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jducoeurI confess, I have paid precisely zero attention to the LiveJournal concept of "Social Capital" -- I didn't actually know what it meant until I looked it up just now.
That was prompted by the brand-spanking-new LJ homepage that was just announced, which shows your "ranking" in the social capital metric on it -- and said that I was #199 in the rankings. Which is, I confess, a tad startling (I post erratically enough that I wouldn't have expected to be in the top 1000), so I went and took a dig at the rest of the list. It seems to be real, although I still have no clear sense of what it *means*. But for giggles, here are the other journals I recognize in a quick skim of the top 500:
#4.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
seanan_mcguire
#7.james_nicoll
#9.girlgeniuscomic
#27.filkertom
#36.autopope
#62.siderea
#95.ginmar
#223.lyonesse
#224.woodwardiocom
#227.usernamenumber
#282.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
ceceliatan
#318.rigel
#323.teddywolf
#342.plumtreeblossom
Really, the most disconcerting part is that I've *met* the majority of those folks, and a few are old friends of mine. And while a part of me has a little ego-boo squee of being relatively high up in a very long (400k) list, mostly I suspect it reflects the gradual loss of ground as folks abandon LJ to Facebook. (Plus, I note that a number of the folks that I would expect to be high up don't show in the ratings at all, presumably because they've turned the feature off in the privacy settings --siderea was the only one I specifically searched for who showed up.) So there's a definite "big fish in small pond" sensation to it...
That was prompted by the brand-spanking-new LJ homepage that was just announced, which shows your "ranking" in the social capital metric on it -- and said that I was #199 in the rankings. Which is, I confess, a tad startling (I post erratically enough that I wouldn't have expected to be in the top 1000), so I went and took a dig at the rest of the list. It seems to be real, although I still have no clear sense of what it *means*. But for giggles, here are the other journals I recognize in a quick skim of the top 500:
#4.
seanan_mcguire#7.
james_nicoll#9.
girlgeniuscomic#27.
filkertom#36.
autopope#62.
siderea#95.
ginmar#223.
lyonesse#224.
woodwardiocom#227.
usernamenumber#282.
ceceliatan#318.
rigel#323.
teddywolf#342.
plumtreeblossomReally, the most disconcerting part is that I've *met* the majority of those folks, and a few are old friends of mine. And while a part of me has a little ego-boo squee of being relatively high up in a very long (400k) list, mostly I suspect it reflects the gradual loss of ground as folks abandon LJ to Facebook. (Plus, I note that a number of the folks that I would expect to be high up don't show in the ratings at all, presumably because they've turned the feature off in the privacy settings --
siderea was the only one I specifically searched for who showed up.) So there's a definite "big fish in small pond" sensation to it...