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May 29, 2005 00:54

I was talking to my friend Ashley, and I made a comment. I said it was sad how the community is on livejournal. Then, literally not an hour after that, Angelica made a comment to me about how she found it incredible that people make so many comments to the most pointless ramblings on livejournal, but relatively no one commented on the story about my graduation gift.

I posted the story about my graduation gift on the forums of somethingawful.com, and it was almost unanimously hailed as one of the greatest, saddest, most well written stories most of the people who replied have ever read. I received over 250 replies to my story, over 14,000 people read it. I know that's not a ratio to be proud of, but is that a common ratio? 14,000:250?

People ask me why I never write in my livejournal anymore, that I'm such a good writer and I should write more so people can read it. When the time finally comes for me to write, you'd think some of those people would give me feedback, maybe they'd let me know how my words and stories had an impact on them, maybe they could even offer a simple "thanks" for sharing. I figured that replying to something I felt the need to share with a bunch of people I either don't know or don't care about was the least someone could do.

I look at Angelica's friends page quite often when I'm bored. She has more friends on livejournal than I do, because my friends on livejournal are people that I actually want to see my friends only posts, it's not an e-penis competition to see how many people I can claim to call friends. Anyway, I look at her friends page and I see all these girls write in livejournal about the most inane, pointless, repititious garbage on the planet and all of their little e-friends and scene idiots comment away like they just read the most revolutionary ideas that anyone in the world has ever dared to think and put to words. In reality, they read poorly thought out, even more poorly executed shit about how a relationship that no one really cares about is going, about the show they went to (to see the band whose name is half of a paragraph that makes no sense, or a string of 2-4 words taken from a random sentence) about how depressed they are because someone told them they're not scene enough for the "the look away from the camera a.k.a. the someone should really save ever picture we take and every word we write and show them to us in 30 years so we can kill ourselves club". Somehow, people muster up the brain power to comment on the most pointless livejournal entries they can find.

Then there are people on livejournal like myself and Matt Saunders. I have looked at a metric shit ton of livejournals, and I have found a handful of journals that I would read more often because of worded content. I would categorize my livejournal and my cousins livejournal as two I would look at regularly just to check for updated written content. I won't brag on myself, but I consider Matt a very good writer. I've looked at his journal, and I see that hardly anyone comments on his, he and I share the same "problem".

I think it is bullshit that some people can spend 5 minutes to upload shitty photography then write a few paragraphs that are hardly held together by a single thought, idea or motif, and then go to receive upwards of 30 comments. While, on the other hand, some people can share heart-wrenching stories, wonderful ideas or recollections of events, spending hours to accurately describe and nit-pick their words, only to receive next to no comments either thanking, or sharing similar stories.

Livejournal, only topped by Myspace, is the shittiest community on the internet and I await the day it fails and people have to flock to find some new way group up and share horrible photography of themselves, create new facets for their internet elitism, and to inevitably make people feel that they are inferior.

I'd like to hear peoples ideas. I will also laugh if someone comments due to feeling singled out.
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