Well, you should know by now, sweets, that I am in NO WAY a complicated thinker and essayist like yourself. I envy you that ability to collate, organize, and present your thoughts in written form.
What I love about LJ is the flist. I've had wordpress blogs in the past and the silence is just about deafening. I've been writing since I was thirteen, if I want to write to my own audience of one, I can do that in a comfy armchair upstairs in the library in a notebook...LiveJournal allows the connection that has been the best promise of the World Wide Web. The idea that the village has become global.
For me, LiveJournal was an improved newsgroup. I miss threading...but loved the gaining of more personal interactions with individual entries.
Once Myspace hit the scene, I quaked. So not my thing. We have some similarities in our school year experiences and I don't particularly want/need to be in touch with anyone from my past. I never signed on for that platform.
Of course...the natural extension of so much psychic nudity, was FaceBook and I personally find it to be on par with satanic intervention in our lives. I think it's a very, very, very bad and negative thing. Anectodatally and statistically. What surprises me most about the slow death of LJ is the fact that so many have left for FB while claiming "fear" of LJ for political reasons. HELLO? FB is the political animal here. The ideologue that is really a pack mentality. UGH.
We also have Instagram and tumblr and twitter. All of those things have pulled writing, photographing flisters away. And I just don't understand THAT at all. (FaceBook is moderately understandable for quantitative reasons.) All flash and bang and no real substance. Definitely no interaction on a word level.
We are a LANGUAGE species. LiveJournal is a bastion and defender of language!
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What I love about LJ is the flist. I've had wordpress blogs in the past and the silence is just about deafening. I've been writing since I was thirteen, if I want to write to my own audience of one, I can do that in a comfy armchair upstairs in the library in a notebook...LiveJournal allows the connection that has been the best promise of the World Wide Web. The idea that the village has become global.
For me, LiveJournal was an improved newsgroup. I miss threading...but loved the gaining of more personal interactions with individual entries.
Once Myspace hit the scene, I quaked. So not my thing. We have some similarities in our school year experiences and I don't particularly want/need to be in touch with anyone from my past. I never signed on for that platform.
Of course...the natural extension of so much psychic nudity, was FaceBook and I personally find it to be on par with satanic intervention in our lives. I think it's a very, very, very bad and negative thing. Anectodatally and statistically. What surprises me most about the slow death of LJ is the fact that so many have left for FB while claiming "fear" of LJ for political reasons. HELLO? FB is the political animal here. The ideologue that is really a pack mentality. UGH.
We also have Instagram and tumblr and twitter. All of those things have pulled writing, photographing flisters away. And I just don't understand THAT at all. (FaceBook is moderately understandable for quantitative reasons.) All flash and bang and no real substance. Definitely no interaction on a word level.
We are a LANGUAGE species. LiveJournal is a bastion and defender of language!