Who Do You Prefer to Make Friends With? A Poll!

[queerbychoice]

Because I'm curious, and I've browsed you people's friends lists often enough to have seen different befriending trends among different people.

(Note: the first demographic factor below is "age"; it got squashed into the preliminary introduction because LiveJournal's poll maker is stupid that way.)

[Poll #39555]

Comments

[djm4]

What do you mean by 'straightedge'? It's not a term I'm familiar with.

I add people to my friends list for three main reasons, only one of which was in your poll - that I find their journal entries interesting. The second reason is that I know them in real life, and the third is that I want them to be able to read my (infrequent) friends-only posts.

Perceived mental instability is a slight factor, in that I don't want them throwing a massive tantrum based on whether I've added/removed them from my friends list. I Just Don't Get people who obssess about their friends lists to the extent that they notice within hours if someone's added or removed them, but I suspect they have a right to breathe the same air I do. ;-)

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

It means "doesn't drink or take mind-altering drugs, ever." There's a straightedje community, and if you ever come across people whose LJ usernames begin and end with the letter X, that's a common way of marking oneself as "straightedge."

Technically I'm straightedge, but I don't really understand the obsession with marking "X"s all over everything, and would rather not start calling myself xqueerbychoicex just because, well, then I'd probably have to put up with a bunch of weird unfunny jokes like "Really, you made a choicex to be xqueer?"

About the incompleteness of my poll - actually there were at least ten other characteristics that I wanted to include in the poll, but unfortunately the LJ poll creator thingy stopped me at 15 questions and informed me that I wasn't allowed to ask more than 15 questions per poll. It's always imposing inconvenient limitations like that. I'm not very fond of the LJ poll system.