Facebook vs Livejournal
Ok, this is a conondrum.
Livejournal is losing its market share to FB. Lots of my friends have left LJ and are now only posting on FB. This includes peeps that have been on LJ for years. Some are posting on both. Some (like me) post their longer entries on LJ, and their shorter ones on fb.
However, FB really doesn't allow for long diary entries. So it really forces people to write short snappy comments.
Some of us like to write long entries...dammit!
You can write long entries on Fb, but people tend not too.
So the market is forcing people to leave LJ and changing them so they have to now write short snappy entries.
I must admit, FB is the most successful social networking tool I have seen. So many people now have FB accounts, who would never of got a myspace page, and have never even heard of LJ. Its a shame it just isn't geared to be for writing like LJ is.
Ultimately, FB has more punters on it, so thats going to sway many people, depending upon their communication needs.
I also discovered Questionable content
PS A clarification. My Gothy peeps are deserting LJ more than the my medieval peeps. Some of the SF fanfic peeps have deserted LJ and gone to Dreamwidth. There they can happily write about Rodney McKay making out with Shep, while R2D2 watches out for approaching Cthulhu spawn in a bizarre crossover alternate universe.
Livejournal is losing its market share to FB. Lots of my friends have left LJ and are now only posting on FB. This includes peeps that have been on LJ for years. Some are posting on both. Some (like me) post their longer entries on LJ, and their shorter ones on fb.
However, FB really doesn't allow for long diary entries. So it really forces people to write short snappy comments.
Some of us like to write long entries...dammit!
You can write long entries on Fb, but people tend not too.
So the market is forcing people to leave LJ and changing them so they have to now write short snappy entries.
I must admit, FB is the most successful social networking tool I have seen. So many people now have FB accounts, who would never of got a myspace page, and have never even heard of LJ. Its a shame it just isn't geared to be for writing like LJ is.
Ultimately, FB has more punters on it, so thats going to sway many people, depending upon their communication needs.
I also discovered Questionable content
PS A clarification. My Gothy peeps are deserting LJ more than the my medieval peeps. Some of the SF fanfic peeps have deserted LJ and gone to Dreamwidth. There they can happily write about Rodney McKay making out with Shep, while R2D2 watches out for approaching Cthulhu spawn in a bizarre crossover alternate universe.