ebb and flow

[flaviomatani]

Funny old livejournal -or at least my f-page, which of course I do not know whether representative of LJ in general or not.

In the last couple of weeks there had been a lot of posts, including a flurry of 'is anybody still here' ones from people who'd been away and, for various reasons, came back at least that one time. And then.... nothing much for the last couple of days; two posts yesterday apart from my own (and my alter ego, flavio_matani). And one was from grrm promoting his new cinema. Quiet quiet indeed. Not quite as dead as dreamwidth.org, mind. DW just came too late to the game, when people were worried about the Russian owners of LJ but were already moving tent to Facebook. Or maybe I just haven't found the right people over there?

One little thing about terminology of these things: I much prefer the Twitter use, 'following' rather than 'befriending', which invests it with connotations that make it harder when people (especially people you know) ignore you or don't 'befriend' you back. By 'you' I mean of course 'me..'.

Comments

[beluosus]

I know nothing of Twitter, so I can't comment on that. But LJ definitely beats FB for communication; there's just so much more room to get your thoughts down. Plus, the interface doesn't randomly hide things from you.

On FB it's far too easy to make an endless series of brief and meaningless posts. No one will evennotice the brevity or vacuity, since every other post there is pretty similar. On LJ, if you post a one liner, it really stands out, so most people tend to say more (unless the one-liner is actually worth its own entry).

LJ gives you the space to actually explore your ideas. You also have to at least come up with one word to reply -- none of this 'liking' bullshit.