Long live Livejournal
In case Facebook and Twitter weren't poaching enough of our writing activity from Livejournal, now even Tumblr has passed Livejournal in traffic:
People are writing less, people are commenting less (at least, FINALLY, Tumblr has created a very limited, opt-in, version of commenting that they've decided to call the "replies" for some reason even though it is really the same thing. I guess they're just really against the word comments and not the actual feature, who knew. Not that I'm complaining, cause I love comments.
Anyway, so yeah it's the end of the world, all the long-form diary writing industries are going to collapse and there will be a decades-long media frenzy/debacle as all the execs try to swim against the stream and keep their high-paying jobs and private jets that long-form diary entries with threaded comments and flexible permissioning has allowed them to sort of get used to over the last however long. I bet there will be at least a couple good movies about it. It's going to be messy and it's going to be ugly. The worst will be brought out of some.
Please try to maintain dignity, though. In the end, the future is an unstoppable fuzzy steamroller that will turn us all into chocolate pancakes and we may as well prepare the syrup. Here I am. Let's hold each other and pray.
People are writing less, people are commenting less (at least, FINALLY, Tumblr has created a very limited, opt-in, version of commenting that they've decided to call the "replies" for some reason even though it is really the same thing. I guess they're just really against the word comments and not the actual feature, who knew. Not that I'm complaining, cause I love comments.
Anyway, so yeah it's the end of the world, all the long-form diary writing industries are going to collapse and there will be a decades-long media frenzy/debacle as all the execs try to swim against the stream and keep their high-paying jobs and private jets that long-form diary entries with threaded comments and flexible permissioning has allowed them to sort of get used to over the last however long. I bet there will be at least a couple good movies about it. It's going to be messy and it's going to be ugly. The worst will be brought out of some.
Please try to maintain dignity, though. In the end, the future is an unstoppable fuzzy steamroller that will turn us all into chocolate pancakes and we may as well prepare the syrup. Here I am. Let's hold each other and pray.