my goodness

[_rck_]

Has it really been four weeks already? Time flies when you dont have any

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[txgreengoddess]

I have noticed a similar phenomenon with myself. I find Facebook's broader definition of friend is really nice coupled with the larger coverage. I do like lj for longer and more personal posts. I am kinda sad that possibly those I like on lj will convert entirely to FB. Ah well, c'est la vie.

[askesis]

I'm finding Facebook to be a poor venue for longer, more thoughtful posts. It has a bad case of ADD - you go there to find out what people had for lunch or what YouTube videos they're currently watching. When I post something with a longer format, it seems to get passed over. LJ, on the other hand, is a place where people deliberately come to read.

So, my FB community is made up of people I know personally, whether or not they shine in a purely textual context. And my LJ community is made up of people who like to read, write, and think - many of whom I've never met and never will.

[mijopo]

Yeah, what you and the commenters above said. I quite like FB as it certainly allows one to interact with a broader audience and I love it for the ability to give and receive quick updates from people and link pointers (your Sat. night NYT review, for example). But I still use LJ a lot because it's a good place to write longer posts, carry on a good extended conversation (distinct and hierarchical response threads, what a concept!) it has tools to allow me to find those posts back again (tagging, searchability), and I tend to exploit the private post feature a lot too, for mundane things like keeping track of my exercising and/or writing things too unpolished to share or just storing a link I want to save and tag. I quite like each of LJ, FB and Twitter and wish they could each survive serving different roles, but I worry that LJ will ultimately disappear as FB takes over. (See, I've probably already gone beyond what I'd be allowed to say in a FB post.)