Livejournal you're scaring me

[bennet_7]

I was just checking out someones user pic page in an attempt to find credit for an icon I liked and discovered that you can now get an email notification if someone uploads a new icon to their user pic page.

Sure some people have excellent taste in icons but if you're just going to go get the same icons as them, you're hardly going to be original and the point of having icons is to personalise your posts.

In the words of Groove Armarda: "If everybody looked the same, we'd get tired of looking at each other."

I think it's just creepy and a waste of programming. Why can't they spend time on useful stuff like making it so that you can edit comments? I'm sure we'd all find that handy.

Comments

[koalathebear.livejournal.com]

Editing comments, a decent search engine for my own journal that can also search comments because the comments are far more interesitng than my own posts but harder to find. I don't understand LJ either sometimes :P

[bennet-7.livejournal.com]

Why they waste time on silly things like this is beyond me. I like the idea of a personal search engine - I never tag posts right so I spend ages looking for things. More and more I just add entries to my memories so I'll know where to find them later.

[violetcreme.livejournal.com]

Here Here !

They take years to do a 'track a post' feature which is surley obbvious, and yet waste their time doing this which I personally find an invasion of my personal account ! Why are my userpics anyone else's business ? As you say, it's sort of creepy.