Oh hey, world. I never forgot you.
The truth is that I'm too easily entranced by this facebook business. That coupled with the steady defection of LJ-pals from LJ-land and the events that occurred last year (described a few posts back) involving the discovery of the abhorrent secret life a formerly close friend who was one of the reasons I joined LJ in the first place have left me
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But beyond that, I think the idea that the only problem with LJ is that people are defecting, and if they didn't there would be no problem, needs to be examined. The life purpose of all of these platforms is instrumental, not aesthetic. An abacus that no one wants to use cannot by definition be the best abacus.
For whatever reason, there is something about brevity, immediacy, and transparency that make for a social networking tool people want to use, and something about halfway-cloaked identity and an emphasis on self-analytical copy over other types of content, that's attracting cobwebs and little else.
I'm not going to be too sad when LJ is effectively over with, because it served its purpose at its time. And I won't assume that there's never going to be another place where people can confess, solicit sympathy, or think out loud about themselves. Maybe that place won't be online. And maybe it shouldn't be.
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