Why does it always seem
...That when I don't have regular internet that I post to LJ more? It’s just that when it's right there before me I always think I don't have anything worth saying, but when I cannot have it I just want to use it whenever I get the chance.
I still don't think I have anything worth saying. But people have been known to underestimate their own value, or the value of what they do.
Is it an insecure need for attention that brings us to post without a plan for what we are posting, or just a natural need to be heard? I often think LJ in its ability to get us communicating, in an oddly deep way for the internet, is still limited in the sense it is very one way. We write about ourselves, and then your friends read it and then write about themselves. We seem afraid to ask more, and afraid to speak to each other directly, despite the ability to do so with LJ's friend’s page. Myspace, or LJ for the illiterate (coffeegrrl23), doesn't give us this opportunity to so easily form a circle of people and interact. Better utilizing this can only encourage others who are not in a particular circle to either get involved or feel thoroughly out of the loop. We have 'communities' where there are posts that we write to people, but what about the community of you and the people who follow your journal, where’s the interaction there? Comments are nice but they aren’t our only tool.
Anyway I've rambled on enough about it, but what is talk without action? Let me know you’re out there, comment or do an entry of your own and ask what YOU want to hear from me? Why do YOU read my LJ? I will try to do the same, but let us not forget that in its roots this is a community, though it may not exist in any physical place.
I still don't think I have anything worth saying. But people have been known to underestimate their own value, or the value of what they do.
Is it an insecure need for attention that brings us to post without a plan for what we are posting, or just a natural need to be heard? I often think LJ in its ability to get us communicating, in an oddly deep way for the internet, is still limited in the sense it is very one way. We write about ourselves, and then your friends read it and then write about themselves. We seem afraid to ask more, and afraid to speak to each other directly, despite the ability to do so with LJ's friend’s page. Myspace, or LJ for the illiterate (coffeegrrl23), doesn't give us this opportunity to so easily form a circle of people and interact. Better utilizing this can only encourage others who are not in a particular circle to either get involved or feel thoroughly out of the loop. We have 'communities' where there are posts that we write to people, but what about the community of you and the people who follow your journal, where’s the interaction there? Comments are nice but they aren’t our only tool.
Anyway I've rambled on enough about it, but what is talk without action? Let me know you’re out there, comment or do an entry of your own and ask what YOU want to hear from me? Why do YOU read my LJ? I will try to do the same, but let us not forget that in its roots this is a community, though it may not exist in any physical place.