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

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

I really like Tumlbr (mostly for the crack-tacular fan art), but I agree that its comment system is awkward. My other issue with it is that there's no filter system that I've figured out yet. As one person noted, "Tumblr can go from kittens to orgies in two posts". I think you can block certain tags, but that only works if the poster bothered to tag it in the first place.

It seems most of my fb time is spent gaming. Stupid games...

[sabotabby]

It's not like I check it at work, so kittens to orgies isn't a huge problem for anything other than my eyeballs.

I've managed to completely avoid FB games. It's not even a thing to me. After the official Scrabble game went down years ago, I had no interest in the stuff.

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

It just caught me by surprise, I suppose. Do a tag search for character x, find everything from adorable to OH GAWD EYE BLEACH PLEASE.

And while I don't check it at work, I do have a kiddo at the house...so no more tumbling while the boy is up (til I can block tags).

I started playing Words, which i can't tell apart from Scrabble, unless the official one didn't have ads, which would be an improvement.

[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!