Facebook and LJ and Me and the Future
A few years ago, someone e-mailed me some pictures, and the only way for me to look at them was to join Facebook. I had been through this kind of thing before with other sites, and I didn't wanna play, so I didn't join. But this kept happening over and over, so I finally relented and joined under my usual online identity: Resk Le Teveque.
I had an account for a year and a half and was barely on there but was still annoyed enough by all the alerts and pirate games and whatnot that I was never a happy member. So I canceled my account.
Another year and a half goes by and more and more people ask me why in the world I don't have a Facebook account and that they don't want to go through the trouble of sending me an e-mail about this party they're having when I'm the only person not on Facebook and it's way easier if they just send out an invite for everyone on there.
And then the killer thing happens: I find out that the best (and basically only) way to get announcements about auditions for roles in area film and theater projects is through a group on Facebook. Since that's what I want to be doing, I pretty much need to rejoin Facebook and it would prolly behoove me to do so under my real name.
So I spend a couple of months resisting the re-join before finally relenting. Now I'm on Facebook again, under my real name. If you know my real name, feel free to friend me. If you don't, well, I'm sure you can figure it out.
I've been a member again since July 18th, and I gotta tell ya', it's not as bad as I remember it. I did up my settings and notifications so that it wouldn't be as annoying, and while the content on there isn't the lengthy, ruminating, sprawling fantasticness of LJ, the big difference is that there is, in fact, content.
My Live Journal friend's page has been experiencing gradual and substantial shrinkage over the past two years. Only a handful of people post every day and they receive a tiny fraction of the comments they used to. I've only managed a post a week for the past few weeks and man . . . my heart's just not in it like it used to be. When you take away the dialog that used to make this thing so much fun, you greatly decrease the joy in doing it at all.
I'm not saying that this is my last ever LJ post. I'm not completely closing the door. I may post something from time to time. I may not. But I'm not gonna be around anymore like I have been. I feel like after over 7 years and 2,000 posts it's time for me to take an extended hiatus.
It's been a fun time, LJ friends. But most of you aren't reading this anymore anyway. If you are, just know that I'll be checking in here now and again and maybe I'll even see you over on Facebook.
I had an account for a year and a half and was barely on there but was still annoyed enough by all the alerts and pirate games and whatnot that I was never a happy member. So I canceled my account.
Another year and a half goes by and more and more people ask me why in the world I don't have a Facebook account and that they don't want to go through the trouble of sending me an e-mail about this party they're having when I'm the only person not on Facebook and it's way easier if they just send out an invite for everyone on there.
And then the killer thing happens: I find out that the best (and basically only) way to get announcements about auditions for roles in area film and theater projects is through a group on Facebook. Since that's what I want to be doing, I pretty much need to rejoin Facebook and it would prolly behoove me to do so under my real name.
So I spend a couple of months resisting the re-join before finally relenting. Now I'm on Facebook again, under my real name. If you know my real name, feel free to friend me. If you don't, well, I'm sure you can figure it out.
I've been a member again since July 18th, and I gotta tell ya', it's not as bad as I remember it. I did up my settings and notifications so that it wouldn't be as annoying, and while the content on there isn't the lengthy, ruminating, sprawling fantasticness of LJ, the big difference is that there is, in fact, content.
My Live Journal friend's page has been experiencing gradual and substantial shrinkage over the past two years. Only a handful of people post every day and they receive a tiny fraction of the comments they used to. I've only managed a post a week for the past few weeks and man . . . my heart's just not in it like it used to be. When you take away the dialog that used to make this thing so much fun, you greatly decrease the joy in doing it at all.
I'm not saying that this is my last ever LJ post. I'm not completely closing the door. I may post something from time to time. I may not. But I'm not gonna be around anymore like I have been. I feel like after over 7 years and 2,000 posts it's time for me to take an extended hiatus.
It's been a fun time, LJ friends. But most of you aren't reading this anymore anyway. If you are, just know that I'll be checking in here now and again and maybe I'll even see you over on Facebook.