Ppl who say LJ is dying are related to/actually are the ppl who say FB is dying. Lots of times they say it on the forum that is supposedly dying. Either you get enough out of a forum/medium that you keep putting yourself into that space, or you don't. Same for discos as it is for BBSes and so on. Kids today act like they invented socializing online, but we've been doing it for a generation now. What my rotary dial-recollecting generation (and I suspect yours) need to do is to stop treating everything that happens on a screen as something not-real. Conversations are real, even when they suffer from being in text, with time lag, and every other pain we suffer as our imaginations race beyond the speed of Al Gore's fabulous machine. I journal, and have been doing it here for more than ten years. Before this, I had a brief online journal on a website on GeoCities. Before that, spiral-bound notebooks. FB is not a journal. LJ is a journal you let your friends see. FB is like your locker or something. Maybe there's no analogy, but kids still use it to talk to each other, a little. So it's not dead yet. Maybe on its MySpace way out. But I really do miss GeoCities. It's impossible to find good web hosting any more. The old personal forums of the 90s are gone.
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Date: 2010-05-26 02:14 am (UTC)Either you get enough out of a forum/medium that you keep putting yourself into that space, or you don't. Same for discos as it is for BBSes and so on. Kids today act like they invented socializing online, but we've been doing it for a generation now. What my rotary dial-recollecting generation (and I suspect yours) need to do is to stop treating everything that happens on a screen as something not-real. Conversations are real, even when they suffer from being in text, with time lag, and every other pain we suffer as our imaginations race beyond the speed of Al Gore's fabulous machine.
I journal, and have been doing it here for more than ten years. Before this, I had a brief online journal on a website on GeoCities. Before that, spiral-bound notebooks. FB is not a journal. LJ is a journal you let your friends see. FB is like your locker or something. Maybe there's no analogy, but kids still use it to talk to each other, a little. So it's not dead yet. Maybe on its MySpace way out. But I really do miss GeoCities. It's impossible to find good web hosting any more. The old personal forums of the 90s are gone.