I post lots of short-form things on Facebook -- links, brief anecdotes, that sort of thing. Some of that ends up here, too, and then there are things that I post here but not there. Sometimes there's even an explicable reason for the different treatment of the material.
One attraction of Facebook is the glittering allure of feedback, even if it consists mainly of vapid "likes." (I do appreciate that you're one of the very few people who bother to reply when I post things.) The best we can manage on LJ nowadays to see if there's any point in blogging at all and not just putting it down in a paper diary is, for example, to get people to answer polls about their LJ usage, which I have done myself. "Oh ho," I think, "so there ARE people seeing this stuff!"
tl;dr: LJ no longer has enough community to sustain my narcissism.
Har har. I don't see it as narcissism; rather, I didn't intend this to be a private diary, and it seems odd to post something that no one appears to read. I may as well not post at all. I suppose if I wanted lots of comments I could become a regular on ONTD.
I do post a lot to Tumblr, but it's all books/Disney/Supernatural/Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings/etc. related. I also have a book blog for my bookish stuff (which is cross-posted to Tumblr as well), I have a Facebook but hardly post to it. I use LJ when I have something to say that I want to just get off my chest or whatever, because LJ lets you lock it to folks as opposed to other sites. But I just kind of find myself not wanting to share personal stuff all that often anymore I guess. Probably because I guess I feel like folks don't really care or aren't interested.
Well, my life is pretty monotonous, so I feel like if I posted more often the posts would all look the same. I like reading others' posts about their lives but am just kind of hesitant to share my own. So I just use it sporadically. :)
I don't think of it as monotonous. Like everyone, you have similar incidents and struggles often: the kids, the other teachers, the administration. But it's not boring to read about these things. And you're my favorite Cardinals fan. OK, you're the only Cardinals fan I know well, but I love the baseball season posts.
I think FB replaced LJ as the place where people go to talk about current events, and I'm sorry about that, because I value your voice as much as anyone's on my flist. I can always count on aome to discuss stuff like that...I miss when the rest of my friends did too. I'm not interested in putting my real name, real life info etc. on FB and having a public discussion about much of anything, all while being tracked. But it's true that just about everyone else is fine with it, a reality I find mystifying.
I decided this year to post every single day! So far it's working!! I don't have a tumblr account, and facebook... well I use it mostly to play scrabble against my mom. haha!
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One attraction of Facebook is the glittering allure of feedback, even if it consists mainly of vapid "likes." (I do appreciate that you're one of the very few people who bother to reply when I post things.) The best we can manage on LJ nowadays to see if there's any point in blogging at all and not just putting it down in a paper diary is, for example, to get people to answer polls about their LJ usage, which I have done myself. "Oh ho," I think, "so there ARE people seeing this stuff!"
tl;dr: LJ no longer has enough community to sustain my narcissism.
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I think FB replaced LJ as the place where people go to talk about current events, and I'm sorry about that, because I value your voice as much as anyone's on my flist. I can always count on aome to discuss stuff like that...I miss when the rest of my friends did too. I'm not interested in putting my real name, real life info etc. on FB and having a public discussion about much of anything, all while being tracked. But it's true that just about everyone else is fine with it, a reality I find mystifying.
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