The battle lost?

[akedz]

Methinks the battle of Live Journal versus Facebook may be lost at the moment. I see a lot more activity over there these days.

Comments

[chriswicke]

The Facebook is a better interface for a lurker like me. It's easy to just pop on and say blah on The Facebook.

I feel a need to post something a little more substantial here when I do post. Right or wrong that's how it be.

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[cgronlund]

Curt...I'm glad that I just swallowed coffee before reading this! :)

[goth_poser_guy]

I lament that lj is a bit of a desert. I enjoy pithy posts as opposed to quippy scribbles on a wall.

[mfelps]

My only problem with Facebook is that there's no good way to make a substantial post. Other than that, it's just easier. Instant gratification over substance, the war we're losing on every front, I suppose.

[akedz]

Um, use the provided FB Notes app for long text posts. You can even link it (as I have) to LiveJournal and everything you post on LJ will automatically appear on FB.

[cgronlund]

I still prefer LJ

[akedz]

I think there may be a bit of LJ snobbery in that assessment of yours. There is no technological hurdle to posting long texts in Facebook. I see Finn over there frequently posting his occasional long essays and I and others seem to find time to read them (yourself included as your comments there indicate). While the top level of FB is indeed for the attention impaired, there is acceptable depth available there.

I don't see Facebook as just a Twitter substitute; I see Facebook as a consolidated one-stop site that replaced my need for Twitter, LiveJournal, YouTube, Flikr, and all those other content-specific publishing sites. And to ease the transition, it cleverly links to most of those places as well in a Subscribe/Re-publish mode.

It is what you make it, man. Dig deeper. You have a wider audience over there, I bet.

[cgronlund]

I think there may be a bit of LJ snobbery in that assessment of yours.No snobbery at all--I just use LJ and Facebook for different things (just as I use Twitter for something else entirely). Like you say: It is what I make of it, and I choose to make lines between how I use each place; otherwise, I should scrap everything but Facebook

[akedz]

Next I expect to hear you say "And what's with this whole XBOX thing? Checkers and kick-the-can were good enough for my grandparents and they're good enough fer me. GET OFF MY LAWN, YA DURN KIDS!"

[deaconmc]

ive been ignoring everything, so no snub against lj proper.

i dont mind leaving my lj link on fb, and if people want to come here, they can. but my rants arent for the 50 people on my fb list, although theyre all certainly invited.

i like perusing the fb updates and quickly see what people are up to, but again, i dont want all of those people reading about personal frustration im having or the neon liquid sarcasm i spray on everyone here.

also, no fatties! ha ha i keed.