Can one troll using LJ Friends?

[barondave]

Twice in the past few weeks I've been Friended by someone I didn't know and had no Friends in common with, who had over 700 Friends. The last one was from Moscow, and her Profile and LJ were in Cyrillic. I foafed a bit, and left a post or two, but nothing ever came of it, and both times I was de-Friended about 24 hours later. Is this common? Has this happened to you? What's going on? How did they find me with ten million LJ accounts to look through?

If you don't know (or if you want something else to talk about), please post the smell you most associate with the month of June.

Comments

tulips

[mle292.livejournal.com]

I friend and defriend for many, many reasons - almost all of them not personal. Sometimes it's just because so-and-so's writing isn't what I tend to think of them as, or because my own belligerence gets in the way and I tend to feel compelled to reply when they post conversations that don't work well for me in this type of forum.

Before the planet warmed up, I remember that the tulips would bloom right around my birthday - June 2. Now that's in early may, but thirty years ago it wasn't.

Re: tulips

[barondave.livejournal.com]

These were odd ones, where I felt they were trolling for something I didn't know. I'm amazed that they can handle 700+ Friends, and pay such close attention... Probably have a lot of time on their hands.

So you don't really have a June olfactory memory, it's more of a birthday remembrance. Fair 'nuff.

[dlacey.livejournal.com]

If it has happened to me I haven't noticed. Other than checking my profile page, which I rarely do, I probably wouldn't know if I'd been friended by someone unless they left a comment.

Oh, and strawberries. Definately strawberries.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I'm new enough to LJ (though it's been more than a year) that I still pay attention to my Profile and such.

I can understand strawberries, though my fruity smell memories tend to be associated with later in the summer. Maybe I just associate picking blackberries in the heat of July/August.

[roseseule.livejournal.com]

Freshly mown hay. I AM a farm boy, after all.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

In June? I tend to associate that with the fall harvest. But I'm from dairy and corn country.

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

I've had someone "comment" on my profile on OKCupid!, which was so pathetically generic that it was obviously a stupid attempt to get me to view "her" page and write to "her," for what sort of scam I know not. I reported this fake user immediately.

The smell is that of the grass on our front lawn, back at the house in Pacific Palisades where I grew up, and lived through June 1969.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Every now and then I get a note from a Personals I no longer subscribe to, usually from a 22 year old from Russia. Flattering, but.

Mmm... new mown grass.

The smell of June

[mplsvala.livejournal.com]

I have no lj expertise to share. I'm still fumbling along trying to locate friends and family, so I'll move on to your second question.

Wet dog gets my vote. In the summers I spend a lot of time taking my dogs to various bodies of water. Shadow, being a big, black, hugely furred dog, gets very uncomfortable in the heat. The only good way to cool her down is to take her to water and let her sit until it has lowered her body temp and then let evaporation keep her comfortable for as long as possible. Amusingly, Buddy, our smaller dog, hates the smell. He's only voluntarily been wet once and he religiously avoids the smell. I don't mind it; in fact, I kinda like it. Probably because I associate it with dogly happiness. A wet lab is a happy dog.

Re: The smell of June

[barondave.livejournal.com]

A wet lab is a happy dog.

I'll take your word for it. I can understand how dogs would want to be cool in the summer, but I tend to let them do that on their own.

[mmagidow.livejournal.com]

Another vote for new mown grass!

[barondave.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons I settled in Mpls (rather than, say, Detroit or even San Francisco) is that the grass is the same color as where I grew up in NY. It smells similar, too.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

June scents: Peonies (cabbage roses) and iris. One was in my grandparents' yard; the other was in ours. If I ever have a garden of my own, I'll probably ask laurel about which one it was (she mentioned something in her LJ), and plant some of the same variety. Oh, and maybe honeysuckle or whatever flowering shrub is currently opening up in the neighborhood right now.

Usually I'm friended by people I actually know (e.g., after a convention) or friends of friends. I've never experienced the thing you had, generic serial frienders. Is that the right term?

[barondave.livejournal.com]

generic serial frienders

I like it. There are some people who just go hog wild with the Power To Be Everywhere. Fine and dandy, but I did my Chatroom Dozens Of Posters Simultaneously a long time ago...

Your scents are close to mine. If I had to pick a scent specifically for June (which is hard and probably unfair), it would be clover. Fresh, cut, clover. Not grass; I dunno. It's a very precise smell.

[invader-tak-1.livejournal.com]

Well I've known you for the better part of twenty years, I'm assuming that despite the icon you know who I am, though I noticed you never friended me back, so I wasn't sure.

I got phantom frinded twice in the last month, first time, but they both seem intesting people so I'm letting it slide till I have a reason to do otherwise.

I can't see that many LJ friends either. I don't really have time for alll the ones I have now.

I'd rather work on quality than quanitity in LJ friends.

[invader-tak-1.livejournal.com]

Oh, June smells, almost forgot, Barbecue!

I'll barbecue in January, but when I smell it from all directions, THAT is a June smell. :)

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Yes, I figured out who you were (since it says so in your Journal entries). Don't worry about me not friending you back. a) I probably will eventually but b) like most of the people of whom I'm Friend of who are not Friends, I duck into your LJ now and again. This is semi-artibitrary on my part. The connection is still there, and your name crops up whenever I go to my Profile page. Unlike dlacey above, I check it frequently because I'm a narcissist to see what's changed and whether I should go a-foafing.

Mmm.... barbecue! (I bet people in different parts of the country have different smells associated with barbecue, depending on the type of wood in the area, and whether zoning ordinances insist on charcoal, what type of braisse is regional, etc.)

[invader-tak-1.livejournal.com]

we are partial to mequite. :)

[sfrose.livejournal.com]

I've only been seriously involved in LJ for a month or so (even though I got my account last summer.) I'm still pleased whenever I've seen that someone friended me back. :-) Yes, I check my profile page often. And there is a utility on mabfan's profile page that can keep track of who has friended (or defriended) you since the last time you checked. (I probably should add that to my profile page...)

Oh, and add my vote to "strawberries." And May is "lilacs."

[mplsfish.livejournal.com]

HI! We have met a time or two and you pop up on my friends comments a lot. So can I friend you? I don't care weather you friend me back. I don't post often.

I check my user info occasionally and recently found that all the people I had deliberately not friended had been friended without my knowing it. I corrected that and changed my password. I now suspect LJ of doing it to get me to change my password to include a number.

I don't have June smell but the one I have been noticing this week is Linden blossoms. So sweet.
Forgive my spelling. It is genetic.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

So can I friend you?

Sure, welcome aboard!

I probably won't Friend anyone for a while, because I just added a bunch o' people, but I'll check in on your LJ now and again. (And I checked your fishclean site: Your Javascript rollovers don't work.)

[dmnsqrl.livejournal.com]

just noticed that I seem to have been friend'd by the cyrillic journal which I suspect you referenced. yeah, no clue.

[dmnsqrl.livejournal.com]

one thought is that maybe this person is seeking out people who reaction-friend semi-automatically hoping to see things in friends-locked posts?

but other than that theory, no clue.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

There seems to be a whole culture of Young Whippersnappers who assume that if you Friend someone, they will Friend you back... and are offended if you don't. Hey, I wasn't like that in High School (which may explain a lot) and I'm certainly not like that now.

I'm still curious as to how this person found our username at all. There are millions of active LJs. Are there stat sheets for Recently Active or Posted More Than Twice This Week?