I tell you Internets

[dreamer_easy]

I dunno if you can do this without a paid LJ account, but you can get a notification when someone adds you as a friend, which is great, because you can go check out their journal and stuff. However: you can also set up notifications which tell you when someone defriends you. Do not do this. It leads to paranoia and nail-biting.

In other news: does this icon with Mr Spock actually make any sense? I'm not sure if it's clear what the joke is there.

Comments

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

I certainly understand it.

And yes, too much focus on friending and defriending is bad (which is not to say I don't indulge).

[tysolna]

The icon makes perfect sense! I giggle every time I see it.

[antiwesley.livejournal.com]

the scanner is casting blue on Mr. Spock's face.
The arrow points to the scanner, showing that it's a BSOD from Windows.
It's quite humorous, thinking that the Enterprise ran on Winblows.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[zeusgirl.livejournal.com]

Yes, you can do it without a paid LJ account. I can vouch for that.

And, no, I don't quite get the joke in the icon.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

It's the infamous Windoze Blue Screen of Death. :)

[alawston.livejournal.com]

I'm still crying after you defriended me at some point last year :(

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Easily fixed!

[alawston.livejournal.com]

Yays!

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

It's the Blue Screen of Death! Although I may be cheating a bit because I've seen the larger version.

[drox.livejournal.com]

Yes, the icon makes sense, and I get it/like it. Keep it.

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

I adore that icon. It took me a minute at first glance, but when I looked a second time I got it.

He looks so vexed, too. ^^

[browneyedgirl65.livejournal.com]

I can't see it clearly, but it sure looks like the blue screen 'o death Spocko's looking at there which makes me smile every time...

[ianracey.livejournal.com]

Personally I can't remember the last time I got a blue screen of death, but it was probably at least five years ago. I'm guessing most people don't really get them any more.

So while I think the icon is funny, and a lot of other people clearly do too, as the years go by you'll probably have a larger and larger percentage of people who don't get it.

If you're thinking in terms of the really long game, that is.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Okay, I don't get it. I'm not a big Star Trek fan. Miniscle indeed.


Then again how many people recognise the person in my icon? Probably none.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Your LJ name is a bit of a giveaway.

[wyldemusick.livejournal.com]

BSOD. I know it well, alas. I'm a past master of causing my system to BSOD (I actually had an earlier computer set up to show a red screen for those crashes, which utterly confused people.)

I use Semagic to keep track of friending/defriending. I don't get overly paranoid over being defriended, to be honest. Or over not being friended back. I do sometimes get twitchy over people friending me out of the blue, but there's usually a reason when I get like that.

[fizzixrat.livejournal.com]

The icon makes sense...though I'm sad at the though of the [i]Enterprise[/i] computer running windows. I'd much rather the screen said "segmentation fault (core dumped)". ;)