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.

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[dglenn.livejournal.com]

One of the several things I like about DW is the way it can be a hot backup for your LJ presence: with the DW crossposter, you just post there and tell it to crosspost here, and all your future entries are already backed up as you post them, in case anything ever happens to LJ. Or if you wait until the last minute, the DW importer will grab LJ entries and any comments posted to them as of the time DW imports your LJ journal (assuming you're doing that in case LJ dies, not after it already has, of course).

I'm not using the crossposter myself, because I stopped posting full entries to LJ in protest over some of their stupidity, but I did use the importer when I created my DW account, and a fair percentage of the folks I know on DW are using the crossposter to be simultaneously present on LJ and DW. (And through a different mechanism, I crosspost to other sites in case DW ever dies.)