Comments | resk: Facebook and LJ and Me and the Future

resk

Facebook and LJ and Me and the Future

Aug 09, 2010 14:44

A few years ago, someone e-mailed me some pictures, and the only way for me to look at them was to join Facebook. I had been through this kind of thing before with other sites, and I didn't wanna play, so I didn't join. But this kept happening over and over, so I finally relented and joined under my usual online identity: Resk Le Teveque ( Read more... )

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packin' it in ozy_y2k August 9 2010, 21:18:20 UTC

It's kind of hilarious you made this entry, since I spent most of my free time at work today idly thinking that I should probably make my own entry sometime soon saying almost exactly the same thing. I think it was our brief comment-discussion on your last entry that provoked me to think about it ( ... )

Re: packin' it in mirlandano August 9 2010, 23:11:30 UTC

You'll always be ozy to me ;)

Re: packin' it in jadesfire55 August 10 2010, 12:17:15 UTC

Aww, I will miss your posts. FB just isn't the same.

Re: packin' it in resk August 10 2010, 19:05:09 UTC

It felt better to write something than not to write something. So many of the old gang (ikkarus01, incyr, and even caspian_x and thebruce0) just disappeared. One day I woke up to a ghost town. I at least wanted to address my phase-out.

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sunnycrittenden August 9 2010, 22:11:10 UTC

You can't really compare LJ to Facebook. They're two entirely different animals where you do entirely different things.

Most people I know can't be themselves on Facebook due to real life contacts not knowing the "real" them, so they still post here.

resk August 10 2010, 19:11:59 UTC

I'm certainly not saying that Facebook is in any way BETTER than LJ other than the fact that most of the fun hang of hooligans who used to get into various hijinks over here are now over there and not here at all. That's what I'm missing over here. And I could attempt to find new LJ friends and start all over again but I'm just trying my little phase-out/phase-in. I'll see how that goes. Maybe I'll post more here than I think I'm going to.

nettie75 August 10 2010, 02:38:31 UTC

I hear what you're saying, but I am keeping my LJ for now-I was an English major, and I love to write. Even if no one comments on my entries, it feels good to vent, or tell a story, or tell a bunch of people random stuff about myself. I find FB generally annoying and nosy, but do enjoy keeping in touch with 140 people whenever I want.

thunderclap8 August 10 2010, 12:09:09 UTC

yup, that's how I feel too. FB isn't a good fit for my longer rambling vents or stories. Sometimes I need to bang out some text longer than a few sentences, and I instantly feel better.

jadesfire55 August 10 2010, 12:19:32 UTC

Thirded. I approach LJ and FB exactly the same way. I miss the activity that used to be here on LJ, but half the reason I started this journal was solely for me and my ramblings anyway, whether people are reading or not.

atdt1991 August 10 2010, 14:06:15 UTC

Agreed. Plus I really prefer the LJ communities, largely.

I made Facebook work for me. I have hidden pretty much every app that has ever popped up on my status page, so I don't have to see them anymore. I've hidden the "Friends" who aren't really friends and whose statuses irritate me. I've set up a "limited" list for people I don't want reading my statuses or my notes.

I do miss the more complicated dynamics of LJ - where it is easy to set up many groups and make posts directed to one set of people or another, but honestly on LJ I don't have the same issues - it's either friendlocked or it isn't.

EIther way, I can't keep up with Facebook statuses. I read twitter and I let FB statuses fly by, because I would literally waste my entire day if I tried to read them all.

I'm not particularly worried about my privacy because I have no illusions that I have any.

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