There is so much wrong with Facebook! I've never liked that site and never wanted to be on it, and I only am on it because everyone else I knew from LiveJournal migrated to that crappy site, and I felt powerless to resist. However, I firmed up my resolve and returned to LiveJournal a couple of months ago, realising that I should do things simply because I want to do them, and regardless of what everyone else is doing. I haven't regretted my decision at all. I find that I can write more freely on LJ and in much greater depth; in fact, writing an LJ post feels a bit like creating a work of art. It is so much, much better than Facebook, plus I see all my friends' posts in chronological order and I'm not subjected to endless fatuous memes. I just wish there was a bit more interaction on here.
I've stayed simultaneously on LJ and Facebook, never joined Twitter. Mainly stayed on LJ due to keeping my "to do" list as a future-dated private LJ post, so I never forgot about it! If only LJ had developed an events calendar and photo tagging.
I have always liked LJ's suitedness to posts with more detail and depth, though I admit I scroll by longer posts. Based on the number of comments I generally receive, I conclude most people are doing the same. I feel able to be more open about personal things on LJ because so few people are reading, though I must say that has backfired on a couple of occasions! Still nowhere near as bad as Facebook drama though.
Yes, one of my main purposes for LiveJournal is for to-do lists, and I've also made a post-dated entry in which I'm listing my assorted minor accomplishments throughout the year, as it's not always clear that I actually am making any progress. I agree too that an events calendar would be useful. I don't know if you were ever on the bloody awful MySpace, but I thought one of the few good things about that site was its 'forthcoming events' thing in which you could list forthcoming gigs and suchlike on your profile page. On the whole, though, I'd rather LiveJournal didn't make any more changes to the format of the site. It was perfectly OK as it was back in 2003 when I fist joined, and as far as I'm concerned, few, if any, of the changes they've made since then have improved it.
As for the drama, I think there used to be quite a lot of that on here, and a lot of fakers and attention-seekers, but they've all buggered off to Farcebook!
MySpace was great for bands, terrible for anything else. Facebook is definitely geared for the millenial attention span. I do like the LJ calendar. Reading back on some of my very old posts made years back, I was shocked at how much of a raging alcoholic I was! Eek!
Getting e-mail notifications of events should solve the invites problem. I'll just have to put them into my google calendar and have the fun of turning up to things, not knowing who else is going, like the old days! :)
I find FB can be a bit hit and miss about actually sending emails about event invites and messages and stuff. (Yet another thing that's wrong with FB. )
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I have always liked LJ's suitedness to posts with more detail and depth, though I admit I scroll by longer posts. Based on the number of comments I generally receive, I conclude most people are doing the same. I feel able to be more open about personal things on LJ because so few people are reading, though I must say that has backfired on a couple of occasions! Still nowhere near as bad as Facebook drama though.
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As for the drama, I think there used to be quite a lot of that on here, and a lot of fakers and attention-seekers, but they've all buggered off to Farcebook!
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Facebook is definitely geared for the millenial attention span. I do like the LJ calendar. Reading back on some of my very old posts made years back, I was shocked at how much of a raging alcoholic I was! Eek!
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And honestly, too FEW events invites is never my problem...
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