Comments | ladygabrielle: All Shined Up

ladygabrielle

All Shined Up

Jun 13, 2003 03:41

As the livejournal fad is once again in a growth cycle among my friends, and as I have been asked on more than one occasion about being listed on other people's friends pages, I've renovated my journal for that purpose. I'll even try to update it from time to time ( Read more... )

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nakor June 13 2003, 07:12:04 UTC

I think it's odd that you both think that this method of communication signals a flaw in social relations, and that you understand its purpose: given the two possibilities:

You do understand how your friends use LiveJournal, and it's a bad way.
You don't understand how your friends use LiveJournal, but it may be a good way.

I'm surprised you have such confidence in the first. ("If there are two ways to interpret what I said, and one implies I'm an idiot, and the other doesn't, please assume I meant the other.") Come to think of it, how is this inferior to friends writing letters to one another? It's some neat infrastructure built on top of the idea that friends don't get to see each other often enough, so they write to one another (and some other ideas, yes). Nobody's advocating it, as far as I know, as a replacement for face to face conversation, private mail, or real-time mediated conversations like telephones or zephyr. Indeed, it is pretty awful at those. But for what it does do, why is a public journal bad?

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ladygabrielle June 14 2003, 02:15:26 UTC

I'm unclear on the argument here. On the one hand, you're saying that I both understand the purpose of livejournal for at least some of my friends and think it's bad. Yet simultaneously draw the conclusion that I must not understand the purpose for which my friends use livejournal because it would be absurd for me to understand and think it's bad ( ... )

anonymous June 18 2003, 06:05:44 UTC

Hm. That's odd, to me it seems a great forum for telling people what's going on with my life and keeping up with theirs. It's not intrusive, which I think is the most important quality from my perspective--people don't *have* to read my journal if they don't care: there's nothing vitally important in it that I wouldn't tell someone if they asked, but I'm not pushing it on them like I would be if I used my email list for this.

Anyway, YMMV, and you are entitled to your own opinions

livejournal fad admiralthrawn June 24 2003, 11:42:52 UTC

If find lj a decent way to keep up with the "sometimes" people in my life; the people who I see once a week or so, who I don't get much of a chance to chat with... On the other hand, I don't summon the energy to post myself very often, so I'm more of a spectator to the whole thing. *shrug* I'd rather have the time to chat with people like you every couple days, but I don't and so lj gives me at least a little window into your life.