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On finding people in fandom a decade later
As most of you know, I inadvertently hiatused around a decade ago by dint of being unable to make the leap from LJ to tumblr. As a result, when I jumped back in head-first a little over a month ago, I was trying to find people from information left a decade ago. Some folks were curious about what kinds of response rates I got, so here are some (hopefully obscure enough to not erode anyone's privacy) numbers.
Overall, there were 110 individual people who I was friends with on LJ (who still had accounts and hadn't totally deleted in the meantime). Of these, I tried to reach out to 95; the others I didn't feel like I'd been close enough to to justify reaching out or in two sad cases had become very ill or died in the decade preceding.
Overall, I was able to get in contact with 52 people, just over 50%! This was much higher than I expected going in. Of those who responded, 38 were still active in fandom; an additional four (who I could track down to a new fannish home, but didn't respond to my message) were also active in fandom.
The highest response rate came from email or facebook: 17 people out of 22 that I had emails/facebooks for responded. An additional three people were still active on DW. 28 people had left enough forwarding information (or just didn't... change their nyms) that I could find a twitter/tumblr; of these, 23 people responded to my messages. I ended up sending out 42 LJ/DW messages, nine of which had a response.
EDIT: lol omg, 23/28 is a higher percentage than 17/22 please ... ignore that artifact of aggregating the numbers to make them less identifiable.
Overall, there were 110 individual people who I was friends with on LJ (who still had accounts and hadn't totally deleted in the meantime). Of these, I tried to reach out to 95; the others I didn't feel like I'd been close enough to to justify reaching out or in two sad cases had become very ill or died in the decade preceding.
Overall, I was able to get in contact with 52 people, just over 50%! This was much higher than I expected going in. Of those who responded, 38 were still active in fandom; an additional four (who I could track down to a new fannish home, but didn't respond to my message) were also active in fandom.
The highest response rate came from email or facebook: 17 people out of 22 that I had emails/facebooks for responded. An additional three people were still active on DW. 28 people had left enough forwarding information (or just didn't... change their nyms) that I could find a twitter/tumblr; of these, 23 people responded to my messages. I ended up sending out 42 LJ/DW messages, nine of which had a response.
EDIT: lol omg, 23/28 is a higher percentage than 17/22 please ... ignore that artifact of aggregating the numbers to make them less identifiable.
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