Explain to me...

[hmpf]

friends list filters.

I heard of those more and more often recently. I have no desire to filter my friends list - if I didn't want to read the people on there I wouldn't have friended them - but I'd like to understand what exactly it *means*. What do these filters do? Do they filter posts according to who posted them? According to content? *puzzled*

Oh, and look what cool stuff the Frankfurt university institute of archaeology is up to while I'm gone: http://www.heppenheim.de/hessentag/steinzeitbauern/ - I'm almost sorry I'm not there!

Comments

Re: Interesting...

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

LOL...i know it's nice to know *someone* is reading...i sometimes will just pop in and say hi to folks to remind them i'm still around :-)

and yes, i usually filter mentally as well, often by author but mostly by topic...but imagine having flists with 300 or 400 folks...or imagine being ivy blossom :-) over a thousand!!! so you gotta filter...

nd i actually never use it for protection of others...i try not to spam and feel if one post a day is too much then they don't need to have me friended. as I said, personally I use it for *my* protection...for things i don't want public...even to my friendslist but only to rl friends etc.

it's a nice thing to have...and yo can do it for your fflist as well (to get that annoying person off who has every spammy lj in the world friended :-)

Okay, next question:

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

what the frell is a fflist? A Welsh friends list? *g*

Re: Okay, next question:

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

OK, if you have a paid account, you can look at all your friends' friend by simply looking at

http://www.livejournal.com/users/cathexys/friendsfriends (those, of course, would be mine :-).

(since you have a free account, you don't have that option). Anyway, you can filter your fflist as well, i.e., look at whose friends you want to look at (i have one for hp and one for pop, for example).