LJ vs FB
Wow, I'd forgotten how pleasant it is to post and read things on LiveJournal.
I only joined FaceCrack because 1.) it was a good venue for advertising my business due to its massive popularity, and 2.) so many people stopped using LJ and started posting events & such over there instead that I never knew what was going on. The FB user interface is so cluttered it has always driven me nuts, and there are lots of other things that pick my ass about it but I won't bore you. Yet despite having avoided it like the plague for months, recently I found myself looking at it almost daily.
Yet despite how much I have always liked posting here, when I go to read my friends' page it's like crickets are chirping. Updates are generally few and infrequent. Quite a contrast to FB, where there is a constant stream of one-line junk every hour like "X and Y are now friends" and "X is at Y location" and "X got 2887423656 points playing Farmville" or whatever. I just don't care about that stuff, and unfortunately there's an awful lot of it. Write what your day was about, and then I'll care (although that being said, people so seem to write content more often over there, although the bits are much shorter than tends to get written on LJ - myself included).
But whatever, we'll see how it goes. I gave up my paid account here not because I didn't want the extras anymore, but because I'm one of the 5 people left out of 100+ friends who still seem to use it. OK, I'm exaggerating a bit, but still. Anyway, that decision may not make much sense to you, but it's hard to explain. Well, it works for me.
Gotta go, monsoon thunderstorm commencing!
I only joined FaceCrack because 1.) it was a good venue for advertising my business due to its massive popularity, and 2.) so many people stopped using LJ and started posting events & such over there instead that I never knew what was going on. The FB user interface is so cluttered it has always driven me nuts, and there are lots of other things that pick my ass about it but I won't bore you. Yet despite having avoided it like the plague for months, recently I found myself looking at it almost daily.
Yet despite how much I have always liked posting here, when I go to read my friends' page it's like crickets are chirping. Updates are generally few and infrequent. Quite a contrast to FB, where there is a constant stream of one-line junk every hour like "X and Y are now friends" and "X is at Y location" and "X got 2887423656 points playing Farmville" or whatever. I just don't care about that stuff, and unfortunately there's an awful lot of it. Write what your day was about, and then I'll care (although that being said, people so seem to write content more often over there, although the bits are much shorter than tends to get written on LJ - myself included).
But whatever, we'll see how it goes. I gave up my paid account here not because I didn't want the extras anymore, but because I'm one of the 5 people left out of 100+ friends who still seem to use it. OK, I'm exaggerating a bit, but still. Anyway, that decision may not make much sense to you, but it's hard to explain. Well, it works for me.
Gotta go, monsoon thunderstorm commencing!