Another LJ Post

[annamaryse]

So, yet another of my friends "moved" his blog to a different interface. He is cross-posting to LJ, but it's no longer the same. This is the upshot of a comment I just left for him, scrolling back to find the last actual LJ post he made...I wanted to express to you that I'm loath to comment when I see a pile of instructions telling me to log in

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[chaptal]

Sorry to say I'm one of those who left. This place had some bad drama for me and when my paid subscription ran out, it was time to give Blogger a shot. I understand the difficulty of logging into a different interface, really have no idea what to do.

I don't know how to explain the overall decline in activity at LJ. You're far from the only person who has mentioned it. I still enjoy reading here, but between the blog and Facebook, LJ had to be sacrificed.

You lead and have led a life that I enjoy reading.

[annamaryse]

Yep, you are one of the ones I made oblique reference to above... I RSS your blog but thanks to FB, we interface - actually more than before and it's an easy transition... I still READ your blog but most of the time I don't have the inclination to log out of LJ to leave comments on blogs that I RSS via LJ.

The only one I used to do that with is the one who moved her blog to another server so my RSS feed for it broke - and since there was no actual advice of this (she wasn't blogging for the benefit of LJers so how did she know or why should she care if our feeble feed was broken by her server move?) - I actually didn't even know she had moved servers, I had wondered if she'd just stopped blogging.

I never had any problems with LJ drama. I understand that others have. In your case, we interface well on FB and I still enjoy reading your blog posts so it's all good. I was worried when you first announced the switch but our friendship survived intact :)

[chaptal]

I'm pleased that you think the transaction from LJ to Facebook was easy. But the person below who says that our stories are not posted on Facebook is fairly accurate. At least I don't play Farmville!

There are times I miss the LJ interaction, the cascading comments that are just not the same on facebook. There's a limit to how much social networking I can take though. If I ever start tweeting, shoot me ;)

[annamaryse]

Tweeting is like scanning the headlines. It all depends on how one uses it. I used to read headlines by logging into a news hub page. Today, when I want to read news, I have all my news services programmed in to Twitter, and that's where I get my news now. I don't populate my Twitter feed with a bunch of stupid people trying to make 140 character meaningful haiku... those people bore that bejesus out of me. I read my news feeds there, and keep track of one or two friends for whom the brevity of twitter's pace has proven appealing.

Twilight Zone No. 1*

[retro_rider55]

" - so I went down to the sacred store, where I'd heard the music play before

But the man there said the music wouldn't pla-a-a-ay..."

I am sad that alot of chatter has died between me and some early LJ friends, some of this attributable to desertion to Facebook. The content there is just like the Blipverts mentoned in the Max Headroom pilot; no-one tells stories anymore, at least, not on FB. I want to know what happened to you, not how many lost calves showed up on your Virtul Farm.

And, yes, it's easier for an outsider to get into a tyled lodge than to follow the bread crumbs they've left to lead you to their new forum, what ever it is.

(*The title of pilot & first episode was 'Where Is Everybody?')

Re: Twilight Zone No. 1*

[annamaryse]

A lot of my early LJ friends are long gone. Sometimes I wonder about what happened to them. It's a dead end too... I will never know.

[patchworkkid]

I really wish the migration hadn't occurred, but I completely understand why it did. As a result I'm in the same position you are: my friends have divided into two camps. So I created a DW account to keep track of them.

This isn't really something an individual blogger can do anything about.

This reminds me of when everyone left Usenet for LJ. That was a serious downstep IMO. LJ to FB even moreso, if that's what's happening. It's like going from a round-table discussion, to holding forth to a group of select friends, to leaving a note on the fridge.

I intend to stick around. The exodus is a new thing, and the situation may be a little more manageable once everything normalises.

[annamaryse]

Ah yes usenet... them olden days. Each interface is unique and sometimes very much of its time. I held court on IRC at one time, and don't get me started re the BBS days!

I am not sure the internet will EVER become 'normal' - perhaps by its nature it will always be insecure and in flux. Perhaps the best we can hope for is continued connectivity and the ability to exchange knowledge, inspiration, and ideas.

[surrey_sucks]

I haven't been blogging as much as I used to, but that is for many reasons--I'm exhausted, I'm busy, I have writer's block, and lost of bad shit has been happening (oddly enough, when too much bad shit is happening, I don't write about it). But I am making more of an effort to write! I don't want to abandon LJ!

What I like about LJ is the privacy. Oh, wait...

[annamaryse]

We have some control. I even make completely private me-only posts. I set up some filters but for the most part I'm too lazy to use them, leaving posts either open or friends-locked, without picking and choosing much beyond that.

[surrey_sucks]

I make a rare private post, and rarely use filters. Basically, my journal entries are public, or friends only. But because of this cross-posting crap and LJ staff reading locked entries, I feel as if my privacy has been compromised.

[annamaryse]

I think it is tied to age sorta kinda... but that ties in to my molecular density theory. Younger people crave/need/depend upon constant interaction to recharge and keep them focused, whereas some older people are debilitated and put off by that same degree of interactivity.