If I Tell You I'm Strong, Will You Play Along?

[sunseenli]

I'm going to make an effort to journal again, at least a little bit. Part of it is not being able to be as eloquent as I'd like on Facebook...I'm not entirely sure why; certainly it's not an enforced character limit. Maybe it's because it's more public, although my LiveJournal was always pretty open. But there is an emotional difference between

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[talene309]

Wow! Welcome back to lj land~ I still refresh the friends list but gave up on posting about a year ago =/ Hopefully coming back here helps you vent and get things out in order to carry it around less throughout the day. I know I have to do that quite often

[sunseenli]

I'm kinda sorta thinking of trying to lure other people back into using LJ. I'm not the only one who misses it, but it's difficult speaking into the void. (Though not as difficult as I had anticipated--but then, it's only Day Three.)

I feel really guilty not accepting people's friends requests (I almost never request first.) It took a long time before I even got semi-comfortable with rejecting the people whose profiles contained absolutely no English and we had absolutely no mutuals in common.

And I could filter them, but trying to sort 600+ people gives me nightmares. Plus, LJ has other things I really like--like the use of tags, so I can see every post about mom's stroke, for example. Oh, I could do that if I used photos as tags, and albums, but again, it seems like extra effort. And I like being able to click "next" to read one entry after another. Et cetera, et cetera.

Bottom line, I just really want to give LiveJournal a chance again.

[talene309]

I don't blame you. The simplicity of lj feels so much more relaxing than how in-your-face facebook is. All the ads~~~~All the time. Videos that auto-play, more ads and suggested posts xD;

So many of the same news stories appearing because who knows wth they're doing with their algorithm, can we please just get chronological order back? xD;

I feel you. Well, please know that I'm here and reading even if I may not comment sometimes, ne?^^;

[sunseenli]

>>I don't blame you. The simplicity of lj feels so much more relaxing than how in-your-face facebook is. All the ads~~~~All the time. Videos that auto-play, more ads and suggested posts xD;

Yes! I wasn't thinking about that, but that too.

>>So many of the same news stories appearing because who knows wth they're doing with their algorithm, can we please just get chronological order back? xD;

ALSO THIS. I change it to "Most Recent" every time Iog in, and I'm still vaguely suspicious it's not quite chronological.

>>I feel you. Well, please know that I'm here and reading even if I may not comment sometimes, ne?^^;

Same here--although I'm going to make a conscious effort to comment on the few posts I do see from my friends who are still on here. I'd like to try to bring it back. As much as I can, anyway.