Birth Date heads up

[caliente_uk]

For some reason none of the birth dates of most of my flist are showing up on their user info. I've just had to change my own profile so that my birth date is showing. This could have implications for those of you who belong to communities with adult content, so it might be an idea to make sure that your birth date is showing on your user info. :)

LJ does some weird things sometimes!

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_jems_/]

This may have nothing to do with anything, but I know I, for one, hid my birthdate when that whole LJ/Vox thing was going around. It was believed that LJ skewed so low, age-wise, because people didn't specify their birthyear in their user info, and therefore a disproportionate amount of people were about 5 years old (I think they used the year 0 for anyone who hadn't specified). In order to give LJ a better concept of the age of their users, many added their birthyear, but at the same time hid their entire birthdate (because you can't hide just the year).

Or it's entirely possible that they hid all birthdates at the same time as they reactivated the navigation strip. Never said they were bright. *g*