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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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.