I have a filter which is only People (with a capital P, people I'm invested in and want to know about their lives regularly versus random peoples that I thought their journal had some cool stuff going on but I only want to check occasionally) and no big comms ever, and that's pretty much my default first tab on Firefox. XD;; I feel like even if I make friends IRL and then discover they have LJs, the ones that I LJ with become my Really Close Friends, because this is my main way of keeping in touch with people (something that I utterly fail at, generally) and knowing people beyond the superficial.

*hikikomori*