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- Your Journal
  - Entries can include:
    - The basics: subject, text, and date.
    - Small pictures used to represent you.
    - Current mood text/icon and your current music.
    - Polls that automatically tabulate votes.
  - Per-entry security lets you restrict entries to just yourself or groups of your friends.
  - Comments on each entry support paging and threading (comments replying to other comments).
  - A user profile includes:
    - A mini-biography.
    - A list of your interests, another way to find other users.
    - A link to our text message gateway that won't reveal your cell phone number.
    - Who you've befriended, who's befriended you.
    - What communities you read and participate in.
  - Fully integrated photo storage with basic image and photo editing.
- Privacy
  - You control:
    - Who can see each individual entry.
    - Who can see your contact information.
    - Who can text message you.
    - Who can leave comments, and whose comments are screened pending your approval.
    - Who can participate in individual polls.
  - Ban other users from your journal or community.
- Customization
  - Easily modify the look of your journal, using either a template-based style system or a higher-level customization wizard.
  - For more control, program your own style with the S2 programming language.
  - Embed your journal into your own web page.

- Friends
  - A built-in aggregator (called the "friends view") shows all of your friends' entries in one page.
  - Friend groups let you classify people for both filtering and security.
  - Syndication lets you read offsite news sources (RSS) just like they were other users.
- Software
  - Client programs (for Windows, MacOS, Linux, and more) let you update journals without opening a web browser.
- Social Networking
  - Communities get groups of people with a shared interest together.
  - Use the directory to find people by region or other criteria.
  - There are over three million other users to interact with.
- Interoperability
  - The RSS feed of every journal lets other sites/tools aggregate your content.
  - Full Unicode support allows you to write in any language.
  - Our site is available in many languages.
- Open Process
  - Our open source code means anyone can start their own LiveJournal-derived site.
  - Our open development process lets anyone contribute or just watch and learn.
  - Support is self-managed by volunteers who care about the site.
  - No advertisements, etc. (See our guiding principles.)

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