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acb ([personal profile] acb) wrote2003-10-24 08:16 pm

More social anthropology

The results of the last poll, so far, have been interesting. According to the first question (from the extensive sample of 22 or so respondents), almost everyone would add real-life friends to their Friends list, followed by strangers with interesting journals, which highlights the ambivalence in the dual people-I-like/feeds-I-read role of the Friends list. It's also interesting that only 5 people would add relatives to the list, and few would feel compelled to reciprocate if friended by someone. Meanwhile, a significant minority (about 40%) use custom security levels to compartmentalise the exposure of adding people to their friends list.

Some of the comments in the post raised some interesting questions on the various purposes of LiveJournals, and the question of intended audience; so I thought I'd run another poll on the subject.

(If you haven't voted in the first poll, it's still open, and may be found here. I'll probably be running more polls in the future, as I've got a few more ideas.)

[Poll #195863]