review_you

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So, yesterday my journal was reviewed here. The point results were "61/100 points, but not as bad as you'd think."

:blink: Ok then. So according to the point score sheet I fall within "So So".

As far as the review goes, it's neither good nor bad. I got the sense the reviewer couldn't seem to make up his/her mind about me.

And I found that pleasing. Because no sooner did I sign up for the review_you than I forgot about it a few days later. And a journal written for me doesn't require that anyone else like it, or have any strong opinions about it.

I wondered if I'd be upset or happy when I eventually got my LJ reviewed. Now, I'm finding myself mostly indifferent, with slight whimsical desire to argue, but on the whole-- in a good mood, because reading their review left me with no desire to change my journal in any way.

I'm glad I did the review thing though. Not for what it did or didn't point out about my journal, but because the result moves me to nothing. Which doesn't say anything about them, but says somethng to me about myself.

Edited to add:

One thing has stuck in my mind, though. The reviewer said I had a "an amusing and sometimes dark" sense of humor, but that I didn't use it often enough.

I amuse myself all the time with my own journal. I suppose this means not everyone finds funny what I find funny. Which ought to be an obvious fact in and of itself about anyone, and does not particularly surpirse me at all, but still it makes me think. It makes me wonder what kind of things the reviewer finds funny, and if I had had another reviewer, if he or she would have found me hilarious or unspeakably dull and flat.

People are weird in the ways that they differ.

Comments

i agree

[stardustic.livejournal.com]

I agree 100% with you. You really shouldn't care that much about what others think if you are doing it for yourself. But I understand why you would be curious about what others think about your journal. SOmetimes I wonder the same thing. I also agree with the fact that your rating does depend on who does it.
***Monique****

Re: i agree

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Thanks for commenting. :) I was actually suprised that the did mine so soon-- when i signed up like a month ago I was something like 100th on the list.
I like the LJ picture you used--its cute.

Re: i agree

[stardustic.livejournal.com]

Aww thanks
****Monique****