I thought so. I looked at my friends page... it's the same person/community posting about Lolita/Dollfies. I mean... it's not that they're doing something wrong... everybody else is just gone.
Despite seemingly hitting the critical mass as far as mainstream involvement goes (I blame reddit), the novelty of memes and lolcows kinda wears off after a while (speaking of which Tristan Peterson unblocked me :3) and all you're left with is this utilitarian timesink for pictures of your food and ~life updates~. I pounce on any opportunity to think out loud on someone's facebook status or whatever and honestly, I wish more people would come back to LJ to rant their shit (or perhaps I just don't follow them) because all the stuff on facebook doesn't require a second thought. The culture of facebook has become some circulation of ideas where it's appropriate to laugh at something, maybe even share it but any intellectual dismantling of some witty statement or whatever is sooner met with "oh you" than any thought of argumentative engagement or even "wow, I hadn't thought of it like that". People ridicule the whole "hang on, someone is wrong on the internet" thing but arguing is an important part of personal and cultural development.
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Despite seemingly hitting the critical mass as far as mainstream involvement goes (I blame reddit), the novelty of memes and lolcows kinda wears off after a while (speaking of which Tristan Peterson unblocked me :3) and all you're left with is this utilitarian timesink for pictures of your food and ~life updates~. I pounce on any opportunity to think out loud on someone's facebook status or whatever and honestly, I wish more people would come back to LJ to rant their shit (or perhaps I just don't follow them) because all the stuff on facebook doesn't require a second thought. The culture of facebook has become some circulation of ideas where it's appropriate to laugh at something, maybe even share it but any intellectual dismantling of some witty statement or whatever is sooner met with "oh you" than any thought of argumentative engagement or even "wow, I hadn't thought of it like that". People ridicule the whole "hang on, someone is wrong on the internet" thing but arguing is an important part of personal and cultural development. I
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I loved the gradual chorus of 'meaningful' updates too, but by the same token anywhere you can place a large amount of text at once is bound to become a "life details" embellishment circlejerk where everyone eats thesauruses and shits the contents into their posts http://clydev.livejournal.com/23494.html... )
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Not dead, though tertiary education is making its best attempts to change that. How's tricks, guy?
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What is up, fag? I'm still clinging to this sinking ship. You can't rant on tumblr like you can on elgay.
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