Schools

[raven]

You can add what schools you went to in your userinfo now, apparently. I was surprised that it hadn't already been done, but I added Merchants' for approval. With all the apostrophes. Just a heads-up so no-one else has to bother.

Edited to add: Does it have "the" at the beginning? I just realised I have no idea.

Edited again: Just remembered there used to be an LJ comm for people who went to my school. Judging from the info page most of the members have deleted their journals. Anyway, what boggles me - I can see that people joined who didn't go to Merchants'. People in America or somewhere actually used to join and say "hi, i'm new, what's Merchants'?" Wha-huh?

Comments

[shipperkitten.livejournal.com]

I just saw that, and had a quick look. Mostly Universities up at the moment, though not many. But I'm not sure I want people to find me that way, I'm happy keeping LJ seperate to the outside world...

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

You're flocked already, right? I don't know... so many of my friends have been met through LJ that I'm all for it. Plus there already is a community for my school. :)

[shipperkitten.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I am - it's nice to know who that someone's not lurking! But it's annoying when someone you meet offline that you don't particularly want to let know everything about you finds it, and starts pleading to be allowed to read it...

[quackaquacka.livejournal.com]

No, it doesn't.

(Have "the" at the beginning, that is.)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it? I just thought... what does the sign outside the school say? I always thought that had "the" at the beginning.

[quackaquacka.livejournal.com]

Not according to the school letters, no. But I could be wrong.

[dougs.livejournal.com]

The instructions on the screen tell you not to put in "the".

[rosariotijeras.livejournal.com]

The community for my school got spammed once because of a band we'd put for interests. Strange thing. Or I thought so!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was happening to us, too. I loathe comm spammers with a passion. Graargh.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

I have vague memories of having added schools to this once before....

Ah well, we shall see.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that a sort of testing-the-water type thing? I can't remember very well either...

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

I suspect that it must have been - seems off that they didn't use the list of schools from that for the starting point for this, though!

[leyo.livejournal.com]

More random have-you-met-this-person stuff. Is your school Merchant Taylor's? I knew a girl who used to go there, then she moved to London for sixth form (I went to school with her). El, short for Eleanor.

And there is no way I'm adding my school to that list, heh. I know a whole bunch of people who have LJs (which I found -and- read, lol) but I like having my secret online world which nobody knows about. Well, with one exception, but she's more like an online friend who happened to go to school with me.

The whole school thing seems a bit disorganised, though. London is listed under No State and under Surrey (with different schools under each) and Oxford University is listed twice with a whole bunch of different people in each.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is, but there is more than one. Ours is in Crosby. Don't think I knew an Eleanor, so I'm not sure it's the same school.

I found LJ through school and my first LJ friends were school friends, so I guess I'm a special case.

That really bugs me! I wish you could weed through and make corrections, like on Wiki.

[leyo.livejournal.com]

Oh well, I thought it might have been an amusing coincidence. Especially since she'd told me some funny stories about the school, mainly involving live sheep pranks and carp in the swimming pool.

Yeah, my friends all considered the internet to be major nerd territory when I start going online. It was always my safe geeky haven, so I'm still reluctant to have much contact with RL people online -- for some reason I find it really weird. But now the internet is becoming so integrated in people's lives, it's a bit harder to keep that separate online persona. Not that I ever behaved very differently online, it was just ... a different sphere of my life.

*agrees that it is very silly* Hopefully it will get in such a state that they decide to organise it properly. It would be good if they could at least make a correct list of English cities and counties (likewise for other countries).