Another LJ Toy (Paid Users Only)

[rejectomorph]

I've just been having fun with Brad's latest addition to the site: People who are popular with your friends but are not on your friends list. (This is a link to the actual feature, by the way- a link to the announcement is in the next paragraph.) Turns out that Brad himself is #7 on the list the link turns up for me. Interesting, but it makes me think. When I checked the friends lists of the users who appeared on my list, the same group of people kept showing up on them. If people start using this thing to find new friends, it has the potential to be a real clique-maker. It makes me just a bit uncomfortable. But, as I said- interesting.

By the way- the announcement was posted in news. I don't have News on my friends list (it isn't updated very often, and it's easy enough to click the link to it that is on the top of the bml pages) but 11 of the people on my friends list do, (as this clever little proggie showed me), so they have already seen this announcement.

Comments

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I agree... oddly, a few of them *used* to be on my read-daily list, but didn't sustain my interest.

diff'rent strokes!

[rejectomorph]

I've tried to keep an eclectic friends list, with a large variety of people. And when I look at a friend's friends page, I like to see a bunch of people who aren't on my friends page. It keeps things lively.

Re:

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

nothing wrong with that!

I've stumbled more nifty people via - friendsfriends than by poking the random link. :)

[eeklectic.livejournal.com]

awwww, i can't use it cause i'm a poor free user.

[polonius.livejournal.com]

It's a fun little toy, but I find it obscurely irritating that the person on the most of my friends' friend lists is-- me.

Gratifying, but not very helpful. You'd think Brad would have programmed it to omit you yourself.