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I find that LJ has pretty-much replaced newsgroups in my online life, and a large fraction of my email as well. Many, though not all, of the people I need to keep in touch with are on it. Similarly, shared blogs like Slashdot and BoingBoing have replaced a lot of my magazine reading.
I'm not sure my direct interactions are suffering, though -- I'm a lot closer to the people I don't see face-to-face very often, and with the ones I do see on a daily basis it's possible to skip a lot of the "keeping up-to-date" preliminaries because we've usually both read each others' blogs.
I can see the good and the bad. The internet has helped me stay in contact with friends and loved ones because of its immediacy. And yet, I miss walking into a room and having everyone focused on all those present rather than cellphones, etc. I guess I am seeking that balance.
In some ways I feel a lot more " in the loop"chewt0yMay 17 2006, 09:14:06 UTC
I know about things that happen, at least in the week or two following instead of months later. I also feel that i don't get the same opportunities to be with people directly. It's good enough to read a person's journal, instead of and (mostly) not as well as face to face human interaction. I only get a chance to hear of great stuff after it's happened, cause lj is my social life for the most part. I hug you from here.
it doesn't substitute for your presence, my dear. However, it does replace those horde-of-addresses emails when the person is on LJ. My only problem is finding out who I might know elsewhere who might be on LJ and me not know it.
I am less likely to send individual emails when I have the same news to tell everyone and no real differentiation--hence, Lavendar wants individual emails and I can't give them--don't have time, really. She lives alone and has not the responsibilities I have, and at the end of the day, I just don't write many long newsy anythings.
Well, I like it alot. I feel like it has allowed me to keep up with friends who have moved away or who were not proximate to begin with. OTOH, I do wonder whether the fact that I tend not to repeat things I've posted, even if I don't know whether the person to whom I'm talking *has* read my journal, may be a problem. Hard to say. Plus, I journal for myself too. It is a memory of my days that my meat memory just isn't up to holding onto anymore.
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I'm not sure my direct interactions are suffering, though -- I'm a lot closer to the people I don't see face-to-face very often, and with the ones I do see on a daily basis it's possible to skip a lot of the "keeping up-to-date" preliminaries because we've usually both read each others' blogs.
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However, it does replace those horde-of-addresses emails when the person is on LJ. My only problem is finding out who I might know elsewhere who might be on LJ and me not know it.
I am less likely to send individual emails when I have the same news to tell everyone and no real differentiation--hence, Lavendar wants individual emails and I can't give them--don't have time, really. She lives alone and has not the responsibilities I have, and at the end of the day, I just don't write many long newsy anythings.
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