Adelante! To Xanga?

[thewhitemage]

Recently, I have been considering just abandoning this Live Journal and beginning to post on my Xanga instead. No one goes there, so if I did it without telling anyone, I’d have a nice place to just record my daily thoughts

Comments

[raistlinx]

ok, i'll try and break this down.

people not commenting doesn't mean they don't care. it means:

a. nothing in the entry sparked a reaction big enough to respond. this is the same thing as you being on the phone with eWest and telling him a huge story about earthbound and he goes "look, josh. i. don't. care. ok?" in his eWest voice. no one is going to comment saying something like that, so they just finish reading and go on to the next person on the friend's list. again, they do care (unlike eWest in his example), they just don't have a reaction. the ken helman entry got lots of comments because people love helman and they love helman news, so they responded. an entry all about rachel won't get anything because...well...no one knows who she is.

b. complaining about comments is a sign that you're giving in to the LJ fandom. comments don't mean anything. they aren't a key to glory or salvation. they are just a sign that someone else has nothing better to do with their time then post on LJ. if you really want lots of comments, it's very easy to do. increase the number of people reading your journal as much as you can. you don't have to know them, just get them to add you. where do you find them? communities or interests. go to a video game community and find members ont here you like. go to their journal and say "hey you're awesome, FFVI is awesome too. let's be friends." no one is going to say no to that.

keep doing that until you have 100-200 friends, and then the comments will fly in.

c. yes, LJ's are for online recognition. the whole concept of a public journal is just stupid unless you are a celebrity where people care about everything you do every second. you have to just accept this for what it is, a forum. it's just like any other forum, except you have "territory." that means in your LJ you can say whatever the fuck you want, delete any comments you find offensive and ban people if they get too annoying. freedom of speech to the FULLEST. the only MOD of the forum is you. it's nice to be able to speak your mind with no one else's intervention sometimes. i got tired of it, but drama whores love it.

d. don't go to xanga.

e. join some communities. there are millions out there. meet people.

[thewhitemage]

You're right of course. The lack of comments don't bother me as much as the thought that people may not care. It is good to know that you care enough to write that out for me, thanks. Hahah. (That is something that Eric would do...) But yes, I suppose I understand about the lack of comments though.

I might join some more communities if I posted more often. I would like to post more often, if I could find the time to do any of the things that I want to do more of. That would definitely be a way to get more comments, if that was what I truly did desire.

I think that 'public forum' is about the best way that I've really heard online journals described as.

[evilcharles]

And the fact that the entries are usually written for yourself means there isn't much to comment on. Or you go so deep people are afraid of looking stupid, whichever. Anyway, the point is that people do really care, it's when you start believing that they don't when you'll truly believe you lost the battle.

[thewhitemage]

Are you trying to say I'm not interesting enough to comment about? Foolishness! Although yeah, people do not like to comment on deep stuff, I've noticed...

lol...lost the battle.

[goddessofwhine]

I don't comment on deep stuff, I just think "wow, Josh...i really liked that" and the only comment I'd make is "yeah..i agree" which is dumb, like this comment, but I felt like saying something so there ya go. Don't move to Xanga because I like reading your posts.

[evilcharles]

Yes! I hate leaving a comment along the lines of "yes, that is true" it makes me seem like I don't really care about what you had to say but am more interested in replying to get recognition for replying. Does that nake sense?

[goddessofwhine]

exactly! makes sense to me

[thewhitemage]

Hahah. Thanks awesome. Thank ya. I know what you guys mean. Thanks for the comments...even though, as I said, I wasn't fishing for them with this post! Haha. ;)