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[stanleylieber]

'It could be argued that LiveJournal represents a semi-private sphere, a safe space of enclosure which came about as a means of resisting a male-dominated social environment: the open issue-blog link economy, based on point-scoring and demolishing an opponent’s opinion, in the name of learned authority. Within the semi-private LiveJournal sphere,

Comments

[robotar]

I notice more racial diversity as well. I made a count once, and a disproportionate number of my friends list are female and Asian American. This was completely unintentional! It must be the circles I move in on LiveJournal (?).

[stanleylieber]

For me there seems to be a large proportion of Eastern Europeans and Asians.

[stanleylieber]

I seem to have a reasonably even distribution, which isn't true of most of the other forums and social sites I participate in.

[kore]

i like the part about the A-list, although i feel uncertain if that is true. i am probably just clueless. it's like a Society (victorian age type) of bloggers. i've also never heard of livejournal bashing. inteeeresting.

[stanleylieber]

I think livejournal has evolved what amounts to a reputation system, with the friends list, that is absent from many blog systems.

[silenceinspades]

when i first joined/got a livejournal, i had already heard the bashing from my 'computer oriented' friends. i had also noticed that for a while it did seem that mostly teenage girls were on it. but, it seems mostly teenage girls are on all the social network websites, myspace, friendster ect. wait, could be that i'm just searching out teenage girls.

i agree with the issue of blogs being 'excluding' and 'controlling'. seems a lot of people (though not all) with widely read blogs believe they are rock stars, or at least famous authors or matt dillon or something important. that is something you don't really see on lj.

[stanleylieber]

It seems like on livejournal the comments can sometimes take on almost as much weight, and spur as much interest, as the post they fall under.

[silenceinspades]

DUH!

(i believe i've proved your point. you can thank me at any time.)

[stanleylieber]

[sarmoung]

Hmm, thinking of Momus, I noticed today that the recent tangential and prolific Click Opera presence nicepimmelkarl has but one friend listed and that's yourself! It's about time we had some LJ drama around these parts. It's what we're known here for, apparently.

[stanleylieber]

He looked so lonely, just sitting there!

His disorienting otherness

[klasensjo]

nicepimmelkarl is fascinating. The poem he wrote today on click opera was phenomenal. I liked the way it disintegrated. I'm surprised Momus doesn't seem to appreciate his disorienting otherness nicepimmelkarl!
There are these individuals who completely disregard social protocol and yet seem to have a lot of imagination going...I like it. Anything is possible. Rosseau would be proud of this noble savage...and you're probably right, he bears more than a passing resemblance to KarlAnders.

[antebellumcafe]

He's just jealous 'cause he has no friends.

[stanleylieber]

I would have friended him, if he only had a livejournal.