Comments | joryuu: blah blah blah, right?

joryuu

blah blah blah, right?

Jun 04, 2003 23:13

Anyone else feel the sense of community on LJ is just dead? Is all the sudden and not-forewarned friends list trimming and the being cut by people you really thought you "had something with" making you feel really resentful not only because you thought you two "had something" but also because you thought you were above silly LiveJournal politics? ( Read more... )

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antigirly June 4 2003, 23:17:07 UTC

i never realized how big livejournal communities actually was until recently.

doesn't it remind you of the old days? now we all just don't have zoom or gurl pages accounts, we have super cool, my layout looks like yours, and yours like mine, livejournal accounts.

xo.

antigirly June 4 2003, 23:18:03 UTC

opps. spoke too much.

sarah is all custom :)

xoxo.

joryuu June 4 2003, 23:39:02 UTC

yeah, that customness is a recent development.
but hey, if you do like monotany -- most of the webpages out there ARE looking exactly like each other again. popups and dropdowns galore, yeah? ha ha.

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joryuu June 5 2003, 23:07:40 UTC

is that wjat happens when teh lsit gets over 50? kind of. everyone wants the same amount of you, all of you, and seem to fail to realize you've spread yourself amongst like 75 different people, and while you may honestly and completely care about them, you just can't give your whole damn self to all of damn them all the damn time.

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ex_mimic736 June 4 2003, 23:24:09 UTC

It feels less than vital, yes. But my sense of it really depends on how regularly my friends update. I'm not in any rush to migrate, though. I don't know where I would migrate to, from here, really.

joryuu June 4 2003, 23:39:35 UTC

i want to migrate into domestication.

ex_mimic736 June 4 2003, 23:44:36 UTC

Come again?

joryuu June 4 2003, 23:46:54 UTC

the microcosm of artistic/political/philosophical/journalistic communication i would migrate to, from here, would be a house inhabited by myself and some guy with a ring that matches mine.

myredself June 4 2003, 23:52:16 UTC

by the way, I just found your package tonight in the kitchen. That and a thousand give-me-money letters from NOW are apparently the only things I've gotten in the last 6 months. THANK YOU! the CDs are really good.

xo

myredself June 4 2003, 23:57:38 UTC

livejournal is fucking weird. i don't feel like posting gives me anything anymore, really - it just feels kind of exploitative, maybe because I sometimes look at my userinfo page and notice that almost 1000 people read my journal and that creeps me out. i think the thing that really made me suspicious was when like 2938 people wrote me when i took my journal down, some very ANGRY that i did without giving a shit about my reasons for it, like i 'owed' them something, while TWO or THREE people emailed to say congratulations on my wedding day. oh and that whole identity-theft thing, which really made me sad. ever since then (and for a long time before, really), it just seems less and less valuable. there are still certain people who make it worthwhile, but the value, now, for me, is reading those journals, maintaining some kind of contact, and that's really it.

xo

joryuu June 5 2003, 23:10:28 UTC

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i feel slightly responsible for your deletion! or at least like a small chunk of a bunch of things making up a catalyst.
direct anyone's irateness at me. i'll twirl the clouds with my fingers and make rocks fall on their heads.
not like you can respond to this here ...