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Jan. 26th, 2012 01:53 pmThere's been a bit of talk recently about a Livejournal renaissance. It mostly goes like this:
"I've looked at a lot of other social networks. And the time I've spent elsewhere has made me remember what was great about Livejournal."
What's great about Livejournal seems to be mostly that yeah, all your old friends who joined ten years ago have accounts. And the filtering features pretty much work. It's a good place for thoughtful longer format posts, and discussions, and people aren't posting nearly so much cheese sandwich stuff. And it's not all of the other sites.
Compared to Facebook and G+? Sign me up for a LJ renaissance. Seriously. I like my community here. (I'm counting Dreamwidth here, really, though I haven't been doing anything with my Dreamwidth account.) I like the style of communication a lot more than FB. (I am fond of twitter, but it fills a different niche for me.)
It's not a perfect platform, and it's not a perfect administrative system. And here's where the mixed feelings come in - honestly, in terms of how it works and what it's trying to do, I'm far more interested in Diaspora. It's not entirely found its feet, but I can support it structurally, and I'm actively interested in its future.
But Livejournal is where my friends are. (Okay, I have a lot of friends on Diaspora as well. But while I have more contacts on D* than I do on FB, say, only about 10-15% of my D* contacts are people I really know. Whereas most of my LJ friends are. Some of that is time, of course.)
So... Well. I'm trying to be around. I'm a pretty lousy blogger right now (drugs, spine, ugh, I'm seeing the surgeon next week) and my attention is a bit split, but I am reading, and I am actively trying to find some kind of balance between the old and the new here.
Or, y'know, y'all can join diaspora. That would be the awesomest.
"I've looked at a lot of other social networks. And the time I've spent elsewhere has made me remember what was great about Livejournal."
What's great about Livejournal seems to be mostly that yeah, all your old friends who joined ten years ago have accounts. And the filtering features pretty much work. It's a good place for thoughtful longer format posts, and discussions, and people aren't posting nearly so much cheese sandwich stuff. And it's not all of the other sites.
Compared to Facebook and G+? Sign me up for a LJ renaissance. Seriously. I like my community here. (I'm counting Dreamwidth here, really, though I haven't been doing anything with my Dreamwidth account.) I like the style of communication a lot more than FB. (I am fond of twitter, but it fills a different niche for me.)
It's not a perfect platform, and it's not a perfect administrative system. And here's where the mixed feelings come in - honestly, in terms of how it works and what it's trying to do, I'm far more interested in Diaspora. It's not entirely found its feet, but I can support it structurally, and I'm actively interested in its future.
But Livejournal is where my friends are. (Okay, I have a lot of friends on Diaspora as well. But while I have more contacts on D* than I do on FB, say, only about 10-15% of my D* contacts are people I really know. Whereas most of my LJ friends are. Some of that is time, of course.)
So... Well. I'm trying to be around. I'm a pretty lousy blogger right now (drugs, spine, ugh, I'm seeing the surgeon next week) and my attention is a bit split, but I am reading, and I am actively trying to find some kind of balance between the old and the new here.
Or, y'know, y'all can join diaspora. That would be the awesomest.
