So... Why LJ?

[cloudwoven]

Hey, LJRemixers!

So it's been pretty quiet out there on my friends list (dontjudgeme), and so I thought I would post another writing prompt to our community page. It's a quickie (or - could be), but I'm interested to hear from all of you why you felt strongly about coming back to LiveJournal -- or not leaving, as the case may be. What did you

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[dearjerk]

Okay this is my first ever post in a community and while I am pretty sure there is not much to it, I am nervous I will somehow do it wrong, so sorry if this somehow ends up somewhere that it doesn't belong.

I was first off inspired to come and check my livejournal mostly because I am getting really bored and unimpressed with most of the activity that I see on facebook. Most of my friends are high school students, which is fine because I use facebook primarily for work. However, many of my fellow adults on facebook use it the same way as the teens on my friends list do. I have seen so many ridiculously personal discussions on facebook walls - for example, one of my student's mothers was fighting with her sister-in-law on a thread about whether or not the student's father was a deadbeat dad to said student and her sisters. I have seen people announce pregnancies and abortions in their status updates, among other exploits of sensitive and personal information. I am fine with people sharing personal information on the internet, but I think it should be in an appropriate context and as part of a process, which is what I believe LJ always provided me and those on my LJ friend's list.

I just feel like facebook is this huge facade of people connecting to each other, when really it just means that you have a million superficial connections to a million different people, and fewer and fewer real-life interactions. I'm not saying it's evil or all-bad - I am known for snarky status updates and for liking all sorts of comments and updates that I find amusing, but my point is that I came back to LJ because I need something more. I need to feel like I am really saying something sometimes and like someone is really listening. I am lucky to have wonderful, beautiful friends but I feel like if I am going to do the whole social network thing I need to do it with a purpose. And I wouldn't want my entire friends list to either read my LJ or be my friends on LJ - facebook is what it is, I'm just not going to pretend it's real. So I guess, in short, I returned to LJ in search of sincerity.