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<?h1 Features h1?>
<?p Here's an overview of the features that make LiveJournal interesting. Also, be sure to check out our <a href="./accounts.bml">Features by Account Type</a> comparison chart. p?>
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<li>Your Journal
  <ul>
  <li>Entries can include:
    <ul>
    <li>The basics:  subject, text, and date.
    <li>Small pictures used to represent you.</li>
    <li><a href="/moodlist.bml">Current mood
    text/icon</a> and your current music.</li>
    <li>Polls that automatically tabulate votes.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Per-entry security lets you restrict entries to just yourself or groups
  of your friends.</li>
  <li>Comments on each entry support paging and threading (comments replying to other comments).</li>
  <li>A user profile includes:
    <ul>
    <li>A mini-biography.
    <li>A list of <a href="/interests.bml">your interests</a>, another way to
    find other users</a>.</li>
    <li>A link to our text message gateway that won't reveal your cell phone number.</li>
    <li>Who you've befriended, who's befriended you.</li>
    <li>What communities you read and participate in.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Fully integrated <a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/">photo storage</a> with basic image and photo editing.</li>
  </ul>
</li>
<li>Privacy
  <ul>
  <li>You control:
    <ul>
    <li>Who can see each individual entry.</li>
    <li>Who can see your contact information.</li>
    <li>Who can <a href="/tools/textmessage.bml">text message</a> you.</li>
    <li>Who can leave comments, and whose comments are screened pending your approval.</li>
    <li>Who can participate in individual polls.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Ban other users from your journal or community.</li>
  </ul>
</li>
<li>Customization
  <ul>
  <li>Easily modify the look of your journal, using either a template-based
  style system or a higher-level customization wizard.</li>
  <li>For more control, program your own style with the <a href="/doc/s2/">S2
  programming language</a>.</li>
  <li><a href="http://www.livejournal.com/developer/embedding.bml">Embed your
  journal</a> into your own web page.</li>
  </ul>
</li>
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<ul id="features">
<li>Friends
  <ul>
  <li>A built-in aggregator (called the "friends view") shows all of
  your friends' entries in one page.</li>
  <li><a href="/friends/editgroups.bml">Friend groups</a> let you classify
  people for both filtering and security.</li>
  <li><a href="/syn/">Syndication</a> lets you read offsite news sources (RSS)
  just like they were other users.</li>
  </ul>
</li>
<li>Software
  <ul>
  <li><a href="/download/">Client programs</a> (for Windows, MacOS, Linux, and more) let you update
  journals without opening a web browser.</li>
  </ul>
</li>
<li>Social Networking
  <ul>
  <li><a href="/community/">Communities</a> get groups of people with a shared interest together.</li>
  <li>Use the directory to find people by <a href="/directory.bml">region</a> or 
  <a href="/directorysearch.bml">other criteria</a>.</li>
  <li>There are <a href="/stats.bml">over three million other users</a> to interact with.</li>
  </ul>
</li>
<li>Interoperability
  <ul>
  <li>The <a
  href="http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=149">RSS
  feed</a> of every journal lets other sites/tools aggregate your content.</li>
  <li>Full Unicode support allows you to write in any language.</li>
  <li>Our site is available in <a href="/manage/siteopts.bml">many languages</a>.
  </ul>
</li>
<li>Open Process
  <ul>
  <li>Our <a href="http://www.livejournal.org/">open source code</a> means
  anyone can start their own LiveJournal-derived site.</li>
  <li>Our <a href="/community/lj_dev/">open development process</a> lets anyone
  contribute or just watch and learn.</li>
  <li><a href="/support/">Support</a> is self-managed by volunteers who care
  about the site.</li>
  <li>No advertisements, etc.  (See our <a href="/legal/principles.bml">guiding principles</a>.)</li>
  </ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<?p This site was started for use amongst a small group of friends.
The fact that it got so popular without any advertising just goes to
show how cool it is.  Try it out .... if you have any problems or
suggestions on how it could be made better, <a
href="/suggestions/">let us know</a>!  p?>

<?h1 Frequently Asked Questions h1?>
<?p Some <a href="/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqcat=about">frequently asked questions (and answers!)</a> about LiveJournal can be found on <a href="/support/faq.bml">our FAQ page</a>. p?>

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