FAQs, in two different ways

[kate_nepveu]

First:

Springing off a discussion in dw_suggestions, what do you like to see in people's DW/LJ profiles/blog about-boxes/whatever? What are interesting things you've seen people communicate in those spaces? What was really important to you to put in yours? Or if you don't use that kind of thing, do you use anything else instead?

As I said over there, I spent a ridiculous amount of time on my own recent profile revamp (feedback welcome!); I find this sort of thing intrinsically fascinating.

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Second:

Two actual pregnancy-related FAQs, with my usual answers:

Q: How are you feeling?
A: Busy.

Q: What are you having? / Do you know what you're having?
A: A baby.

Preferred, though less frequent, questions:

Q: How are you? / How's it going? / How are things?
A: Busy. (In all likelihood. But at least I won't feel like I've been reduced to my reproductive capacity by the entirely well-meaning, yet cumulatively frustrating, replacement of "how are you" as the default acknowledgment-of-existence to me.)

Q: Do you know / are you going to find out the sex?
A: It's going to be a surprise.

Readercon post tomorrow, I hope.

Comments

[sophie]

Hi! I just came over here from the Latest Things page when looking at the "dreamwidth" tag.

I'm also interested to know what people would want to put in their profiles, so I hope it's okay for me to watch the comments on this post. If somebody doesn't do it first (or if you're going to do it) then I'll probably try creating an informal all-questions-optional questionnaire that people can copy and paste to their bio, since it seems like that could alleviate some of the problems raised in the comments of that dw_suggestions entry!

(Also, I dislike the emphasis on the sex/gender of infants too. Not least that the idea of the traditional "It's a girl/boy!" exclamation would make me want to say "You might know their sex, you don't know their gender." I hope you'll be very happy as a parent, though!)

[kate_nepveu]

Hee. I guess my profile doesn't explicitly say that you can track comments as well as the whole journal, but yes, of course.

Though I suspect it's of far more interest to me than other people who read me.