A lite trim, turned into a major whack.

[johno]

~75 folks and communities removed tonight.

Of the folks I deleted, none had friended me back and most were inactive.

I still have 348 friends and commuities, so I'm not at a loss for journals to read.

Comments

[abenn.livejournal.com]

Good Lord! How do you keep track of anyone with so many journals to read? I'm already having trouble with the comparatively paltry number of friends I have now.

friends

[jvcdrew.livejournal.com]

hey i read you all the time!

you rock dude!

[johno.livejournal.com]

I'm an Addict, but I know how to control myself.

Heavy use of filters and nifty LJ features.

I have the following filters:

Core: Read most often.
Comms: Communities I read most often
Photo: Natch
Non-Work: Communities and folks whose content is...
uuummmm.... not appreciated at work.

I also used the "show=" feature to present only communities, people or syndicated feeds. ie:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/johno/friends?show=P

C for Communities
P for People
Y for Syndicated feeds

I'm also ruthless after a trip or break from LJ.

I'll go all the way back to play catch-up for my core people & communities filters, but I rarely go back more then 100 posts in any other filter or "show=" setting.

This all boils down to my rarely ever looking at my full unfiltered friends list.

[abenn.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I use lots of custom filters myself (I especially like my Comics page) and I have direct links to the filters from all my journal views... but it still seems overwhelming much of the time. It's good to find out how someone else does it.

Whoa!

[admiralmemo.livejournal.com]

I never knew about the "Show" option. That got rid of a bunch of filters I set up. Thanks!