Friends means you have a special page where you can see an aggregated view of all your friends' posts. For you, that's http://www.livejournal.com/users/deerdancer22/friends, though it isn't terribly exciting until you friend more people. Here, look at mine or Ian's for better examples.
Receive comments will show you direct responses to things you post -- anywhere. In your journal, friends' journals, strangers' journals. There's a tool LJ recently added: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/recent_comments.bml that can give you an idea. Latest Received is every comment that you've received in your journal. If you turn on the email notification, you would be informed of those via email every time you receive one. Latest Posted are comments you post elsewhere. If you turn on the email notification, you will also get and replies anybody posts to any of those. Such as this comment I'm writing in response to your comment, even though it's in Ian's journal.
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Re: I'm In
Date: 2004-09-26 09:35 am (UTC)Friends means you have a special page where you can see an aggregated view of all your friends' posts. For you, that's http://www.livejournal.com/users/deerdancer22/friends, though it isn't terribly exciting until you friend more people. Here, look at mine or Ian's for better examples.
Receive comments will show you direct responses to things you post -- anywhere. In your journal, friends' journals, strangers' journals. There's a tool LJ recently added: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/recent_comments.bml that can give you an idea. Latest Received is every comment that you've received in your journal. If you turn on the email notification, you would be informed of those via email every time you receive one. Latest Posted are comments you post elsewhere. If you turn on the email notification, you will also get and replies anybody posts to any of those. Such as this comment I'm writing in response to your comment, even though it's in Ian's journal.
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That's known as a cut tag. Preceed the part you don't want to show with <lj-cut> and use </lj-cut> and the end. Here's the FAQ: How do I use an lj-cut? What are the other LiveJournal-specific tags? that explains it in more detail.
Good luck!