Maybe it's just me

[ladyfiona]

But do you find Facebook to be.... impersonal? I mean, no one writes more than 6 words at a time it seems! I have no idea as to what anyone is really doing or thinking. Very odd.

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[novaya_zemlya]

I got an account through work. The association uses it as a networking tool. But you're right. I much prefer LJ as a more intimate tool of communication. I use LJ to keep up with friends and to ruminate on occasion. Facebook is much too LOOK AT ME!!! public.

Besides, if I really want to do business networking, then Linkedin is the site for that. It's got an appropriately formal format that I like for that kind of contact. Now, let us continue with the inappropriate cyber touching! ;-)

[ex_cortana]

Facebook encourages use of the Status message, which is along the lines of Twitter status: meant for short messages less than 140 characters that answers the question: "What are you doing right now?"

So, the social convention is shorter is better. The Notes application is meant in more of a blog format, similar to what LJ evokes. I wrote a couple entries on synchronous/asynchronous communication styles like this on my blog recently:

Twitter, Facebook, Email & Blogs
Thinking About Twitter Some More

They're worth a read if you're trying to understand a bit more about the differences in medium.

[mokey4]

I like facebook for the pictures. Without the pictures I think I'd find it pretty useless. LJ is much more interesting.

[nebulachica]

I agree with that! I mainly want to see what people look like now, in the case of former high school classmates. But yeah, the social norm now has been reduced to one-line messages.

I still think about how we used to communicate before Facebook, LJ, and even email. People called each other, and we even *gasp* wrote letters!

[ladyfiona]

LOL- I know! Perish the thought ;)

[mokey4]

Oh yeah, LETTERS! I used to be big into letters. And I talked on the phone a lot more than I do now.