Alternate Friending. Where we go from here // Yahoo! Let's celebrate Danielle's Anniversary!
Like everyone else, I saw that update in lj_biz. That really makes me consider my options. I already have a couple of mirror journals set up and I am seriously thinking about leaving the site altogether. I have been on LJ for years now and I find it both ridiculous and offensive that fandom is only now having such an issue about all of this suuposed child pr0n we're creating. (Don't get me wrong, we do create chan, but we aren't basing the fiction and artwork off of any reall children.) Now, there have been the occasional troll every now and again that came and stirred things up, but I can't recall fandom ever facing the site iteself turning on us before.
This entire situaion smacks of 'biting the hand'. We pay the bills, yet we have people telling us that they can shut down our journals on a whim. This is not to say that the owners of a website cannot run things the way that they deem fit, but when you turn around and attack a large chunk of your paying population, you're not doing yourself any favors.
I personally have invested plenty in LJ. I have not only purchased paid accounts and extra icons for myself, but for others as well. I liked the accounts so much that I bought them for several of my communities in the past. I have made sure to stay on top of my LJ payments even when I didn't have a job and had to scramble for food to eat, for god's sake! I loved LJ and all of my beautiful icons that much.
At this point, I don't know how much I love the site. It's always given me problems, especially the Scrapbook feature, which is pure and utter crap. But it's gotten better, too. In fact, if it weren't for the Voice Posting feature, I wouldn't have been able to update any of my journals online during those weeks when I worked nonstop. Literally, non-freaking-stop.
LJ has given me so much, that it smarts all the more to see it turn around and take those things away. Three years ago today, I started this journal to keep up with the entries of an artist I loved way back when. On the first anniversary, I didn't celebrate because I was wrappped up in bullshit with ex-friends. The year after that, I just plain old forgot, because I was having too much fun mucking around on other sites.
This year, there is hardly anything to celebrate about being an LJer. Oh, we could celebrate being forced off of the site by flimsy "legal" speak. We could celebrate the encroaching censorship that is causing more wank than any sockpuppet ever has. We could celebrate the fact that a great deal of our creative world has now been uprooted. But why would we celebrate that, you ask.
I started to say something smartmouthed about us not celebrating these facts, but we actually could. There is the future I am now considering. There is the fact that there are other sites we can go to. There is the fact that despite my pervious lack of time, energy, and overall enthusiam surrounding fandom, this mess, the new book, and the new movie have revitalized my passion for characters that I, at one point, felt I was done with.
So, when I sarcastically say that we "could" celebrate, I rather think that we should celebrate. We have InsaneJournal and GreatestJournal both waiting on us. I will leave this journal up, because who knows, I will probably still use it until fandom transfers over and I can get my fixes for felishes elsewhere.
But until I do anything more definite beyond working finding the energy to transfer three years' worth of entries over my hand (or program, if I can find one that I like), I do ask that people friend me at the following places:
InsaneJournal
GreatestJournal
What's funny is that I merely started this entry to say that I had added an InsaneJournal to the list of places that you could find me. But instead, everyting else came out. I can't really peg myself surprised, because this is always the case with me.
Now, if only I could find some place to crosspost this where I could spruce this up into an essay-esque sort of entry and let it run around fandom. After all, I haven't caused nearly enough drama for my liking as of late. = P But I guess that we have more than enough of that already.
Since the library is about to close soon, I'll be off. I work a long shift tomorrow, so I shouldn't be online. Friday looks better, so look for me then. Until Friday, try and stick around, because I'd hate to miss any of you bidding your final farewells to LJ without me sending you at least a small send off. Silence through comments in the past or no, you're all still on my friends list for a reason, and I'd very much like to say at least 'Good bye' before you go.
Danielle
ETA: It turns out that I got my years a bit off. The BS with ex-friends happened in '05. And I have to say that I am rather surprised with everything that went on then that we didn't make Fandom Wank. I don't think. . .
So if you've re-read the entry and wondered why it's different, it's because I edited it to reflect the correction.
This entire situaion smacks of 'biting the hand'. We pay the bills, yet we have people telling us that they can shut down our journals on a whim. This is not to say that the owners of a website cannot run things the way that they deem fit, but when you turn around and attack a large chunk of your paying population, you're not doing yourself any favors.
I personally have invested plenty in LJ. I have not only purchased paid accounts and extra icons for myself, but for others as well. I liked the accounts so much that I bought them for several of my communities in the past. I have made sure to stay on top of my LJ payments even when I didn't have a job and had to scramble for food to eat, for god's sake! I loved LJ and all of my beautiful icons that much.
At this point, I don't know how much I love the site. It's always given me problems, especially the Scrapbook feature, which is pure and utter crap. But it's gotten better, too. In fact, if it weren't for the Voice Posting feature, I wouldn't have been able to update any of my journals online during those weeks when I worked nonstop. Literally, non-freaking-stop.
LJ has given me so much, that it smarts all the more to see it turn around and take those things away. Three years ago today, I started this journal to keep up with the entries of an artist I loved way back when. On the first anniversary, I didn't celebrate because I was wrappped up in bullshit with ex-friends. The year after that, I just plain old forgot, because I was having too much fun mucking around on other sites.
This year, there is hardly anything to celebrate about being an LJer. Oh, we could celebrate being forced off of the site by flimsy "legal" speak. We could celebrate the encroaching censorship that is causing more wank than any sockpuppet ever has. We could celebrate the fact that a great deal of our creative world has now been uprooted. But why would we celebrate that, you ask.
I started to say something smartmouthed about us not celebrating these facts, but we actually could. There is the future I am now considering. There is the fact that there are other sites we can go to. There is the fact that despite my pervious lack of time, energy, and overall enthusiam surrounding fandom, this mess, the new book, and the new movie have revitalized my passion for characters that I, at one point, felt I was done with.
So, when I sarcastically say that we "could" celebrate, I rather think that we should celebrate. We have InsaneJournal and GreatestJournal both waiting on us. I will leave this journal up, because who knows, I will probably still use it until fandom transfers over and I can get my fixes for felishes elsewhere.
But until I do anything more definite beyond working finding the energy to transfer three years' worth of entries over my hand (or program, if I can find one that I like), I do ask that people friend me at the following places:
InsaneJournal
GreatestJournal
What's funny is that I merely started this entry to say that I had added an InsaneJournal to the list of places that you could find me. But instead, everyting else came out. I can't really peg myself surprised, because this is always the case with me.
Now, if only I could find some place to crosspost this where I could spruce this up into an essay-esque sort of entry and let it run around fandom. After all, I haven't caused nearly enough drama for my liking as of late. = P But I guess that we have more than enough of that already.
Since the library is about to close soon, I'll be off. I work a long shift tomorrow, so I shouldn't be online. Friday looks better, so look for me then. Until Friday, try and stick around, because I'd hate to miss any of you bidding your final farewells to LJ without me sending you at least a small send off. Silence through comments in the past or no, you're all still on my friends list for a reason, and I'd very much like to say at least 'Good bye' before you go.
Danielle
ETA: It turns out that I got my years a bit off. The BS with ex-friends happened in '05. And I have to say that I am rather surprised with everything that went on then that we didn't make Fandom Wank. I don't think. . .
So if you've re-read the entry and wondered why it's different, it's because I edited it to reflect the correction.