Quote of the Morning

[hummingwolf]

From a TechCrunch piece entitled "Can Anything Stop The Facebook Juggernaut?":
As usual, William Gibson put it best: “Facebook feels like a mall. Twitter feels like the street.” (Which I suppose makes Zynga the mall’s arcade.) It’s one thing to shop there occasionally, but quite another to be a full-fledged mallrat-and according to the stats, that’

Comments

[daisydumont]

lj is officially moribund. oh, sadness. well, it got too big for itself, so if a few million ljs fall unused, there are still good folks here!

[hummingwolf]

Agreed!

[nellorat]

It is amusing to read that LJ is dead or just inhabited by the Russians. I guess I'd just as soon be a bit under the cultural radar, frankly. This is the best follow-up to print sf-fandom I have found.

[hummingwolf]

I've never been involved in print fandom, but sometimes I still miss Usenet.

[supergee]

A pre-automobile street where you have to step around all the horseshit.

[hummingwolf]

So I suppose I should consider myself fortunate I've never had a Twitter account?

[hummingwolf]

Heh. I know some lovely people who use Facebook. I just wish they were here instead.