I go around a time or two, just to waste some time with you
My brother's wedding went off without too many screw ups, I've managed to trick Louise into living with me (or maybe the other way around), and through the constant application of cheap alcohol have managed to resign myself to paying the enormous fucking flood damage bill. All that's left is to move the rest of my possessions into the house, and
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(More on that if you need it, but I figured that you've already been told.)
Regarding LJ: As you say, (in my case) it's merely a twofold choice of 1) not putting anything personal on LJ any further, and 2) retaining the LJ account as a free account so I can follow my friends. I love them and really don't want to give that up.
Somehow I cannot countenance giving money to what amounts to be an abusive relationship. Granted, it doesn't affect me **personally** and that's what makes it so easy to ignore. They haven't hurt me in any way. Ignorance and inertia is what keeps people coming back for more abuse from bad service providers. Hell, you just had a heaping helping of that yourself... otherwise Service Master should have been out of business long ago.
But ignoring blatant violations of trust, respect and privacy as witnessed when an LJ Staffer posted a comment about a photo in an F-locked post... (and incidentally, showed the racy photo around to other staffers)... that's way over the line.
Many people use LJ to work out painful personal issues and for that reason have their accounts f-locked only. To know that LJ staff can and have violated that privacy - to know that when a complaint is filed that the LJ staffer only admits to "having the poor taste to comment" on the locked entry, and deleted his creeptastic "I'm watching you" comment - to know that LJ did nothing that the victim knows to punish the offender.
All of that points to a system rife for continuing abuse.
(TLDR, sorry about that)
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I think it's fine not to give money to livejournal if you're not satisfied with the service! I'm not judging anyone who's leaving, as I said in another comment. I think it's a logical way to show your opinion of the whole ordeal. I personally find it interesting where people draw the line on usage of a what they label as a bad service-- I mean, the majority of folks seem to go with, "I won't give them my money, but I'll still use the free functions." Which is fine; I just think this attitude is also what contributes to preventing a mass movement off the service.
This is where I'm going to lay my cards down and own up to my Horrible Person Moment #732, where I admit that I just don't really care about the latest issue. Mostly, this is because I'm where I am in my life right now; inline journal services fall somewhere way down on the list. I mean, I feel bad in the abstract that people don't feel safe, that there was a douchebag in the system. But there's a lot of douchebags out there, and a lot happening in the world, and as I said to Catt upthread, I just... don't have it in me to be outraged when there is so much more I could be railing or worrying about.
(And as I also said to Catt, Dreamwidth seems cool, but I'm frankly wary of them as well, from some past events.)
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As you say, everyone does what they feel they must. And also as you said above. Don't put things on the internet that you don't want people to know. (For some people, this means don't put anything on the internet at all, because you're too damn blinkered to even know how much it's full of fail. Yes, I'm looking at you, Elizabeth Moon.)
DW is just another service, like any other service. It should be used without being horrifically stupid and *users should be allowed to retain the illusion of privacy*. Hell, you know I work in IT; I've flat-out told the professionals who come here that "Yes, we do monitor where you go on the internet, so please don't be stupid about it."
Forget playing the horrible person card - that's pretty much polite nonsense. You're a person like any other - with both great and notsogreat qualities - and I never thought any less of you for making a decision and sticking to it. As you said, there's nothing on your journal that you're particularly concerned about, so your decision to stay is motivated by what's easist for you. And that's cool too.
Try not to be a stranger, okay?
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Heee hee, oh burn Elizabeth Moon. (Most of the time I work off the, "If I died tragically while showering and a parent, a work colleague, and a friend had to close all my tabs and my livejournal was open in one of them, would I die a second time from shame? If so, do not post it" principle. I don't know why all three of them would be closing my firefox tabs, but it works as a hypothetical situation.)
*HUG* You guys are awesome.
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And we also make a kick-ass lasagna that will leave you draped across your couch like a happy, overstuffed leopard.
The door is always open, lady. Just give me enough of an advance notice so I can throw on clothes. Otherwise things get kind of awkward. XD
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