A new year and a look back: 12 months on LiveJournal.

[bironic]

Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of my first post. Tonight heralds the start of autumn and the commencement of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. (A very happy New Year to those who are observing.) Altogether a good time for a little recap. There was going to be a bunch of ficlets to celebrate, but they're not done yet, so it'll just be

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[nightdog_barks]

L'shanah tovah, bironic.

How has LiveJournal affected your life?

I think in two main ways -- I've gotten to know people I never would've met in RL -- folks in the UK, in France, Australia, Canada (lots of Canadians, for some reason!), Singapore, Switzerland ... the list goes on and on. And they're all "real people", even though I've never met them and I'm not likely to EVER meet them. I know more about some of these people than I know about my own relatives. Whether this is a good thing or bad remains to be seen.

Also. I've learned I can write. And apparently it's not too bad (I say it this way because I have a permanent inferiority complex ingrained in my personality). I still have trouble believing that I can make stuff up, write it down, and complete strangers like it enough to leave comments on it. That's just ... amazing to me. I am perplexed and have trouble believing it all just won't suddenly go away.

(How) have you changed your posting style since starting? I think lately my personal posts have become shorter because I'

[bironic]

Thank you, and to you and your husband as well. May you have a sweet and healthy year filled with joy and lots of good fic (if that's not redundant).

I've gotten to know people I never would've met in RL ... And they're all "real people", even though I've never met them and I'm not likely to EVER meet them.

Oh, yes. I've definitely experienced a similar thing, though not because of LiveJournal, but rather because of fandom in general. After reading fanfic and lurking for several years, I started actively participating through the conference/convention scene, which often involved chatting with people online months before we met in person. To get into detail would entail a huge post, but suffice it to say that I've made some very cool friends through fandom who live all over the place too, and that's given me the excuse to travel to places like London and Copenhagen (this summer) to visit them. That positive experience does make me want to try to meet some LJ friends at some point in the future, no matter how far away they may live.

[daasgrrl]

Eep, do I talk that much? And of course, I have to post another comment in order to ask :)

LJ eats a lot of time - I tend to be a bit all-or-nothing so I sometimes feel like I 'have' to keep up with it more than I want to. But on the other hand, it's a fascinating little world unto itself.

[bironic]

No, no, it's a good thing. :)

Hoo boy, is LJ a time-eater, especially when the obsessive-compulsive part of my personality insists that I must know about every House episode review out there or every House/Wilson story posted. The fandom is small enough to make that sort of crazy goal theoretically possible (as opposed to Harry Potter, which was my primary fandom before this), which doesn't help.

[fallen_arazil]

Yay! I made it on the list! ... only five though? I can do better, I promise!

Seriously, it's almost pathetic how much I feel like livejournal has enriched my life. Since I jumped into the House fandom with both feet in May, my f-list has gone from three ppl I know IRL to 24 ppl, 17 of them from House fandom, and all of them brilliant. I live in the suburbs in a teeny-tiny state, and there simply isn't enough ppl around here interested in the same things I'm interested in for me to fangirl with!

THe only way I might have changed my posting style is, since I got involved in fanfic, I'm a little less likely to post personal entries. I'm always thinking 'people friend my to read my fanfic, not to hear about my personal shit' =P

Woo-whoo! Liveljoural! *cheers*

~Djinn

[bironic]

Seriously, it's almost pathetic how much I feel like livejournal has enriched my life. Since I jumped into the House fandom with both feet in May, my f-list has gone from three ppl I know IRL to 24 ppl, 17 of them from House fandom, and all of them brilliant.

If you're pathetic, you're in excellent company. I'd say I've made about a dozen good online House-discussing friends since joining fandom in... April, I think, who are indeed brilliant (well, I wouldn't have it any other way :) ) and excellent writers and debaters and oh God how wonderful is it to have people to talk to about fannish stuff?

And I definitely identify with the drop in personal posts after getting friended by fannish people. This journal is about what I want to post and not what I think people want to hear (or, rather, a combination of both, but should be mostly the former), but yeah, that's what happened.

*cracks knuckles and goes after comment #5*

[renoir_girl]

How has LiveJournal affected your life? (How) have you changed your posting style since starting? Did you make promises to yourself that you've kept or broken?

LJ has had a huge impact. I started on LJ very briefly in the fall of 2002, but then took it up seriously in December of 2003. With thanks to the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King fandom, I got to know a bunch of great people and a couple of real asses, with of course an expected amount who fell between. One of them became one of the best friends I've ever had. I've also now got a gardening mentor who has inspired me to do so much more outside the house and away from the computer than I think I'd have ever done without her. So, yeah, people are the important part

[bironic]

And to you too, Mrs. Married Woman! Though you have wed an infidel, or whatever they're calling them these days.