Measured Hooky

[lushlush]

At work, at random, I thought of LiveJournal and was suddenly hit with a burning curiosity of how things might be going, so I decided to log back in and check out my feed to see if anyone was still out there.

So: out of hundreds of LJ friends, only one person is left consistently updating their journal.

I remember, at some point, I really loved

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[odobenidae]

calculurking

Thank goodness for LJ email alerts!

Might be advantageous to search for what you want in what we're given. Sure, there's reddit upvoting & FB thumbs-upping & general YouTube tomfoolery, but there are good elements to be found. Depth's available on FB, I'm sayin'! Being discerning with commentary is my bag, primarily because I still want even menial commentary to have some semblance of impact or thought. I never wrote an LJ comment without striving for a couple layers. That may sound really pretentious.

My lady still writes here sometimes -- she and I have been together "on the outside" for 14 years now -- and a couple others come back occasionally. But yeah, I miss the old days, too. Am likely a better employee now that it's not so tempting to read LJ for hours!

[lushlush]

Hola! I always appreciate your comments, friend. Not pretentious at all! With smart-shaming being the vogue these days, it's really refreshing to see people thinking and wanting to make an impact with their brains.

You're one of the few friends I've made purely on le eljay, so it sucks that cutting the platform out of your life (or simply forgetting it exists) means inadvertently cutting off the people you've communicated with exclusively through it, yaknowwhatImean?

Btw, "on the outside" makes it sound like LiveJournal is jail (or asylum?). Regards to your lady and I hope she keeps on writing!

[lushlush]

> Am likely a better employee now that it's not so tempting to read LJ for hours!

LOL, I'm still at work. :D

[inklingfair]

Am I that lone LJ friend? Hahaha! The reason I still update here is because I started this journal for myself, to keep a record of my musings. That I made good friends here was a bonus. Some of them still update here, but most of them I also follow on Facebook and/or Twitter.

I still love reading blog entries, much much more than mindlessly scrolling through feeds. And I write more here than there. I used to have a Wordpress, but it just wasn't home, if that makes sense. It was too real.

[lushlush]

Sorry, I got so excited that I sent you a barrage of messages elsewhere and didn't reply here!

I'm curious about the "too real" - what makes it more real than, say, LJ?

[loveisrationed]

I for one will never leave LJ.

I love it more than any other social media platform. And I am happy to see you posting again, Leics.

[lushlush]

Rain! Haven't heard from you in a while. Have you been back to Manila since you left?

You seem to be the only person left writing LJ entries like clockwork. Everyone else on my friends list writes sporadically if they're still on here.

[loveisrationed]

I like writing here, Leica. I do not like posting notes on Facebook, and keeping things close to the chest can sometimes be unnerving. I have to get my thoughts out somehow, and I treat LJ as a healthy outlet for these thoughts.

[angelamaria]

So true hahaha. Hi!