Comments | hikethekilt: the book of love is long and boring; no one can lift the damn thing

hikethekilt

the book of love is long and boring; no one can lift the damn thing

Apr 05, 2009 23:36

LIVEJOURNAL, YOU USED TO BE MY PLAYGROUND BE THE BEST THING EVER. And now... Now, you're only mildly interesting. What happened? Where did our love go? I thought I had given up and moved on, but I just can't. Was it me, LJ? Was it something I said, did, etc ( Read more... )

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tameiki April 6 2009, 12:56:53 UTC

For a lot of us real life stuff kinda stole all the free time we used to use to play on the net and LJ. Plus, the LJ stoopidity of 2007 and beyond disenchanted many to look for other playgrounds.

That said, I miss the "old LJ" just as much. The days when we'd talk on and on about eraser guts, ramble over whatever topic that happened to pop up... speaking of popping up, Hikaru just came to mind. XD

*SQUISHES*

hikethekilt April 6 2009, 19:07:05 UTC

You raise excellent points - and I fell prey to the former. I'm kind of glad I missed out on the whole strikethrough/boldthrough/chaotic mess.

I do miss that quite a lot, the comments parties... XD And oooh, you naughty girl. I should go draw him...

I think real life is the culprit, even for a non-LJer mickeyglitter April 6 2009, 16:23:59 UTC

Or perhaps it's just cyclical. *shrugs* I tend to think it's a bit of both. Yes, indeed. *nods* I've been slowly extricating myself from a lot of online stuff (not that there was that much left, after the last time I went through this), but even my Flickr account is feeling threatened now. Twitter gets its twinges of fear from time to time, but I think they're both safe. For now.

Re: I think real life is the culprit, even for a non-LJer txvoodoo April 6 2009, 16:52:57 UTC

I think it's cyclical, combined with other things - the times themselves are a bit disheartening these days, people are working harder to keep jobs, a LOT of fandom folks are moving into different life phases....

That said, my interent is still very busy. Just *differently*

Also, it's spring break time, combined with Easter and Passover - lots of RL eents that take folks away from online life.

Re: I think real life is the culprit, even for a non-LJer hikethekilt April 6 2009, 19:13:24 UTC

Probably if I hadn't stopped watching a lot of communities, there would seem to be more going on, but I think I'd just feel my flist was cluttered rather than being any more interesting. ><

And wtf, don't these people know they're supposed to be writing fic/making things instead of working? *outrage*

Internet is my happy place. When the times get bad, I get a-posting.

Re: I think real life is the culprit, even for a non-LJer hikethekilt April 6 2009, 19:11:45 UTC

You've got a good point - my own personal internet excitement is cyclical, for sure. A couple of months ago, it wouldn't have occurred to me to be sad LJ was not a hotbed of activity. I think we have very similar internet habits, heee.

txvoodoo April 6 2009, 16:54:19 UTC

ALSO, fwiw? I've been in online fandom for 20 years now, and every once in a while, people start to say it's declining - and it always comes back up ;)

And one thing that can spruce it up? Start posting! (like you've done here :D)

hikethekilt April 6 2009, 19:10:12 UTC

Very good advice!

The responses to this surprised me quite a lot, as I thought it was just me and lack of a heavily populated fandom. LotRips/LotR was kind of the heyday for me, I think. It makes me sad I have only the faintest idea what half my flist is on about...

Your optimism is contagious, however. 8D And I was about to gasp at your 20 years, but I've got 14 under my belt - and I lived out in the middle of nowhere, where we had to walk uphill both ways to get internet.

txvoodoo April 6 2009, 19:23:35 UTC

Activity spawns activity! It's tempting to just post about the state of things, but it feeds the meme, if you know what I mean :D

And I've actually be online LONGER than 20 years, but I guess it's only officially been THE INTERNETS since 87? Before that, it was BBSes ;)

hikethekilt April 6 2009, 19:32:52 UTC

Very good point. I suppose if I want 4th Doctor slash, I'm gonna have to write it myself. XD

Wow, am jealous! I was the first person I knew with a connection. I remember spending lunch breaks at school looking stuff up before graphic browsers, though - on Usenet, I think. If only I'd known of fandom then, omg.

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