So, I've been surveying some abandoned buildings...

[hohum]

I may be romanticizing LJ in retrospect, but seeing its present state (ghost town!), I feel like something very special has been lost. Most people seem to have moved on-- I'm hoping to greener pastures, but I suspect Farmville and WoW may have played a part

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[johnnyfavorite]

call me crazy, but i don't put much stock in lj's health, or lack thereof. it is but one of the many manifestations of Mother Internet, which is obviously doing just fine, thanks.

it wouldn't mean much to you, but news.ycombinator.com is lj for entrepreneurs, as one example. and this is far from the first technological hangout i've gotten attached to.

[hohum]

Depends what you mean by "just fine." Oh man, am I turning into one of those people who says "when I was your age..."?

I've gotten attached to other communities, too, I just could swear they used to be easier to find. There's so much shit to sift through now!

[autumnia]

Your thoughts about LJ have been pretty spot-on. It has been more or less a ghost time these days, but I also think it depends on the people. Out of the old Buffy folks on my friends list, I see slayground and once in a while w455 as the only ones who have been really updating around here. I think everyone else has migrated over to the evilness of Facebook (which I am still rebelling against -- haven't signed up yet and am damn proud of it).

So I've migrated to a different fandom and found new friends for now. They've been posting more frequently at least and the conversations have been interesting and different. And maybe even a little more intellectually stimulating (though that could just be me reading into things as I get older). This has also led to my posting a little more on LJ now in addition to my other blog.

Oh, and there's also Dreamwidth now too, in addition to LJ. But so far, the audience isn't as big there as it is here.

But any rate, I really am looking forward to your updates. :-)

[hohum]

Facebook is kinda evil. :) I mainly use it for the chess application, to be honest. Kinda like how I only use MySpace for the music uploads...

I don't understand the addition of Dreamwidth... how is it distinct from LJ?

:) I'm not quite sure what type of updates I'll be making yet. Maybe I'll revert into angsty rambles, just out of old habit.

[autumnia]

From what I gathered from friends & family, they are on Facebook to either post photos or to play Farmville. Sigh.

As for Dreamwidth, it's not all that different from LJ. It's even based off the same code (though, it's much cleaner and easier to work with from a technical standpoint). I've heard of people migrating over to DW because of some craziness on LJ a while back (LJ deleting/removing accounts or something along those lines in relation to fandoms -- I can't remember the exact issue; and some other new functionality of integrating FB and Twitter and losing one's privacy) but that's about it. I have a DW account so I can post/reply to people who are in the same fandom as I'm in, plus use it as a backup for LJ.

Angsty rambles, posts about nothing... that's all fine with m. :-)

[redcalx]

Facebook is the equivalent to having a steaming pile of manure in your house to keep the flies off your dinner. I think the cool folks are still on LJ - maybe they've learned to distill their thoughts into fewer but higher quality posts.

[hohum]

Perhaps much, much, much fewer... ha.

[redcalx]

heh. What is the sound of one hand clapping? (or one person blogging)

[hohum]

kwned

[johnnyfavorite]

couple of things, before i forget.

you mentioned wanting to work for yourself. i think it's great that such a thing is already in your mind. i couldn't even conceive of such a thing until i was in my late thirties. my experience is that i've tried, and it's a lot harder than it looks. if i am ever successful at such a venture, it will be because i teamed up with somebody who can do the ugly parts that i can't.

a couple of weeks ago, this woman named noirin shirley accused a twitter employee of groping her at ApacheCon. anywhere it might get discussed on the 'tubes is likely to go up in flames, right? well, look at this: discussion at hacker news.

i tell you whut, paul graham has cracked the secret code to forcing people to be civil on the internets. if lj is really on the decline, i'd sure love to find a way to apply his secret sauce to a new, better site.

[hohum]

I know it's hard-- at least, now I do. I think I was pretty expectant when I was younger. My virtue of having awesomeness, magical things would fall in my lap. (Awesome = entitled?) I doubt my abilities in regard to leadership, executing, and so on, considering how inconsistent and impractical I can be. I'll pick up more tricks in the next few years and figure something out-- that's my hope.

That is a pretty civil discussion considering the content, yeah. I hate to say this, but it was almost a little dull, even. Not that I want a bunch of posts in all caps and drama, but...

[hohum]

by virtue* I should be able to edit my comments!

[wappenshaw]

I might identify with that WoW comment.... *cough*

I do think that I have stopped posting so much on LJ since joining Facebook. Here's the thing though - I don't really say much on Facebook either. I just mainly read, and I guess there's more to read from people over there, since ya know, most everyone is there.

At the same time, I'm not entirely the "real me" on Facebook. It's the mask I wear in certain groups that has to be worn when they're all joined together at the hip on my friends list. Here...there's a small list of friends, and they're there because they really do know me. More than Facebook ever will.

I dunno...your post makes me wish I actually posted more on here. I was always known for being the Graphic Novel girl. Or maybe I just don't have much graphic novel-ness in my life these days. That could be the case too, sadly.

[hohum]

Hey, Ker. :) You can always do both. That's what I'm doing.

[wappenshaw]

Hi Kristen. :) This is truth... although I must admit, sometimes I wonder where all the hours in the day go. (And no, it's not ALL to WoW. I blame a few other things for that too. lol)