Wasn't it always there? I just checked and mine was set to "male." There's an "unspecified" option too, so you needn't id yourself.

theres lots of teh rumours going around :/ they make me uncomfortable

WHERE WILL I GO IF NOT ELJAY!? :(((

sighs.

what? I don't see any difference. You've always been able to do that. The annoying thing for ME is that you have never been able to search by sex. :-( Which used to be very important to me, until I miraculously found you and hannah and kate and kitkat and m-kat and and and!!! I'm over it now though, since I don't feel a need to search for my soulfriend. ;-)

IIIIIIII think the difference between LJ and myspace is the lack of ease of narcissism, if you can untangle that. LJ is for people who WRITE, although others are attracted to it too. LJ is text-based -- names are text, rather than images. Myspace is image-based, in more ways than one. It's basically just a bunch of userinfos that link to each other. I don't think LJ will ever turn into a myspace -- it would take a hell of a lot of revamping, changing the userinfo layout won't do it. The majority of LJ would have to leave it for it to be more like myspace.

Myspace only appeals to me for the music -- ironic, since so many people complain about the ubiquitous bands. I have found so much awesome music via myspace! I hope hope hope that music takes it over so much that it becomes musicspace. ;-D

hate it! the only way I'd move would be if ALL of my friends moved over, and maybe not even then! Maybe I'd just blog friendlessly. hmm.

the proposed new userinfo design: http://aubkabob.livejournal.com/profile?ver=ng

they say that if they do it, there will be an option to turn it off and stay with the old one. But I like the new one -- I'm just not sure which I like more.

the gender choice was always there - and i did actually have it set to "female" because that info didn't show up on your userinfo and was just for statistical purposes. i've now set it to "unspecified" because of the whole teenybopper ad rumor thing that's floating around. i now also entered in my birthdate and hid it from the general public for the statistics to show that we're not all 18 years old.

hey, there's been http://www.livejournal.com/singles/ for a long time. Nobody uses it, though.

They added a male/female button? WTF? I need to see if mine is marked.

(I never look at my User Info page)

That's always been there. You could choose or just leave it blank.

I've never seen it but I think its a good idea. I don't really think its for anything more than information services. What if a person is a bit squeemish about talking about certain issues with the opposite sex, alot of people here do add me communities and other things where they get or add a buch of people, they don't alway sform a personal bod with them and the topic of gender may never be scanned. Therefore it would be kind of hard to have the person make the decision, we can't do it on icons alone.

The whole thing of myspace is that it tries to relate you to everyone else is, the whole danged extended network t hing just keeps getting bigger and bigger even if you dn't want it to. Also everything has a bictires or almost a rating feature, its just rampid for highschool shananery.



I'm guess I'm either not intrested enough or not popular enough to even hear these conspiracy theories... wow, almost like a mac. hee hee.

Stu-

*shudder*