LJ is still a little relevant

[sabotabby]

I'm consciously avoiding Facebook these days. I don't even want to look at it. I gather there are probably some features on it that I need to disable.

Facebook's effect on social networking reminds me of what happened with Chapters-Indigo in Canada. All of the small publishers and bookstores went out of business, and everyone had to go to Chindigo, and then Chindigo realized that it was much more profitable to sell a small number of popular books and lots of diaries and scented candles. So everyone ditched and started buying books on Amazon. I don't know what the SNS equivalent of Amazon is.

I'm avoiding G+ because nymwars have resulted in practically no one I know using it for anything other than posting about nymwars.

I'm trying to like Tumblr but there is not a convenient way to comment. It doesn't feel very social or interactive to just click a heart. And I'm not sure that there is a big audience for pictures of pulp sci-fi covers that look like they have dicks on them, which appears to be the theme I've fallen into.

So I'm glad LJ is still here.

And also because I love you guys.

Comments

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

The ironic thing about Facebook is that one major complaint about the site was the word limit on status updates. They recently increased it to blog-sized proportions. (True, people can use the note feature to write longer rants, but hardly anyone FBers ever do that!)

The recent FB changes have been making the news, and the complaints are getting even louder than the last time. I'm sure, given the way the FB bigwigs are and have been wrangling things over the years, that eventually they're going to do something that will alienate their vast number of users to the point where FB will become MySpace part II.

In my daydreams LJ experiences a resurgence. But evenif it doesn't, I think it'll hang around for a while.

[erikthedane.livejournal.com]

LJ has always been a sane place to retreat to for me. This was my first blogging platform, and I'll be here when the lights go out. FB I use for communication with the multiple circles I run in. And quite honestly...I get tired of politics. Even with those whose opinions I agree with. Here there is sanctuary. I work 6 days a week right now, and that cuts into time for...well...anything. I feel like me and LJ are kind of estranged since I haven't been posting here.

*EDIT* Just now, Willie Nelson's "You Were Always On My Mind" just came up on my Spotify shuffle.

Anyhow, I'm happy to get here when I can. Even happier to post.




Here's where people can find me:

Diaspora
Posterous
FB
Twitter
Tumblr
Dreamwidth

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

I'll just add my voice to the choir of "Glad you're posting here," and leave it at that.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

For me Facebook is basically a second email and repository for event invites.

I think the best way to use Facebook is to have an account and ignore it. If someone invites you to an event or an old lost friend contacts you, great. That's useful. If you sign an online petition and they want to put it on your wall, do it. But you should otherwise ignore it until you get the email notification and then only look at what you were notified for. Facebook has rendered itself useless for regularly keeping track of your friends. All hail Live Journal for keeping posts in chronological order.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

And you can't find posts again, unless FB wants you to find it.

This is especially annoying to me.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I would prefer all my friends to get a Live Journal account, but that probably is not going to happen. Thus, G+ becomes the lesser evil between it and Facebook.

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

Oh, and speaking of Tumblr, I saw this collection of posters for the Soviet space program, and naturally I thought of you.

[sabotabby]

Oooh, I totally need that!

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

Thanks, yeah, I guess that's what I like: when they turn into conversations. It's been years since I posted enough on here or had enough friends on here to have that happen much.