Six Degrees of LJ Separation

[davidschroth]

Recently, a bunch of friends have come over to the Dark Side and opened LiveJournal accounts. This prompted me to take a look at my friends list, after a long period of neglect. And I found that I'd been listed as a friend of someone that I couldn't identify, at all. Which is puzzling - I think I'm boring, and most of my posts are pretty boring, and I don't know why someone who doesn't know me would want to read what few boring entries I make.

But there it was - some fan in Sweden had added me to their friends list.

I have a loose e-mail acquaintance with a couple of Swedish fans - John Henri Holmberg and Arvid Engstrom, IIRC. This is a consequence of my work as Junior Assistant List Administrator in Training for the Timebinders e-mail list. But this person doesn't appear to either John Henri or Arvid.

So I'm not sure how or why they linked to me, but I think it's pretty cool. And they certainly (from my very brief reading of their entries) seem to have what I consider fannish concerns and attributes.

Comments

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Ahrvid Engholm, he corrected to be polite.

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I was pretty sure I'd mangled the pselling pretty badly, but I don't have easy access to Timebinders at work to look up the correct spelling.

[thette.livejournal.com]

Hi! *waving*

I used to read rassef when I had more spare time. So, from Kate Nepveu's (who I know from rasfwr-j) journal I found Mary Kay. Then, one day, I went on a spree finding people from the group and I looked at their friends lists.

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

Hi, yourself. *Waves back*

I was wondering who the vector was...

Life has a way of springing pleasant surprises every once in a while; I think this qualifies.