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alisa_ivanovna

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Jan 04, 2013 21:37

I remember when LJ was wonderful. I had amazing creative LJ friends who posted art, music, wonderful facts, thoughts, musings, photographs. There were great fights (and not miserable squabbles) and people would find each other though common interests and mutual friends. All that has not been true for a very long time. I realize that is obvious, but ( Read more... )

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maybeegrrl January 5 2013, 05:45:42 UTC

What to do?
stay.

It would be horrible to lose you here!

alisa_ivanovna January 5 2013, 23:14:40 UTC

awww :) ok, I'll stay for you!

mamaracha January 5 2013, 17:30:09 UTC

I also hope you stay. It is true that LJ became a popularity contest and a forum for asking stupid questions that can be answered by typing them into Google and making sure everyone knows how much better you are than them :). But the good things (like meeting new people) are still happening, and musings still show up - yours, for example!

alisa_ivanovna January 5 2013, 23:18:06 UTC

All right. I'll stay just for you :)
But you have to keep writing.

kidvertigo January 5 2013, 20:00:40 UTC

SO I guess my point is that I am not sure why I am still here after ten years. Some of it is nostalgia. Some of it is the few amazing people I found and don't want to lose. Some of it is habit. I find that my need and desire for exhibitionism that initially excited me about this kind of forum has all but expired. For most of it I simply don't have time.

Not to mention FB.

couldn't agree more

still i'd be very glad if you could stay )

alisa_ivanovna January 5 2013, 23:19:19 UTC

ok. I'll stay just for you. because I love you so.

kidvertigo January 7 2013, 14:33:34 UTC

))))

kichiro_sora January 7 2013, 20:13:17 UTC

Beautifully said. I don't know the answer either. But most of the missing things you mentioned are still there. It's just more difficult to find :)

alisa_ivanovna January 11 2013, 16:06:21 UTC

All right, I won't give up hope :)

sephardic February 19 2013, 02:54:49 UTC

so. tonight, sister, i am having my Very Occasional catching-up session on the livejournal time (sometimes it involves being mildly drunk like now). i loathe the facespace appliance. but i have also resigned myself to having to look at it every blah-number-of-days as it's an event invitation machine and other things.

don't have a deeper reply to your conundrum, but i do know this: discovering your posts tonight has made me glad i visited.

LJ is (still!) a unique forum and has the right functionality. the sad part seems to be that, hand-in-hand with Everyone's switch to The Other Modes; the content and the selectiveness has changed as well. the medium is the message.

the hold-outs who still stubbornly hang here in Journal-Space are, evidently, voting with me that this place fosters a smarter, richer, more thoughtful sort of interaction. maybe the oldie crowd has become boring - but it's who we are.

sk

p.s. -- also, get off my lawn.

alisa_ivanovna March 3 2013, 14:42:51 UTC

glad you are here as well!

lawn? huh?

sephardic March 3 2013, 22:32:40 UTC

the phrase "get off my lawn" defined at urban dictionary:

A tagline added to posts that reveal the author's age, which is higher than he/she would otherwise care to admit. It plays on the cliché of the elderly yelling at kids who trespass on their lawns.

example of usage:
"You've got it easy with broadband. When I got my first AOL account, I had a 14.4K modem that I paid $150 for. Now get off my lawn! :-) "