Question: Why do you write?

[bobquasit]

Once again, I'm late for bed. But I've got to squeeze in one post before I sleep.

I've been thinking about popularity on LJ a lot ever since I was put on that "LiveJournal As A Social Medium" panel at Arisia. Too much, to be honest. It's hard for me to think about the subject without eventually feeling like a whore.

Because most - hell, all,

Comments

[tprjones]

All because people don't comment doesn't mean they aren't reading. For my own reasons, I have to break down your posts into two sorts: political and non-political. Your political posts I refrain from comment simply because I don't want to get my Anarcho-Capitalist fanatacism all over your nice Socialistic blog (i.e. I'm usually your extreme opposite, and I don't want to be an unwelcome sight in your comments threads by always disagreeing with you

[dancing_kiralee]

I think of it as a social contract... my journal is me, promoting me, and yes, I hope to get a response out of it, and feel pretty bad when I don't.

I pay for the privelege of talking about myself by listening to other people, and responding to them, as, for example, here.

Yes, I'm still talking about my own perspective on things (It's hard not to talk from ones own perspective) but I'm also saying that you're cool, and what you thought and wrote seems interesting and valid and all that.

Instead of being a salespitch or a monologue it's a dialogue.

Kiralee

[klyfix]

Hmmm.....

I see my LJ posts partially as a replacement for those silly "Hey, look at this thing that I think is Cool!" emails I used to throw out so much. And the other part, I suppose is a lazy way of writing about whatever I feel like writing about.

Now, considering how few replies I get (on a whole page of my recent posts I see an indication of a whoppin' four replies, plus the email I got from the "Van Von Hunter" cartoonist) I probably should just quit if I'm looking for replies. It would be nice to get replies, some indication that I'm not just writing total crap. But it's typing practice if nothing else.

On the other hand, hmm, I do seem to get more responses to my posts in some webcomic forums. Actually, a whole lot more responses. Probably because I'm writing about something that obviously the readers are actually interested in; I'm sure that most of what I write about in LJ while amusing to me is of utterly no interest to the few people who glance at it.