Some hermit!

[pasithea]

Gah. prickvixen just pointed out that there's a thing in your LJ user info to tell you how many comments you've given/received.

10,938 comments received, 8,980 comments posted

For someone who identifies as a hermit that's pretty sick. Even if my comment time were 1 minute per, that's 150hrs I've wasted and I would be that the average is easily 5 to 10 times that. Not to mention time spent posting and reading comments and waiting for replies (yes, not always but sometimes I'm pathetic enough I sit and reload things periodically hoping for responses)

And that's only LJ, doesn't count art sites and the like.

I've cut way down in recent years. The time I used to waste on MU*s and IRC is horrifying to contemplate. I generally don't bother posting on news sites or youtube or if I do it's a single comment and out. No response. I've limited my contact with flamers and been continually trying to reduce, but you guys are addictive. I want to grind you up and snort you to get that next rush of contact. More and more I've been cutting you with audio books and music or leaving a cartoon playing on a monitor while I'm working but I still waste a lot of time with LJ. (This post being yet another example)

I think I'm going to try a little psychological strategy. Change my password to some long string of gibberish and put it on a post-it note and leave it in my desk drawer at home. If I ever begin to remember it, I'll change it. That will keep me from posting and from reading locked posts and many unlocked posts are less interesting anyhow. I believe I'll also change my friends page to some eye-sore color scheme. bright purple and flashing green text perhaps.

I apologize if this means I go to less frequent contact. I'm still accessible by IM or e-mail, but honestly, I know I'm wasting at least an hour and probably more like 2 or 3 per day on stuff that I could be using for creative endeavors.

On that note, I'll still be posting art and photos because my ego is small and fragile and needs to be stroked periodically but I think there will be a lot fewer of these rambling thoughts and decidedly fewer political rants.

Love and Luck,
DV

Comments

[pseudomanitou.livejournal.com]

2,189 Journal Entries
17,950 comments received
10,509 comments posted

But I don't know what that figure is actually counting.

Example: I have myself listed on my LJ friends list -- so do my own replies on my journal add to the count?

And classify yourself as a hermit all you wish -- but people are social animals by nature. It's how we learn and mentally develop after all.

[zeeth_kyrah]

I rather suspect that comments posted to your own journal do count, even if you don't have yourself on your friends list. After all, that figure is not qualified with "to friends' journals" or anything like that.