well, apparently you all do still read this journal!
in light of recent lj comments, myspace responses, e-mails, instant messages, phone calls, and many other forms of modern communication, this journal will remain open until i begin to believe it is becoming obsolete again.
i have one last request from you all. give livejournal a second chance (or first chance, as the case may be). i realize myspace and facebook are easier, and you can keep in contact with more people, but is having 214 little icons of people you barely know really keeping in touch with "friends?" a livejournal is a personal thing - it's a means by which a person can expose some rather deep, meaningful ideas, or recount some interesting thing that happened to them, or post pictures, or pieces of artwork. by making you a friend on livejournal, that person is inviting you directly into their life, and vice versa. myspace and facebook can connect people, but can they really join people in the way that livejournal does?
i know, from personal experience, that livejournal has the ability to keep people in contact who, had they been myspace friends, would have drifted apart long ago. i have friend's journals on here from people i have not seen in four years, people i haven't been able to talk to in months or years. i still get to read about them - it's like having a window into their life. it's comforting to know how they're fairing, even when they're separated by distance, or lifestyle. in addition, when i do finally get a chance to contact those "long lost friends," i actually have current things to talk about, rather than asking "so how have you been for the past 3 years since you fell off the face of the earth?"
post your life. comment about other people's lives. make friends. make enemies. have disagreements. have astonishing agreements on topics you never thought you'd agree on. take surveys. ask questions. post song lyrics. become a slave to HTML and edit your livejournal's appearance to better reflect your personality. it's all open for you if you give it a chance.
stop collecting little icons on myspace. you don't know those people... i mean really know them - and you never will, because they'll never be more than a little icon to you. if a person's icon has meaning, it had meaning before it was even on your myspace. if a person's icon had no meaning, putting it on your top 8 will never put it in the top 8 in your heart.
...and don't give me the "myspace has a blog!" excuse. it's a crappy blog because there is no easy way to read blogs for 352 different named-icons whom you dare call friends.
thank you for all of your input, it was greatly appreciated!
- the management
i have one last request from you all. give livejournal a second chance (or first chance, as the case may be). i realize myspace and facebook are easier, and you can keep in contact with more people, but is having 214 little icons of people you barely know really keeping in touch with "friends?" a livejournal is a personal thing - it's a means by which a person can expose some rather deep, meaningful ideas, or recount some interesting thing that happened to them, or post pictures, or pieces of artwork. by making you a friend on livejournal, that person is inviting you directly into their life, and vice versa. myspace and facebook can connect people, but can they really join people in the way that livejournal does?
i know, from personal experience, that livejournal has the ability to keep people in contact who, had they been myspace friends, would have drifted apart long ago. i have friend's journals on here from people i have not seen in four years, people i haven't been able to talk to in months or years. i still get to read about them - it's like having a window into their life. it's comforting to know how they're fairing, even when they're separated by distance, or lifestyle. in addition, when i do finally get a chance to contact those "long lost friends," i actually have current things to talk about, rather than asking "so how have you been for the past 3 years since you fell off the face of the earth?"
post your life. comment about other people's lives. make friends. make enemies. have disagreements. have astonishing agreements on topics you never thought you'd agree on. take surveys. ask questions. post song lyrics. become a slave to HTML and edit your livejournal's appearance to better reflect your personality. it's all open for you if you give it a chance.
stop collecting little icons on myspace. you don't know those people... i mean really know them - and you never will, because they'll never be more than a little icon to you. if a person's icon has meaning, it had meaning before it was even on your myspace. if a person's icon had no meaning, putting it on your top 8 will never put it in the top 8 in your heart.
...and don't give me the "myspace has a blog!" excuse. it's a crappy blog because there is no easy way to read blogs for 352 different named-icons whom you dare call friends.
thank you for all of your input, it was greatly appreciated!
- the management