Blast from the Past
Yesterday, or was it the day before yesterday, my boyfriend was bitching a bit about my Lifejournal. Not really, he just said (sarcastically) that I should use Facebook as I like it so much. I said LJ came before Facebook and then went to check, yes, it did, and I even joined before Facebook became available :)
Now I was sitting there with my very first LJ post and decided to look through my first few posts, which ended in me spending close two three days reading through all the posts. Unsurprisingly the first few years took forever to read and the last few years went by quickly. Which I now think is quite a pity, because I really did not remember a lot of the things I was reading about. I remember after reading about it, but I had forgotten about it already.
Facebook isn't really for collecting thoughts. I can't imagine to check my FB timeline years in the future to see what I was doing/thinking at some time, and let's be frank, most of the stuff people post in FB (me included) is not really interesting. So maybe that's something actually speaking for LJ right now. I might actually try to post more here instead of FB. Especially since I'm still quite circumspect about some things there. After all I don't want to know prospective partners/customers too much about what I do or think privately.
Another thing I noticed reading through the posts and comments is that a lot of people who regularly posted just disappeared from LJ completely. Most of them without a good-bye post of any kind. They're just gone. Years of spending time together online and suddenly nothing. It's quite sad, but without a real name to look them up... nothing you can really do.
Nowadays my friends page consists mostly of communities and the occasional fanfic writer. Nothing bad about that, but I somehow miss reading about other people's lives. I guess everyone moved to someplace else. But truth is, no matter how many times the death of LJ was proclaimed, it's still here. So I'll stay here as well.
Now I was sitting there with my very first LJ post and decided to look through my first few posts, which ended in me spending close two three days reading through all the posts. Unsurprisingly the first few years took forever to read and the last few years went by quickly. Which I now think is quite a pity, because I really did not remember a lot of the things I was reading about. I remember after reading about it, but I had forgotten about it already.
Facebook isn't really for collecting thoughts. I can't imagine to check my FB timeline years in the future to see what I was doing/thinking at some time, and let's be frank, most of the stuff people post in FB (me included) is not really interesting. So maybe that's something actually speaking for LJ right now. I might actually try to post more here instead of FB. Especially since I'm still quite circumspect about some things there. After all I don't want to know prospective partners/customers too much about what I do or think privately.
Another thing I noticed reading through the posts and comments is that a lot of people who regularly posted just disappeared from LJ completely. Most of them without a good-bye post of any kind. They're just gone. Years of spending time together online and suddenly nothing. It's quite sad, but without a real name to look them up... nothing you can really do.
Nowadays my friends page consists mostly of communities and the occasional fanfic writer. Nothing bad about that, but I somehow miss reading about other people's lives. I guess everyone moved to someplace else. But truth is, no matter how many times the death of LJ was proclaimed, it's still here. So I'll stay here as well.