diaryland survey
11.02.03 - 2:51 pm

1. What is your name? Jessica.

2. Your age? The big one six.

3. What is your Dland name? wzrdofozfan

4. Why did you choose it? Because I'm a huge Wizard of Oz fan. Obviously.

5. How long have you been a member? Since September 9, 2001. Damn. That's a long time. Over two years. It really doesn't seem like it though. Wow, I'm in a bit of shock because I've been here for so long.

6. How did you find out about Diaryland? Kim.

7. Good experiences on Diaryland? I guess I've gotten to know myself better and I see that I've changed from my first entry to now. I've grow more mature.

8. Bad experiences on Diaryland? Well, some stuff on here starts arguments, but nothing really, really bad.

9. What's the best thing about Dland? It was made by a guy.

10. Worst thing? Sometimes the system is down and you can't add entries when you want to.

11. Have you gotten any friends through Dland? Not really, no.

12. How many Diaryland accounts you have? 2

13. Do you have a story/zine/article diary in addition to your "normal" diary? Yes, it's one of my two accounts.

13. What kind of Diaries do you like to read? One's that are laugh-out-loud funny. One's that have really kick ass layouts too. I think you can tell a lot about a person through their layout.

14. What kind of Diaries don't you like to read? Poetic ones. Dark and somber ones.

15. Your favorite Diaries? Uhm, read my profile.

16. Do you use Diaryland layout defaults, or custom layout? Templates from template makers.

17. If you use a custom-made layout, who made it for you? I don't have one, sorry.

18. If you made your layout by yourself, or if you got a chance to wish for a layout theme when you requested for one, what influenced you, why did you choose to go with that particular theme or thing? If I could make my own layout. It'd be of Judy Garland. I'd go with Judy because she is my favortie actress of all time, and she do it with Frank Sinatra.

19. Do you use the mail forwarding Diaryland offers for members? Nope.

20. What kind of things do you write about in your diary? Anything and everything. I'm a very random person.

21. How often do you update? I try to update daily, but sometimes it just doesn't work out that way.

22. Do you get comments often? [sniffle] No, but I wish I did.

23. When people comment, do they comment the content or the layout?Content.

24. When people comment, do they use the Analyzer, Guestbook, e-mail or other commenting thing? Notes or other commenting thing.

25. Do you have a NotifyList? Nope.

26. Do you have an account from Signmyguestbook.com? Si.

27. Do you have a page at Pitas? What? No.

28. Do you have a personal website somewhere, in addition to your diary? Big fat negative.

29. If so -- is your diary (or diaries) linked from it? Don't have one.

30. Have you met any weirdos during your stay at Dland? Um, nope. That's good I guess.

31. What kind of extra stuff you have on your diary (e.g polls, poems, stories, art...)? Facts, reviews, 100 Things, cast, surveys, other stuff.

32. Do you like to see extra things on people's diaries, or do you think the written content of the diary itself is more important? Oh God, I love looking at other peoples "Extras," I think it tells me more about that person than their entries.

33. Do you have accounts on other diary hivesites such as LiveJournal etc.? Nada.

34. Have you registered your diary to contests like "top 100 diaries" or such? No, because I don't think I'll win.

35. What is more important: writing to your diary or getting hits, comments or becoming well-known on Dland or well-known as a diary writer? I think writing in my diary is pretty important, but I wouldn't mind being a well-know diaryist.

36. Do you know your average hit per day rate at the moment? Nope, but it'd be cool if I did.

37. How many people are linking to your diary from their profiles at this moment? Twenty-eight last time I checked.

38. Do you know why they link to you? I paid them.

39. Are you a Diaryland Gold Member and if you aren't, would you like to be one? I am not one, but I'm too poor to be one. It's a lose-lose situation.

40. If you are a Gmember, why did you sign up for it? And if you aren't but would like to, why? I want to be one, damnit!

41. Why did you originally sign up for your diary account, has the reason changed during your stay at Dland? For the hell of it. Plus, I can type faster than I can write. It has changed. I like it now. I love writing in here. It's like I can let my emotions out more, or something "deep" along those lines

42. If you can track down referring urls, what is the most common search that generates your site in the results? It's my diary.

43. Have you ever been quoted or submitted material to quoted? Nope, I'm not that cool.

44. Have you eve submitted and/or been published at oddgoogle? Nope, not that I'm aware of.

45. What makes you link to other diaries? They write well, they are funny, or they are interesting.

46. Diaryland ad banners, good or bad? Good. Someone of them are hilarious.

47. Diaryrings for Gmembers only, good or bad? Bad. I've always wanted to make a Judy Garland diaryring beause no one else will. Damnit.

48. Diaryrings, good or bad? Good. Some of them are very very interesting.

49. Old Analyzer vs. new Analyzer, good or bad? I have no idea what an Analyzer is, sorry.

50. Do you wish to evolve as a writer through or using your diary, or do you just write? Well, I'm trying to improve my diary and make it more interesting. So, I'm going to go with "evolve."

51. Do you ever plan what to write, or is it all spontaneous? It's usually spontaneous, but on a dialy level.

52. Has writing a diary helped you in any way, or have you had negative results? It's a mental thing. It lets me "say" stuff I noramally wouldn't or it helps me get stuff off my cheast.

53. Has your diary ever been found by someone you've written about? Um, yeah.

54. Have you ever shown your diary to people you've written about and if so, what did they think? I've never "shown" anyone, they read it...so..they've "shown" it to themselves.

55. Have you written a cast, terms list or anything similar on your diary for readers to catch the meaning of words and names in your diary? I have a cast page.

56. How do you review your own entries -- what kind of entries are good ones, what bad? After I add an entry, I read it on my diary and fix some stuff if it doesn't turn out the way I want it.

57. Have you ever deleted your own entries and if you have, was there a particular reason? Yes, I didn't want my parents to read it if they ever read my diary in the first place.

58. Why did you choose to write a diary online, instead of keeping a locked book under your pillow, so to speak? My handwriting sucks, and I can type faster than I can write.

59. Do you think there's a big difference between online and offline diaries and if so, what do you think these differences are? I think "offline" diaries are much more personal than online diaries. I still do write in my "offline" diary.

60. Any final comments, thoughts, words of wisdom or random babble about Dland, other diary hive sites, diary-writing online or in general? I have to go to work now.

miles of fire

Previously:
here - 02.01.06
boo. - 11.03.05
leaving. - 07.16.05
lovely - 05.07.05
Perfection - 03.12.05