Anybody here?

[thatwasjen]

I haven't checked LiveJournal in ages and ages -- are any of my friends still hanging out here? What are you saying on LJ that you're not able to say on Facebook (or Twitter, I should add, although I know that has a completely different function)?

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[starcat_jewel]

I'm still here, and I do a lot of talking about stuff I wouldn't dream of putting on Facebook. Con reports (containing sensitive business information that I want NOT to be public); "this is my life lately" posts which are too long for a limited-character format; and I'm starting an APA-archiving project, porting over journal-type entries from the 1990s, some of which also contain information that I don't want to be publicly accessible. Oh, and anything at all that I want to be able to FIND later -- Facebook has no tags, and no way to access posts you made a year (or even a month) ago.

Facebook is for sharing links with little or no commentary, and for coordinating events. Their business practices make me very reluctant to put anything significant about my life on there.

[thatwasjen]

Good points.

Of course, another thing about Facebook is its strong preference for real names. I see the advantage in that, but you're one of many people I followed from alt.callahans to LJ, and I still don't know the real names of some of that crowd! I edged away from LJ when the Russians took over, but I think it's an aspect of the online universe that I've been missing lately.

[dawntreader90]

also, i auto-crosspost from Dreamwidth just in case LJ Russians kill off LJ. i imported all my LJ settings and posts and comments Over Thar.

if you are interested in doing such a thing, let me know and i can get you an invite code. DW is the niceties of LJ without the Russian crap and outages. when LJ kept going down, Dreamwidth was there for posting. when LJ came back up, i'd get the entries cross-posted.

it has tags, archives, NO STOOPID UNREADABLE TIMELINE (ala FB), and is a clean system based on LJ code run by a baltimore woman.

[thatwasjen]

Yes, please, I think I may need to try that.

[pyratelady]

Still here.

The thing with me is, I'm either incredibly boring because I'm at home with a 3.5-year-old whom I think is brilliant and hilarious, but probably does exactly all the things that every other 3.5-year-old does.

On the other end of the spectrum, I have work-related drama that I can't write about (even in Friends Only) because I'd be indiscreet if I did.

So I end up bitching about the weather / lack of money / stoopid dog.

We are gardening, though... maybe I'll write about that. Maybe I'll write about EVERYTHING in one giant, disjointed post. Ack. That sounds tiring.

[dawntreader90]

i'm here!!! i post a lot MORE stuff here than fb because fb is too limiting in the # of characters. i also don't post personal stuff on fb that i wouldn't want The World to read about and there are so few people reading this now. this is still my personal journal and log of events and thoughts. if people comment, great. if not, that's okay too.

fb is just chit chat and knowing what is happening with faire and such. and it has no snoopy.

[skivee]

I still here, though I don't actually post that often.

[blueeowyn]

I'm here. I find LJ much easier to keep up with than FB because the posts don't rearrange due to some bizarre formula that keeps changing. For me, FB is primarily to play a game and not put anything important on because I 'friended' people for game reasons but don't know them well enough to share things with.

For me LJ has longer posting options, tagging, calendar stuff, and the ability to easily lock things to different people. For example, if I want to natter about something personal to me, I may lock out the people who are not as close to me. I have the default "Friends" group, a "People" group, and a "Close Friends" group and a handful of others (including one for me and Java that we can access for tracking purchases.

Basically anything I write her of ME is not going to be put on FB and I don't have (or want) a Twitter account. LJ is a blog, facebook is a stack of PostIt (tm) notes that people re-arrange randomly.