LJ Analysis, before 1 year is up, inaccurate but keeping it for further reference

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Your Livejournal Analysis

Your Livejournal's Age

According to the information you provided, your Livejournal was created on 2002-02-24, meaning that your journal has been around for 320 days. What does this mean?

You are in a fairly common group, with an LJ age of 6 months to 1 year. There's a decent chance that by now you are experiencing some kind of journal burnout, and may be less enthusiastic about the whole thing as you used to be. Perhaps you post less often than you used to, spend less time reading friends' lists as you used to. Maybe you even consider deleting your journal from time to time, or at least let it sit idle.

Your Livejournal Friends

Now let's talk about your friends list. You indicated that you have 39 LJ friends.
A good, considerable number of friends. This list probably represents a spectrum of both your good close friends as well as a number of passing acquaintances. A few of them might be folks you met through LJ, or simply journals that you found interesting, as well as adding random people back who added you at some point in the past. A fairly reasonable friends list.

You also have been listed as a friend by 40 users.
That's a decent amount of people paying attention to your journal. By now your journal is fairly well developed, and so is the list of people who watch it. You've kept your journal interesting enough to keep your friends watching, as well as a few people that are sure to have picked up on it randomly along the line. You might get a few more followers as time goes on, but hey, you are right where it's expected.

Finally in this category, you have a friends to friends-of ratio of 0.975.
This is an average ratio, meaning you have nearly (or maybe exactly) the same number of friends as people who have listed you as a friend. There's a good chance you add back everyone who has added you, and only add people who haven't added you if they are a good friend and chances are they'll be adding you back anyway.

Your Posting Habits

You have indicated that to date, you have made 469 entries into your Livejournal. This gives us an average post rate of 1.465625 posts per day.
By updating your journal at least once a day, and from time to time even twice, you view your journal as something of a news outlet for your life. You almost never miss an opportunity to keep your journal appraised of what's been going on in your life. You probably also post the occasional silly webquiz or something like that to flesh things out. In short, you make good use of your Livejournal

Your Commenting Habits

According to your information, you have posted 896 comments and have recieved 943 of them over the lifetime of your journal. Let's see what this information can mean.

First of all, this indicates that you have been getting an average of 2.0106609808102 comments for every Livejournal entry that you make.
With an average of at least 2 comments per post or greater, you enjoy a healthy dialogue with your friends and get a lot of response to what you have to say. You might also be posting those silly web quizzes, or making entries that are so interesting or so unusual that people can't help but to comment. Either that, or you just have a buttload of friends.

A more fair measure of how many comments you get might be your average number of comments per post per friend, which is 0.051555409764365. This may seem low to you, especially if you have lots of friends.

The final statistic is the ratio of your comments to comments you get. Your ratio is 0.95015906680806. The higher the ratio, the more talkative you are compared to your friends, comment-wise.

That's it for now! Perhaps there was something insightful in this analasys, and perhaps you learned absolutely nothing. Feel free to post your results on your own Livejournal, and invite your friends to take the Livejournal Analysis today!


My thoughts on the above analysis

Well, some of that is spectacularly inaccurate. For instance:

There's a decent chance that by now you are experiencing some kind of journal burnout, and may be less enthusiastic about the whole thing as you used to be.

Most of you will have noticed by now that this is emphatically not the case. I lurve my LJ and am well on my way to my one-year anniversary. I rather think that this statistical analysis is kinda skewed because I'm listed in the "6 months to a year" category, whereas my one-year anniversary is just around the corner. That may have a lot to do with it.

In other news, I have not once considered deleting my LJ, and I only let it "idle" when life gets spectacularly out of hand.

I think there should be an extra category in there for whether or not you have a paid account. I hate to say it, but I do think that having a paid account often means you'll be paying more attention to your Journal than someone who doesn't have a paid account. Not necessarily, of course: there are presumably a lot of folks out there who just plain can't afford a paid account and lurve their LJ as much as I lurve mine. But still.

I suppose the "use of my LiveJournal" is pretty on the mark, even if it makes me sound horrendously boring. ;)

Ditto for the "friends" part, except that I'm not sure that people "can't help but comment," on my entries. Seems a little extreme to me. ;P The comments section of my LiveJournal is fun, but I really try not to pay attention to it in terms of quantity. I mean, would it really make a difference if I had 45 comments on every one of my entries?

Probably not.

Toddling off for breakfast now.