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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 [livejournal.com profile] lamentables or [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] lady_schrapnell did the other day with [livejournal.com profile] lilliburlero. And I'm really looking forward to meeting [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] fjm, [livejournal.com profile] gerald, [livejournal.com profile] sdn and [livejournal.com profile] 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.)

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Date: 2007-07-28 10:57 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] lamentables.livejournal.com
We've actually had lunch together - with [livejournal.com profile] fjm - and I'm pretty sure there was conversation then :)

It was at the IBBY conference when DWJ was 80.

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Date: 2007-07-28 03:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com
My goodness, so we have! I was thinking of when I saw you give a paper at Worldcon two years ago (in the same panel as [livejournal.com profile] brisingamen). But I've only just recently realised who you were in RL, and I'm still assembling the puzzle pieces...

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Date: 2007-07-28 09:01 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] lamentables.livejournal.com
I never gave that paper, so if you thought you had a hole in your memories, rest assured. I got bogged down and bowed out at the last minute.

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Date: 2007-07-28 03:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com
I'm not a numbers person, but that sounds proportionally right.

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Date: 2007-07-28 05:06 pm (UTC)
ext_6322: (Numbers)
From: [identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com
I've done a quick count of the 72 individuals on my list (excluding duplicate accounts and LJ status) and can offer the following figures:

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)
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From: [identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com
The overlap between the 54 I have met in real life and the 53 I met through B7 email lists and conventions is 46; this slightly exaggerates the dominance of B7 relationships in my real life, because one of the reasons why I settled on LJ was that so many friends from the B7 lists had already migrated here (and many of us are not very active in that fandom any more). People I know in other social contexts are far less likely to be on LJ.
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From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
There are 150 personal journals on my friendslist. To get that number, I have discounted all duplicate journals, all roleplaying journals or journals that only contain fiction, all journals that lack any personal information (e.g. [livejournal.com profile] halig_gewrit) and all journals belonging to me.

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 [livejournal.com profile] milliways_bar players who I grew to know on the Internet and met in person at game conventions.

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)
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From: [personal profile] jadelennox
At one point I tried to follow the blogs of all DWJ listers with LJs but it's gotten too heavy.

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