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LJ's future
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LJ is less popular than Facebook and Twitter, and I have an idea for living on that kind of Internet.
Full description of the ideaI still like LJ, specifically for posts like this my most recent one, which allow me to go into excruciatingly long and dull detail on what I'm thinking, instead of
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2) Aren't there enough of these services around already? tinyurl, bit.ly, etc. etc. etc.
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(1) a tinyurl service just for LJ
(2) making it easy to link to LJ posts from Facebook/Twitter/etc
I don't see the point of (1).
I can see that (2) would be useful for some people, although I would use it rarely if ever myself.
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I don't use Facebook, nor Twitter and I guess, well maybe..., I'm not the only one who doesn't care for those kind of network stuff...
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That could build trust for LJ short-links.
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Also, it's not really going to encourage new people to come over to LJ. They especially won't create an account to read public entries, and if they already have an account they won't really need the headsup on an external service.
I think what you're talking about already exists to a degree with Facebook as well (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=279&q=facebook&lang=en_LJ).
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