What Livejournal Terms of Service changes mean for LJ's future - and why I'm sticking with it

[strannik01]

Back in Monday (very early Tuesday morning Moscow time), SUP, a company that owns Livejournal gave its users one hell of an unpleasant surprise

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[solarbird]

For the record, I'm also still using my account to comment on the journals of people who stay. (To wit: hiya! :D ) I'm disallowing comments on my own LJ, but do allow people to use their LJ accounts to comment at Dreamwidth.

And I'm making sure to violate the TOS on a regular basis. Explicitly. ^_^

[tilia_tomentosa]

My whole online presence is a calculated risk anyway. Being a true post-Soviet person, I never mention anything that I absolutely don't want to get tracked on the Internet or even on the phone.

The only thing that I fear is having my journal suddenly deleted some day. I do keep copies of my most important entries on Word files, but I still don't like the idea.

[paradisekendra]

Me too. I'm with you 100%. So much of my life is on LJ. *fingers crossed*

[hettie_lz]

I, having probably one of the largest (in volume :)) LJ ever - do not care, to be honest. A blogpost makes a difference when it was written, and read. Now I would write it differently:). And all my post have already done what they intended to do.

[tilia_tomentosa]

I still miss the archives of that gay forum where I was a moderator. :(

LJ is like a book to me rather than a newspaper; my "newspaper" place is Facebook.

[paradisekendra]

Wow! Thanks for writing all that up. Yikes yikes yikes. Was LJ always Russian or did they overtake it? And are we to assume all existing accounts won't be deleted? Thanks again for writing!

LJ Users Stick Together,
Mercy, AKA Paradise

[hettie_lz]

not always, it took over 10 years and several sells

[flying_blind]

The first LiveJournal post, by the founder, Brad Fitzpatrick, on Mar. 18th, 1999, at 01:28 am, Portland, Oregon time. Everyone should make a pilgrimage to the digital shrine.

[paradisekendra]

Wow!!!!

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[hettie_lz]

Another thing we've talked with you about - whatever was written and read, is already written and read. And has made a difference, like any newspaper article:)

[strannik01]

But see, therein lies the difference between you and I. I save newspaper articles, precisely because they capture the world as it existed at the time, the way a more long-term perspective can't. As I've written upthread, I like being able to look back and see how I felt about [x] at the time.

But then, that's probably why I'll wind up like your mom, piles of periodicals wise - for better or for worse.

[hettie_lz]

:)))