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Other people's friends
Feb. 13th, 2005 10:03 pmSo in a fit of wasting time, having had the neighbours over to dinner tonight, I went to look at friends' friends lists. And, frankly, Oh My God.
Now, I like my friends a lot. In person, they're interesting and fun and creative and stimulating and all that stuff. I even like some -- many, no doubt -- of my friends' friends. But reading my friends' friends livejournals is excrutiating. People whining about every detail of their lives. Complaining about service at restaurants, about how they met this guy but maybe they didn't, how they are totally unique and nobody understands them, how they're totally unique and everyone understands them, how they're totally unique and everyone understands them except, and this is the big except, their mother. Plus, they saw this movie, ok, and it was kinda good but kinda not and there was this guy in who was really good but not as good as he was in this other movie.
...waiit just a second.
They aren't all scripts, are they? I swear, several friends of friends journals are clearly not actually written by human beings. They're all ljBots. (Dammit. Googling ljbot brings up Eugene's post as the first coherent hit on ljbot. And he means a crawler. I mean like a chatterbot. An angstbot, that's what I mean.)
Ok, that makes me feel much better. I'm pretty sure I can write a program that'll take a bunch of LJ posts and then generate angsty posts by some creative replacing as I'm going. Hmm... sounds like at least one of my other projects.
