Are we not being deep enough for you? Terribly sorry.
My relationship with my father is incredibly unexceptional. He's not terrible or inspiring. I resented him when I was younger but I've mostly outgrown that, although spending too much time with him still drives me a bit crazy. He raised me to adulthood with no serious injury or criminal convictions, so I suppose he succeeded as a parent. He was the first person I called when a pipe burst in my ceiling and my basement flooded. Even though we're not close, watching him age makes me sad, because I love him and I'll miss him when he's gone.
Dad and I are both water people. I'm Pisces, like Mom, and he's a Scorpio. So when we would play at the beach or the pool, I would be loving the water but he would want to do things like play "drowning victim" where I would have to try to turn him over from a dead man's float and drag him to "safety." I was so little that I was the one who ended up sucking down water and nearly drowning. My dad's response? "Got your breath back? Good. Now let's try it again." My enjoyment of pools started to go away
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I can't speak for anyone else, but the reason LJ is failing for me is the inequality factor. I work fairly hard...or have in the past...to give great LJ. I scoured the net for interesting things to post about, I talked about my life and my world, I posted my art and comics and other things I created. All I'd ask in return was to have some percentage of my 300+ readers comment so that I know I'm doing a decent job at it. That percentage has shrunk and shrunk and shrunk, especially in the last year. I've started to get very weary of people who post nothing but macros and stuff repeatedly coming into my journal and then making rude or demanding comments about the content. The respect variable seems to have dropped a -lot- in recent years on LJ and I find myself rather hacked off about it and unwilling to put the effort in when I'm not getting any comments, not building any interactions/relationships with anyone and having to field rudeness, disrespect and other sorts of bad behavior erupting in my virtual living room. So I've been
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adding to the pile...yvelineJuly 17 2009, 15:38:49 UTC
One thing that can be said about social media is that whichever service allows the most immediate access to people wins. I think you should start a twitter account just so you can post about real life.
You've heard many of my thoughts on my father, but I'll share some things for the benefit of your flist, and for the sake of writing it down.
My father is my biggest role model. It was his encouragement that set me on my course as an artist from a very young age. In my early childhood, the quality I remember most about him was his patience with me. Where most parents would set their kids in front of the TV, he drew with me, and made things. When we watched movies together he would tell me about how the special effects were done.
I remember distinctly running into the bright orange kitchen at our house on Barrett Rd. in Falls Church, carrying a piece of paper I'd written that said "THE SORD MADE THE MAN BLOODY." I was about 5 and referencing a scene in the 1980's film Give My Regards to Broadway that was on in the living room - a
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when you explain your use, it sounds logical. when i look at how these tools seem to be used typically, there's a disconnect. I guess I've never used FB, MyS, LJ or anysuch in a business capacity, so maybe things like Twitter are terribly useful.
And I absolutely get the desire for privacy. I guess I just feel lately like the online interactions I have are all coated in a film of plastic, very little of interest or substance in the blogoshpere. Maybe I'm using it wrong.
I guess the point to me was originally to stay in touch with people who moved away and see what they were up to, and to share stories from my life and my opinions, and get that from other people.
you used lj to put out a lot of stories, and i dug that when i started reading you. i know there are many reasons for blogging or twittering or what have you. i'm just a story kind of guy.
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My relationship with my father is incredibly unexceptional. He's not terrible or inspiring. I resented him when I was younger but I've mostly outgrown that, although spending too much time with him still drives me a bit crazy. He raised me to adulthood with no serious injury or criminal convictions, so I suppose he succeeded as a parent. He was the first person I called when a pipe burst in my ceiling and my basement flooded. Even though we're not close, watching him age makes me sad, because I love him and I'll miss him when he's gone.
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You've heard many of my thoughts on my father, but I'll share some things for the benefit of your flist, and for the sake of writing it down.
My father is my biggest role model. It was his encouragement that set me on my course as an artist from a very young age. In my early childhood, the quality I remember most about him was his patience with me. Where most parents would set their kids in front of the TV, he drew with me, and made things. When we watched movies together he would tell me about how the special effects were done.
I remember distinctly running into the bright orange kitchen at our house on Barrett Rd. in Falls Church, carrying a piece of paper I'd written that said "THE SORD MADE THE MAN BLOODY." I was about 5 and referencing a scene in the 1980's film Give My Regards to Broadway that was on in the living room - a ( ... )
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when i look at how these tools seem to be used typically, there's a disconnect. I guess I've never used FB, MyS, LJ or anysuch in a business capacity, so maybe things like Twitter are terribly useful.
And I absolutely get the desire for privacy. I guess I just feel lately like the online interactions I have are all coated in a film of plastic, very little of interest or substance in the blogoshpere. Maybe I'm using it wrong.
I guess the point to me was originally to stay in touch with people who moved away and see what they were up to, and to share stories from my life and my opinions, and get that from other people.
you used lj to put out a lot of stories, and i dug that when i started reading you. i know there are many reasons for blogging or twittering or what have you. i'm just a story kind of guy.
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