In response to ‘s question in my interview me post:
Why did you start you LJ? How did you find out about LiveJournal? Who was your first LJ friend?
Unsurprisingly, these questions all tie together. It all started for me, with my officemate at the time, . I don’t remember the exact circumstances, but I started reading her journal. She offered me a creation code, but I declined. I casually read her journal for months. Then, late in my relationship with Mark, while I had many ideas roiling around in my head, I asked her if her offer was still good. I signed on to livejournal in 2002. She was also the first person to make my subscriptions.
I mostly started with my CMU friends, but rapidly branched out to others. A couple months after starting my journal, I made the trek down to DC where I met (virtualexile at the time), , , , , and a couple other gentlemen. They were the first people I met first on livejournal and then later met in real life. It didn’t take me long to start recruiting either. , , and all got codes from me (I traveled across two states to evangelize, though as I recall, it was who did all the driving. =)
Thank you for taking the time to answer. I’m always very interested in how and why people started their journals. When I started mine I never imagined how interactive it would become, and I’m not that interactive. I didn’t have any friends for quite a few months. I received my first friend after I posted some advice in gaysextips.