A schools list, and an invite-a-friend feature? Doesn't this look like, OMG, ICQ!??!?

[pez]

Right, regarding this new "schools" thing on the LJ userinfo page. I'm sure some people find it useful, but to me, it's a complete waste of time and effort. Schools are not countries, so many of them open and close every year across the world. They're relying on the users to keep the list updated, but they go and verify stuff (otherwise I'll list Seigaku there for Tezuka's info page!) and I mean... I just don't want it there. I don't want it to say "none listed" as if I haven't finished filling in my info. It should just not be there if I didn't list anything, like the "interests" option. Urgh.

This is starting to become like ICQ info page! >:E

And for US, fine, list it under provinces. For other countries, follow their system for god's sake. You don't say Linc is the province of Lincoln, and Scot isn't short for Scotland. This is using American standards in places that don't apply and it's stupid, not to mention arrogant.

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[fic-faery.livejournal.com]

Eww I didn't even notice that. Shows how closely I look at info pages.

That is sort of stupid. I don't want to list my school, and I don't need some random school thing sitting there stating none. *bothered by this now*

And you mean you can't list Seigaku. For shame.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

we arent the only ones thinking that way. Hopefully they'll give an option to turn it off later...