*puff-breaths some dust off this place*

[iambliss]

It is Autumn, and maybe that is why, but I am feeling a li'l bit prickly-turtle-y and while I love the Googleyploos and the people there and stuff and thing, I am also... sort of kind of massively in the need of safespace, and Tumblr is marvelous but doesn't really count in the right way, and Twitter is only good for disappearing on, and the Book

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[stefka]

Well, obviously, I do! :)

[iambliss]

Huzzah!

I should probably crawl through my LJ friends and see who is still around and stuff and things.

[stonetimber]

Yup. When it works.

[iambliss]

Ads notwithstanding, it doesn't seem markedly different from when I last used it regularly. Trying to figure out comments, right now - it looks like comment notifications are rolled into Messages.

[tenner]

Yessssss!

I don't write as much as I once did here, just due to time constraints.

Google+ has the long-form posts (unlike Facebook and Twitter) and friend-of-a-friend interactions (like Facebook and unlike Twitter) I like, but when they started linking Google+ to everything (YouTube, public +1's, etc.) I started getting a little nervous about letting too much of my interests invade my online persona (and now I'm just trying to see how many parentheses I can use in one sentence).

[iambliss]

I'm a big fan of long-form posts! G+ has gotten a little too public for the friend-oriented interaction I've been craving, though. The trials and tribulations of accidental internet fame, etc, etc.

[tenner]

I love others' long-form posts, and I love writing when I can, but my job and general lifestyle have made that type of self-reflection and -expression difficult.

When LiveJournal was in its heyday I feel that the barrier to become LJ friends with someone became higher the longer one's journal existed. Maybe I'm the only one who did this, but when becoming LJ friends I would immediately go back in time and read their last few posts. Sometimes I'd even go back years. Twitter and Facebook don't have an easily accessible past archive to allow for this.

There's so much whiny crap left over from when I started in 2003. To accept a new friend means sharing all of that with them. So the barrier to become LJ friends became really high

[slipjig]

Here. Reading. Even writing on occasion.

[iambliss]

Huzzah!

[arianhwyvar]

Hello! I still read LJ. And may even post something soon: I have a new thing I made.

[iambliss]

Oooh, new thing! What flavor of thing?

[arianhwyvar]

This new thing!
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