but since I always have more time to read on the weekends, it didn't really occur to me that most people didn't.
I'm lucky enough to have a job that allows me lots of time to roam the net, so for me, it's easier to read during the week; the weekends are busier and spent away from the computer mostly.
However, I'm also talking about what I've seen on lists and ngs and now LJ - posting goes down on the weekends, whether from malaise from the work week, excitement about the weekend, limited access for some people...
Then again, I'm sure other people have exactly the opposite experience. *g*
Now, there's a lot of the same info that you'd chat with your co-workers about: the weather, your lunch, your sprained ankle.
And it's not like there's anything wrong with that, but it's getting harder to separate signal and noise, at least for me.
Hmmm... I find that the venue has changed, but that I'm probably doing as much skimming as I did prior to LJ. I deleted a lot of chatter from mailing lists and killfiled a lot of annoying and pointless posters on newsgroups. Now I set my LJ friends filter and avoid the cat stories and the politica/war talk, and I find I'm not as resentful of it, because it's not coming into my inbox, exciting me with that "12 new messages" and then only 1 turns out to be fic or interesting discussion.
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I'm lucky enough to have a job that allows me lots of time to roam the net, so for me, it's easier to read during the week; the weekends are busier and spent away from the computer mostly.
However, I'm also talking about what I've seen on lists and ngs and now LJ - posting goes down on the weekends, whether from malaise from the work week, excitement about the weekend, limited access for some people...
Then again, I'm sure other people have exactly the opposite experience. *g*
Now, there's a lot of the same info that you'd chat with your co-workers about: the weather, your lunch, your sprained ankle.
And it's not like there's anything wrong with that, but it's getting harder to separate signal and noise, at least for me.
Hmmm... I find that the venue has changed, but that I'm probably doing as much skimming as I did prior to LJ. I deleted a lot of chatter from mailing lists and killfiled a lot of annoying and pointless posters on newsgroups. Now I set my LJ friends filter and avoid the cat stories and the politica/war talk, and I find I'm not as resentful of it, because it's not coming into my inbox, exciting me with that "12 new messages" and then only 1 turns out to be fic or interesting discussion.
Does that make sense?