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

[kruku.livejournal.com]

Dunno what to tell you mate.

Before the internet people used to write letters but only people with excessive leisure time. For most working class people writing a letter was important but was reserved for the weekend as they had a little time and everyone in the family said 'say hello to grandma for me'.

The thing is communication that does not convey the essentials such as 'pick up some chops on the way home', 'your mother's ill', 'watch out for the sex-pest in accounts' is either art(letter writing can be that) or gossip and both are distractions from daily living. Most people who write reams of text with no intention attempting to achieve any artform are wasting their time (it's their time to waste). I know I've done it :)
So only people who have a lot of time to sit down and compose ideas however puerile are likely to use such things as LJ. Twitter and streaming social networks have taken the place of any pretensions of creativity for most people.

I'm only writing this because this has been in my head for some time and it's not a big deal getting it all out like this.

Gotta go now. Only have a half an hour left on this library computer and I've still got to post another three jobs I can apply for and to find a tutorial to fix my computer.

Don't worry about it. It's better to create than follow the herd anyway :)

[redcountess]

Yeah, I only get about 5-10 posts a day on my feed (including GRRM and a craft community) but I like being back and actually took out a paid membership again.