Lament.

[xquerenciax]

Previous post, or two posts ago, saw Yama (threepunchstuff) and I discuss the decline of LJ, in which I admit I've participated by dropping off in posting myself. He said the following:

LJ is definitely a beautifully designed social networking platform. The simultaneous sense of community and privacy hasn't been duplicated

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[bakelite]

Where's the like button?

Anyway, I'm still here. I guess I'll leave too if enough people leave, but it bums me out. I've been writing on LJ (though not frequently, what with child and all) for over seven years.

[cannibal_x]

Interesting comments, thanks.

I deleted all the people who stopped posting /commenting for years a few months ago. It makes for a pretty slim remainder! And yet there still seem to be a ton of people out there who do use it..perhaps I should learn russian since it's ever popular there ;)_

[joytigre]

funny, I hadn't been on here in ages in part because having a small child (and now 2 of them) seemed to give me very little sustained uninterrupted space to really flesh out my thoughts. i had forgotten lj existed and only came back by accident when searching for something else sent me to a group i had once joined from here. this is a good conversation to stumble back into.. your post made me think.

[hassibah]

i've had some pretty thoughtful conversations on messageboards, that's too bad. though yeah i do tend to edit my thoughts down a lot, as i do on lj.
i read some stat, i forget where, that only like 2% of twitter accounts say anything, the rest are just passively watching-like me.

as far as all these websites go, and i like lj better than most, i don't think decline has anything to do with the quality of the format more than it does entropy-people that started using it five+ years ago got whatever they were into at the time out of their system-most but not all were probably in their teens or early twenties. i'm a relative latecomer to using the internet at all anyways, i don't see myself moving onto anything else in the same way.

[swizzbeats]

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