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.

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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.

[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.

[roseseule.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

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.

[mmagidow.livejournal.com]

Another vote for new mown grass!

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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.