the end of an era?

[mazzie]

I know there was a scare some months ago about livejournal ZOMG SHUTTING DOWN. But it seems like, especially since then, it seems to be sort of collapsing in on itself - at least among my friends. It seems like the rise in popularity of tiwtter and facebook is ushering livejournal to an obscure place, rarely visited.

with the glaring exception of furries and slash, of course. and that ... well, that can stay here.

Comments

[mazzie.livejournal.com]

I know! and I love your posts! I find that I see the "teaser" on FB, then look for it here rather than there, mostly because I feel less guilty about reading lj at work than facebook. I dunno why.

they definitely serve different needs, and I don't know if my needs are shaping to what is most available/satisfying in terms of the stimulation/response ratio (the heart of all addiction, right?), or that the majority of the people I "follow" in one medium or another are wandering off and I am following them. We may well be losing something in the trade, but maybe the era of navel gazing in several paragraphs for the world (or your selected audience) to see is passing.

Interestingly, the lion's share of people I know on facebook don't twitter, but I would guess everyone on twitter knows what facebook is (and probably livejournal, too). and the only people I've seen who disparage twitter do it in livejournal. :)

[turbogrrl.livejournal.com]

I think people disparage it so much on lj because of all the twitter aggregations that kept publishing these one-line annoyances to the exclusion of real content.

Just like people on FB get annoyed at all of the silly quizzes that start popping up- other people's actions start having a negative impact on one's own personal experience. and yes, you could filter those people out, except presumably you wanted them on your friendslist for a reason, and in any case it results in a person being driven unwillingly to change how they interact with their own journal thanks to the actions of others. That is incontrovertibly cranky-making. ;-)