It's been a week since I arrived in London.  I've used these past days to say goodbye to this city and friends that I love so much. I fly back to Brasil on Friday... I have no clue when I'll be back in the UK.

My good friend live_life_like  started this journal in Brasil in May 2001 as a way of keeping in touch with myself and another friend we had in common. ( Read more... )

If you have been replying to my comments on your journals well, guess what: LJ hasn't been sending me those replies!  I'm not ignoring you!

I still get comments on my own journal - it's just the ones I do elsewhere that don't trigger email notifications. Anybody else having the same problem? Is it a settings thing that I need to update?

I've been thinking today if blogging and livejournaling is dead. Dead in the sense that most people who used them before have gone on to acquire many more social networks, and because of the increase in their personal admin (checking Facebook, checking Twitter, checking Instagram, etc) they no longer can tolerate long pieces of writing ( Read more... )

Is it just me or traffic has picked up on Livejournal? Loads of M.I.A. people are posting again. Was away for a few days and came back to epic posts ( Read more... )

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Facebook
The ultimate Yellow Book.  Great for keeping in touch with people who are crap at keeping in touch, managing events, prying in the lives of those you haven't seen in decades, and moaning about the latest security fiasco that is on the brink of pushing you to delete your account. I have a group set up exclusively for my family and I belong ( Read more... )

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If you are a writer or enjoy creative writing, and you are on Twitter, I've discovered a great little way of sparking things off through HerLindsayness's blog. She writes:

Created by Monica-Marie, the idea (behind #wordmongering) is that at the top of every hour, participants write as much as they can for thirty minutes. Then they take a 30-minute ( Read more... )

"On Facebook and Twitter, you are performing to attract people - you are dancing emotionally, on a platform created by a large corporation. People's feelings bounce back and forth - happy Stakhanovites, ignoring and denying the system of power. It's like Stalin's socialist realism. Both Twitter and socialist realism are innocent expressions of the ( Read more... )