Hello, Folks!

[ben_is_crazy]

I kinda gave up the ole LJ for a while, because I generally prefer having a real life to an online one. I still do and yet the online has a draw of its own, I admit. Thank G-d I'm not a WOW addict. But well, I have been reading my friends posts and I remembered what LJ is really here for. It's not here for the good times, who wants to sit at a

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[quailsx]

i disagree. people write all kinds of happy things in their livejournals. mine's about half and half, if you look at it, and i'm pretty damn emo.

My views on LJ and the like:

[anominus]

Livejournal, while host to many biased posts (as it's putting personal thoughts and feelings that are as dynamic as the complexities of anything a human being can create, and so forever changing and never to be quite the same again...), can also foster healing and release that some people deem necessary. Be it happy events that people crave attention for, or sad ones, or anywhere between or far away from. Livejournal is just that, a live journal. Some write their journals as diaries, some as blogs, but lj, gj, myspace blogs, and any other form of online journaling or public such, is made and used as a place to reach out to people. It's what comes of the natural desire to have a true and honest connection with other people. People express with it in different ways, some emo, some cryptic, some overly informational, and some purely basic, etc. But the basic idea for these journaling online things is simple: connection to people that might empathize, or be somehow interested in your personal life. This is something one cannot really get

[anonymous]

Too bad Americans are the most alienated people on the planet, as a friend of mine puts it. It is really sad that we live in a culture in which people seek connections with others and attempt to ease their loneliness by posting on the internet that which they can't say directly to the people who are supposedly their "friends" in a desperate attempt to establish a connection with someone. Studies have shown that people who watch hours of television every day and have no social lives report that they have very active social lives, an indication that they have become so involved in the lives of fictional characters that they are able to derive a fulfillment from them akin to that usually derived from genuine friendships and connections with people. I suspect that the same is true of those who spend hours writing blogs and live journals: studies would likely show that these people believe they have active social lives and many friends even though they go days on end without having any contact with anyone other than through the internet