To Be Discontinued...

[ded5850]

I must say, I hate livejournal. I never really wanted one. The idea of reading people bitch about how life is so awful and how nobody likes them and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. It was enough to turn me away from it. But, I ended up conforming to the masses, as many did. Partly because so many of my friends had it, and it became a sort of

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[cameron_romance]

ha ha ha ha ha

[seed_head]

you're good

[ureyeslingernme]

MMM...I definitely saved that comment on Microsoft Word. :-)

[timgrounds]

Dude, that is why I have used this thing twice in six months, and neither of those posts were about my life. I feel exactly what you're saying, but I also feel that my life is so uninteresting that I'd hate to bore people with my day to day. Which is the mirror to what your problem is. Livejournal is either a cry for help with ones enourmous emotional traumas or it's a meme, quiz, or "I got my oil changed". Not that there is anything wrong with that. Livejournal is ultimately the next stage in human evolution where we present ourselves to society (annonymously), even global society, and we give them the opportunity to avoid us. We've developed the tools to reach everyone but given them the ability to turn us off. It's true reality TV, and reality is rarely as entertaining as "scripted reality" unless you're Danny Bonaduce. I don't think people are bad for wanting what Livejournal provides, but I've found it just isn't for me. I just read what my friends have to say, and yes it's mostly things I already know because they're my

[ded5850]

Appreciate the respond. It really is just becoming " A thing you do." you don't need to post on it, of course, but it just becomes what you do out of habit. You're either spilling your guts out, or simply talking about getting your oil changed. A replacment for genuine human interaction. Now, is this for the better?