MAKE NEW FRIENDS BUT KEEP THE OLD

[nightangelca]

~* INTERNATIONAL FRIENDING MEME*~
Posted by elfy

I occasionally bemoan the end of the wild west days of the internet when I had a tendency to meet a lot more new people... largely because I was less cautious with my content and also didn't have much of a choice but to meet new people because most of the people on the internet were strangers, not people

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[baka_yu]

I've somehow started the alternative to complete strangers: befriend the friends of my friends too! Unconcious thing, but it works really well so far. And friending memes are a good way too.

[nightangelca]

My f-list isn't active enough anymore that I encounter too many friends-of-friends, unfortunately. (Prior to elfy's meme, out of the 200+ people on my flist, there are now only about three active posters plus a couple of semi-professional bloggers/BNFs whom I don't know personally.) I also think a large part of it is that I'm no longer an active participant (or lurker, as the case mostly was) in any fandom. So I'm quite out of the loop! Are non-fandom friending memes a thing on LJ these days?

[baka_yu]

That is a lot of inactive journals on your list then!
I do find most people in fandoms, though, so I can't really tell you anything about the non-fandom ones. I see some from time to time, but it's nothing big, as far as I can tell.
It's a shame, really, that some parts of LJ are simply gone since I love the site itself. As nice as other platforms can be, there is something about the opportunity to really communicate here that I like. Twitter and sites like tumblr are more immediate, but especially the second one isn't leaving much room to actually speak to people. And personally, I hate facebook.

[nightangelca]

It really is a lot of inactives! There was a time when my f-list was super-active, but I think it was around the time of the LJRP migration that people began really splintering off. Most of my former LJ friends are now on plurk and/or tumblr, but I really don't like either of those platforms for much the same reasons that you mentioned -- I'm very text-heavy and enjoy longer conversations, so neither is really functional for me.

I'm actually mostly on Facebook these days, as it's the most active social media platform with the largest volume of my friends. (Which I think is partially related to working in theatre. There's a lot of theatre people with a lot of FB friends on FB, I think because you meet a lot of people just by being in the business, most jobs are relatively short-term, and there's so much geographical spread. You might make really good friends working on a two-month-long gig in a city where neither of you actually live, scheduling means that you generally don't get to see people whom you aren't currently working with

[cybastov]

~* INTERNATIONAL FRIENDING MEME *~ Posted by elfy I occasionally bemoan the end of the wild west day