LJ's "My Stats", since everyone's asking

[bee_york]

For everyone who was asking about stats--it's a way to see who visits your journal, and when. Likewise, those people see when you visit THEIR journals. It's weird, because you see names of people peeking in on you who you did NOT expect to see there! I was very surprised at some of the names I saw--people I did NOT think would be reading my LJ, but, well, there ya go. You can turn the notification off so that your visits to other journals aren't recorded, but then you can't see who visits yours. It's a tit for that thing, ya know? When this thing was first implemented, it was set automatically that your name WILL show up, so you had to change it manually if you wanted to keep your visits private. I don't know if it's still like that, though. I think so though, because sourdick, you mentioned not knowing what it was, but yours is set to "on" because I can see your name recorded when you visit my journal. Same for many of you on my f-list.
If you want to check your settings, go to the "journal" header and select "My stats". It's the last choice on the list.
If you turn it off, then your visits will remain private. You'll be recorded as "invisible user".
I have LOTS of "invisible users" listed under My Stats.
Your name doesn't show up if you are reading through your f-list. It only shows up if you actually go onto that person's journal.

Comments

[lucyskydiamonds.livejournal.com]

Mine was pretty much all "invisible user" hits.

[bee-york.livejournal.com]

Isn't weird though?! It's freaky to see how many people read my LJ. I had NO idea. I'm glad it's 50% friends-locked now, that's for damn sure. Hahaha.

[lucyskydiamonds.livejournal.com]

I bet a lot of it are friends you actually know who either aren't logged in, or people who click on your name cause of communities you belong to. Which usually means they get the dull posts anyhow, since anything truly interesting is locked.

[bee-york.livejournal.com]

I don't know why everyone thinks the stuff I lock is "juicy" or "interesting", lol. That's not how I go about choosing the posts I lock, not at all. I'll explain which posts I lock and why, but I'll have to do that in a...you guessed it, locked post. ;)

[sarcasmoqueen.livejournal.com]

I think it's stupid that they don't count when you look via your friends list. That's where I look at 99% of what I read!

On a different note, I did get your PM, but I accidentally deleted it - :-s
Things are looking better, though, and I'll send you either a PM or an actual e-mail soon...

I miss you guys!

[bee-york.livejournal.com]

I miss you too. :/ We really need a date sometime soon. I know you guys can't do something during the week and that more or less applies to me too, but what about next Friday? I think that's the 15th. Are you doing anything then?

[sarcasmoqueen.livejournal.com]

I might have a meeting with my co captain for softball that night, believe it or not (it's JANUARY for Christ's sake!), but we are going to see Cabaret at McGill on Saturday - would you guys like to join us? We have only reserved our tickets, not bought them, and we can have dinner together 1st at Reuben's or something... website to reserve seats:
http://auts-cabaret2010.blogspot.com/ and of course a FB group for further info:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=194476299239&ref=mf

[bee-york.livejournal.com]

Omg yes yes yes! (Don't we do this every January? It's like a TRADITION! lol)

Anyway yes, 100% yes. :)

YAY!!!!!!

[sarcasmoqueen.livejournal.com]

YAY! We can chat during the week to arrange meeting!

[bee-york.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. :)

[rilms.livejournal.com]

6 of the 8 people on my list are "Invisible guest"

I'm tempted to upgrade just to get the other stats...

[sourdick.livejournal.com]

Yeah I figured it all out , its super creepy~

[leftof-thedial.livejournal.com]

I can't get mine to work, it keeps telling me to make myself visible, but I thought I had. :(

[lostsailors.livejournal.com]

I remember that coming up and though I had SEVERE morbid curiosity to see who was on my journal, I said no because I like to go and read way too many random journals for it to be cropping up. Mine doesn't show up for you, does it?

[bee-york.livejournal.com]

Nope, it doesn't.
I check out TONS of journals every day, but I don't really care who knows it, lol. Something funny that I've noticed about My Guests right away (I kept calling it My Stats on this post, which I don't think is the actual name for it...) is that if you check out a stranger's journal, they'll see you pop up and then they'll do the same. Or vise-versa. Which makes sense to me! ;)