i been thinkin i got my reasons just to get

[littlegirltoast]

My internet is collapsing around my knees and I kind of want to let it. I think I am tired of it, after sixteen years

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[dzuunmod]

I don't think I have much to say to this other than, you know, good luck with raging at the clouds in the sky, old man!

[littlegirltoast]

Is that what I'm doing? I don't think it necessarily is... I guess the last bit is a bit of nostalgic desperation, but the main thing about not knowing how to manage my life well with facebook in it is really about me and not about time's inexorable march.

[dzuunmod]

Yeah, my comment was really just a response to the last part. Most of those things you mention - the ship has sailed on 'em.

I mean, I love radio, too, but I think the internet has improved things tremendously for radio fans (and to differing extents, fans of the other things you mention there). I don't have a cellphone, let alone a smartphone, but the idea that if I did, I could listen to half the radio stations in the world on the go with it is extremely exciting to me.

If I ever got a smartphone, it wouldn't be so that I could ever use it as a phone - I wouldn't even want a number that people could call me at. Rather, I'd want it just so that I could use it to connect to cellphone networks for audio and video.

[littlegirltoast]

I have a smartphone, but a crippling and reasonable terror of incurring data charges prevents me from streaming anything through it, ever.

I don't think radio is really dead from a listener's perspective - there's still community/college stations out there doing there thing, and there probably still will be for a long time. I miss its vitality from the other end, as being an effective tool for reaching a regional audience. Any global, or even national, broadcast media loses its power to hold and prop a regional scene together and up.

More as a DJ and an artist I miss what radio used to do than as a listener, which is damning actually.

[jsangspar]

I don't think physical media will ever actually go away. I do definitely think that it is on the outs as far as the mass market is considered (DVDs are the primary exception as of yet). Music has already gone, books are going, and movies might take a while but will eventually go digital. Physical media right now I think are best employed as being physical EXCLUSIVE - meaning ideally released in a format that can't be converted digitally, not easily at least - but that reeks a bit of screwing over the consumer for choice.

I am still doing that though. And I mean just to remind you that is a thing you can help with if you're really serious, I mean. This is the Lament For The Old Media Stick I am beating you with here, is what I'm trying to say.

[loopfrog]

I like that i have an easy way to keep up to date with general happenings in your life, and i like feeling that you're keeping up with mine. It's not usually super deep, but it gives us clues and common landmarks when we meet up again in person. I'd miss that, personally. We could use email or livejournal, of course, but i've largely given up using either of those things for online socializing because i feel like they suck up way MORE time for way LESS return, at least in terms of putting things out there

[loopfrog]

That was about Facebook, by the way. That was probably clear.

[c_drive]

I pretty much agree with everything said here. Although I still read LJ pretty faithfully (despite never posting), so I'd still be able to keep up with you if you kept a presence here.

[littlegirltoast]

And see where you are now? Toiling in obscurity.

Should have stayed on the facetrain.

[loolica]

I think what you'd not get is that instant gratification of little accolades rolling in for very little effort

[jsangspar]

I agree with this wholefartedly, except I think you can also take the word "Facebook" and replace it with "Twitter" and the whole thing still works. I like Livejournal because it is actually a way to spread entire thoughts and ideas and argue and rebut and make people THINK HARDER because it is hard to do all of that in 100 characters or less, even if u tlk lk thz. I am genuinely sad that Livejournal - a quick, easy, cheap way of talking to people you know and keeping up on their biz - is dying because of quicker, easier, cheaper ways of talking to people you know and keeping up on their biz, unless you're Russian.

[audrawilliams]

I agree with this and it makes me want to ditch Facebook, too!

[littlegirltoast]

I still compulsively check livejournal, and although the returns are diminishing on that front (quantity-wise, not quality, natch), that doesn't seem to make a difference to my patterns and habits. I think I fill in the time that I'm not spending updating it by checking it more frequently.

I wonder if I could trade Facebook in for junk food and one-night stands. Whoahhhh I just realized that's the actual advertising model that Facebook employs.... I am such a sucker!

That thing that Ryan says is brilliant.

I like that you are someone from whom being given even odds of having one's call answered, after determining the caller's identity, is a glowing compliment. You have successfully instilled in me a sense of exclusivity!