Another One Drifted Away
Fuck.
Lost another friend.
This time...not by disagreement. GregStevensTX had lost interest in his LJ about a year ago. I wondered if he would come back. I checked my user info yesterday and saw that he finally deleted his LJ entirely as his name is crossed out.
He was one of my faves. I had so many great conversations with him.
I'm coming to understand something: I apparently take the Internet just a bit more seriously than most other people do. At least as far as Live Journal goes.
See...once upon a time, before Internet, people sometimes had what they called penpals, friends they wrote to and got to know mostly or entirely through letters. I tend to see my blog as partially replacing that. So I take most of my friends here pretty seriously. I don't shrug shit off and go "Whatever. It's just the Internet."
I guess...other people don't.
Or maybe it's just that Facebook is so much more glamorous than Live Journal. Everyone is on Facebook. Except me. I'm not on that shit roster. What I'm hoping is that Live Journal will make a comback. Think of it this way: Friendster came and went. MySpace came and went. Facebook came and will hopefully go too. And folks who abandoned LJ will start coming back. After their fads lose flavor like so much old chewing gum, they'll spit them out and return to their good old homes at LJ.
Maybe. I hope.
So...no more Greg. That really bums me out.
Lost another friend.
This time...not by disagreement. GregStevensTX had lost interest in his LJ about a year ago. I wondered if he would come back. I checked my user info yesterday and saw that he finally deleted his LJ entirely as his name is crossed out.
He was one of my faves. I had so many great conversations with him.
I'm coming to understand something: I apparently take the Internet just a bit more seriously than most other people do. At least as far as Live Journal goes.
See...once upon a time, before Internet, people sometimes had what they called penpals, friends they wrote to and got to know mostly or entirely through letters. I tend to see my blog as partially replacing that. So I take most of my friends here pretty seriously. I don't shrug shit off and go "Whatever. It's just the Internet."
I guess...other people don't.
Or maybe it's just that Facebook is so much more glamorous than Live Journal. Everyone is on Facebook. Except me. I'm not on that shit roster. What I'm hoping is that Live Journal will make a comback. Think of it this way: Friendster came and went. MySpace came and went. Facebook came and will hopefully go too. And folks who abandoned LJ will start coming back. After their fads lose flavor like so much old chewing gum, they'll spit them out and return to their good old homes at LJ.
Maybe. I hope.
So...no more Greg. That really bums me out.