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I'll leave the profound post to someone else to write, but in the meantime I've been looking at my friends list, which currently includes 27 different people (not counting myself). And I got to wondering...
How many of my LJ friends have I met in real life?
Answer: 10 (37%). For this purpose, 'met' is a very flexible term, ranging from a single conversation to lifelong partnership, but words must have been exchanged, at least. Thus, I'm not counting
lamentables or
nineweaving, because although I've been in the same room as them (in my pre-LJ days), I don't think we had a conversation.
(I do enjoy meeting LJ friends in the flesh, by the way - as I and
lady_schrapnell did the other day with
lilliburlero. And I'm really looking forward to meeting
emmaco when she comes to England.)
How many did I first meet through the internet (excluding email)?
Answer: 23 (85%). Almost all of them. The only exceptions I can think of are
fjm,
gerald,
sdn and
drasecretcampus.
How many did I get to know through LJ?
Answer: 12 (44%). The other main source is the Diana Wynne Jones mailing list.
I'm a relative LJ newbie, and my friends list isn't that large, but I'd be interested to know if these proportions are typical. (Maybe it's also relevant that 25 (93%) of my friends are female.)
How many of my LJ friends have I met in real life?
Answer: 10 (37%). For this purpose, 'met' is a very flexible term, ranging from a single conversation to lifelong partnership, but words must have been exchanged, at least. Thus, I'm not counting
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How many did I first meet through the internet (excluding email)?
Answer: 23 (85%). Almost all of them. The only exceptions I can think of are
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How many did I get to know through LJ?
Answer: 12 (44%). The other main source is the Diana Wynne Jones mailing list.
I'm a relative LJ newbie, and my friends list isn't that large, but I'd be interested to know if these proportions are typical. (Maybe it's also relevant that 25 (93%) of my friends are female.)
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Date: 2007-07-28 10:57 am (UTC)It was at the IBBY conference when DWJ was 80.
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Date: 2007-07-28 05:06 pm (UTC)I have met 54 (75%) of my list in real life.
I think I met 8 of these (11%) in real life before being aware of them via email lists or LJ (a couple of the most recent ones I may have seen commenting in other people's journals before I met them, but I wasn't really conscious of them until meeting face to face).
53 (74%) I met through the Blake's Seven fandom, mostly through the email lists at Lysator and Freedom City, though a few I may have first encountered at conventions or through partners I knew on the email lists.
11 (15%) I met through LJ, including a couple I met in a Blake's-Seven-on-LJ context, but I'm assigning them to LJ because I didn't meet them via the lists or conventions.
Oh, and 51 (71%) are female, and I thought that would be higher...
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Date: 2007-07-28 05:21 pm (UTC)I didn't mean to take so long figuring this all out!
Date: 2007-07-28 06:00 pm (UTC)69 (46%) journals belong to people I’ve never met long enough to have conversations with.
34 (23%) belong to friends I first met in real life.
40 (27%) belong to
The remaining 7 (5%) are non-Milliways friends I met first on the Internet; 5 of those are scholars in my field who I met at medievalist meet-ups or formal academic conventions.
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Date: 2007-07-30 01:56 am (UTC)