Yet Another Misguided (?) LJ Experiment

[detroitfather]

So, I was digging through my yahoo mail account, and found that I had 12,958 stored messages which contained the words "LJ Comment" in the title.

I dug through some of the older ones. One thing that struck me was how high a percentage of it was "hate mail" stemming from my interactions on christianityI checked on a number of ex-LJ Friends, to see if their

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[bojojoti]

LJ has changed. It used to be a gathering place for ideas and interaction. So many of the people I enjoyed that relationship with have left LJ for various reasons.

Rather than journaling lives, discussing ideas, or sharing talents and information, LJ seems to be used more and more as a venting space, which could explain mass exoduses! I'm all for venting when needed, but it has to be in the context of a relationship that shares the good, too.

[castanea_d]

I am no longer on LJ except to keep up with LJ friends. It has become too loaded with advertisements, and too unfriendly to use without a paid account.

[ldwheeler]

Hey - thanks for the mutual add. What prompted my request was how amused I was to see this post -- because I've been doing the very same thing, making my way through my never-cleared-out YahooMail account, reading old LJ threads when I come across the notifications, seeing who's here and who's not and checkin' out their journals ... and wondering much the same thing.

But I still likes me some LJ, although I rarely post anymore ... and hardly ever poke around in the christianity community. My tapering off on LJ seems to have coincided with two things: 1. Getting a position at work that demanded more of my time AND that I dearly loved so didn't mind putting in the time; and 2. yeah, Facebook.