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cyanidebonbon

A serious question for once ;)

Feb 19, 2010 00:36

Alot of times I find myself unsure of what to write (or rather, whether to write about my crazy life or protect the innocents no doubt corrupted in my wake) or whether anyone's even reading this anymore. Have you truly all defected to farcebook or do you linger still, like I do, in the lost annals of LJ land ( Read more... )

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nemesis_to_go February 19 2010, 08:49:53 UTC

Everybody seems to be saying that LiveJournal is dead these days, but I'm not so sure. My LJ seems to be busier than ever, although mainly with people looking in from outside, as it were.

My most recent post got 996 views (only 171 of which were from LJ users, which is interesting), and generated a thread of 10 comments from 5 people (one of them being me, but it still counts). Not bad for a rather random post which I only made to fill the gap because I can't put up any photos at present while I'm remaking the back end of my website. When I do start flinging up the pix, the stats will probably go haywire.

I think this is reassuring in a way - it proves that Customers Follow Content. Build it and they will come, write it and they will read it.

But it does seem that a great deal of LJ's traffic now is coming from non-users. People who have Friends-only journals, or other suchlike restrictions, might indeed have seen it all go quiet as their friends up and leave, and non-LJers can't look in to replace them. Which begs the question, ( ... )

nemesis_to_go February 19 2010, 08:55:41 UTC

Oh, and in reply to your post (as opposed to my own stupid ramblings) -

1 and 5, please!

oh yeah! cyanidebonbon February 26 2010, 14:21:45 UTC

I didn't realize so many people were interested in my circus/acrobatics training! And yes, you should totally join facebook to become a fan of yourself, there's something ridiculously funny about that.

Lollypops and Nightmares,
Rainbow Blight

haha! point made! cyanidebonbon February 26 2010, 14:20:27 UTC

it's funny because right after I made this post Warren Ellis had posted something about how he was thinking of stopping reposted his newsletter to LJ and got a whopping 186 comments in reply. I guess it's not that people are gone... they've just become lurkers! :-p

I have a doozy of a post coming up about my last show! Imagine this situation: no soundcheck had, we realize as we are about to go on that something is wrong with our drums. How do we solve this problem? Do we cancel the show? Stay tuned for the next thrilling episode to find out!

Lollypops and Nightmares,
Rainbow Blight

inflatable_fly February 19 2010, 10:24:19 UTC

1,5 and 6, please ;)!

Thanks for the reply! cyanidebonbon February 26 2010, 14:28:00 UTC

I have a good post along the lines of 1 coming up.

Lollypops and Nightmares,
Rainbow Blight

dolston February 19 2010, 13:13:02 UTC

I'm still here. Not sure if I am a good person to yell you what you should write as I don't post very often.

thank you! cyanidebonbon February 26 2010, 14:28:45 UTC

even if you don't post often, it's good to know who's still around ;)

Lollypops and Nightmares,
Rainbow Blight

kittiethedragon February 19 2010, 14:07:12 UTC

I am here. I will -always- be here.
Watching.
Waiting.

>_>

Alas, I cannot make it to the show sunday! I will however reply to your questionnaire wit the answer: All of the above!

you missed cyanidebonbon February 26 2010, 14:22:39 UTC

the most unusual show we've ever played. I will do some postinating about it later.

Rock on,
Rainbow Blight

Re: you missed kittiethedragon February 27 2010, 09:46:24 UTC

I am too eager for this post.

Also, you can make it so posting to LJ auto-cross-posts to a Farcebook account, I have that set up. Then all you have to do is check your wall every couple days and you can otherwise remain ignorant of the damned thing.

volksjager February 19 2010, 14:52:55 UTC

Depends on ones POV I think...