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WHY AM I AWAKE. Damn you, hangover and consequenting nap at 9pm! But on the bright side, I got drunk dialed at 2am by Theo, my childhood friend and neighbor, who now lives in Philadelphia and wanted to tell me that he had a big crush on me in like sixth grade and unrelatedly thinks I have grown up into an awesome human being. All in all, a very

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Twitter is pretty much a weak version of LJ with fewer characters.

Don't knock LJ!
It is dead, but I still marvel at it.
I've met 'people' through other mediums, but it never sticks.
LJ is different. I don't know why or if that's coincidence, but it's something.
I look at all the crap on the internet now and I always say to myself that generally the same thing could've been done on LJ 7 years ago (exception for Google Wave?). Alas without the people it's something of a moot point.

I think the words are the worthier part to writing people.
If you have to go to all the bother of sitting down-pen-paper-stamp-post-office, you're likelier going to say something of actual substance than most email, much less text messaging.
'I thnk u r OK!;-)' ugh {eye-roll/smirk}

Not so familiar, but I thought LJ was the capital of slash?

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Yes, that has been the general opinion of Twitter. I once attempted to stumble around that god-forsaken integrity trap and could not understand the purpose of its existence. I mean, people update like a sentence, right? And there's nothing else? Just random sentences from random people? WHAT IS THE POINT? Maybe I'm just old-fashioned.

I agree, LJ was and remains sort of sweet. Back in the day, I remember there being a lot of imitators, and it was EXCLUSIVE for a while. Like, you either had to pay to sign up or have a friend who already had a journal so they could give you a fancy access code to start your own. Oh man did I feel cool once I got my mitts on a code. Hoooooo, boy.

LJ certainly USED to be the capital of slash. I have no idea if slash is even popular anymore. But one of the more recent episodes of How I Met Your Mother (a CBS sitcom that I really like) mentioned fan fiction and I was like :O whaaaaaaaaaat national recognition! I mean, not that mainstream people knowing about fan fiction suddenly makes it cool or anything

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meh, Twitter's not as bad as people make it out to be.
(contrarian 180˚ {smirk})
I guess most varying inter-webs have different uses. Twitter is good for sharing links and the obvious brief status updates.

I guess my complaint is the whole idea of 'social' interaction / person-to-'person' is front and center on LJ, every other thing seems to not foster that vibe in quite the same way.

People like twitter 'cause it's 'quicker'.

Yeah in retrospect, I really like the whole code thing.
People were more invested. Though that doesn't make you money, but little does on the internet so … {shrugs}

Even now when I encounter an LJ link on delicious it's almost always fan-fiction. No idea if said communities are growing or shrinking.

As you suggest, maybe LJ and the like aren't losing people but everyone we 'know'/'knew' is getting older.
(assuming they weren't that way to begin with)That typically means people are busier, which allows for less time to contemplate. Thus a preference for brief snippets on twit-book vs. posts and stories on

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I would agree that the more popular social networking sites are more geared towards the short and sweet rather than the in-depth kind of connection that was possible with LJ. Although, I remember quite a few LJ folks I used to follow who rarely updated with long-winded posts, or who rarely updated anything at all, and just used their journals to read their friends lists and presumably did all their conversing through AIM or some other instant chatting program. So I mean, you never had to post anything more detailed than a brief status or link or whatever, it was just more common to write more. Nowadays the option to write extensively is almost eliminated. Facebook has notes, but nobody really sees them unless you specifically tag them in one or they are actively searching them out