Generally I don’t use the Friends page on my LiveJournal account much. I follow people’s blogs through Google Reader, and in many ways I’d rather not know the things that people put behind Friends-locked posts. I certainly never use them myself. If I’m going to put something online I will do so publicly (and under my own name). However, I know that friend lists are important to people like writers who live by their celebrity, so I’m about to go through the process of friending everyone whose LJs I read through Google Reader. If I happen to turn up on your friends list and you are wondering why, this is the explanation. I don’t expect you to friend me in return.