I miss the paid membership. I was thinking about how livejournal makes by far the best way to meet someone online. You get to see how they present themselves to the world. It’s not a short term marketing pitch for something specific, it’s how they are. You can see them over time and gradually get to know them. It still has many of the hideous limitations that being online usually does, of course, but there’s a breadth of contact here you just won’t get in the real world, not on a daily basis. Sadly, without a paid membership, I can’t search the berkeley area or check out my friends of friends listing, etc. Ah well, I’ll get around to it sooner or later, most likely. =)