Cadbury's Creme Egg - how do you eat yours?

[pez]

This is purely out of interest, and randomness.

How do you read your flist?

Me, at least once a day I would scroll down until I see the last entry I've read before, and then scroll down a bit more... probably a day's worth or so, and see if there are new comments to those entries, if there are marked edits/changes to them, and read the comments depending on what post it was. Once I've done that I go back up to read the recent ones until I reach the newest entry.

But I don't think that's how other people read it... seems like some friends read from the top ie the most recent one, and they don't bother checking for edits and comments? Probably depends on how large your friends list is, I suppose...

Comments

[chinawolf.livejournal.com]

If I have unlimited time, I start reading the whole flist from the newest entry backwards. I skip lots and lots of entries, though - many communities do not even get a glace unless a word (like 'nc17') catches my eye. I read a bit backwards when I have reached the last already read entry, but not very far - 133 friends plus 46 communities make for long skips if I've been sleeping for longer than six hours. I open every cut that I want to read in a new window, and I open every entry I want to comment on in a new tab. It varies whether I read/comment on them immediately or go through the flist first and then go through the tabs.

If I have limited time, I go through my 'core' group, which excludes many communities and includes only people that I usually at least glance over. That group has about 100 LJs in it. I move through it backwards until I hit the last few entries I already know, open cuts which I usually read but do not comment on.

I do not bother checking for comments or edits unless I commented somewhere anonymously which happens about once a year, or if there is a specific post which gathers a lot of comments which I may be interested in reading even two days after the post was made. That's what comment emails are for, and those do usually do their job after all.