Thursday, December 13, 2007
I miss live-journal
You know? live journal had it all. Face book has now replaced it and it sucks, it's so fucking superficial. All you get is nice pretty pictures of people. Pictures of them at their best having fun. On Live journal you got the truth, every now and then you would get a picture of how happy and joyous a time was but most of the time it was just entries on how empty you felt, or how shitty something was. Then people would comment and actually commiserate, share their own experience, everyone could be depressed together. Face book is just a bunch of superficial wall post like "i haven't seen you in two years, lets get coffee soon :)!", It's the popular kids all trying to one-up each other with their awesome photos or killer party invites meanwhile giving them a distraction to cheer them selves up when their school work starts getting to them... Face book blows.
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I've seen it (and lived it) from both sides.
LiveJournal was (and is, since I'm old) a different animal.
Facebook doesn't have the focused depth that LJ has, most likely because it doesn't emphasize it. Sure, it has notes, and you can write the same stuff, and people can still comment, but now everyone is notified when you write, and that changes the dynamic as opposed to when you had people who were on your friends page, which somehow became a more intimate thing. Maybe it's because the standard for friendship is lower on Facebook. But when the audience grows, there's kind of this natural tendency to editorialize what you're putting out there. And Facebook naturally grows that audience, so anything you write needs to be cookie-cutter and easily digestible.
Facebook isn't LJ. It never will be. But it serves a purpose that maybe is more understood after the diaspora.
Word.
LiveJournal and facebook were designed to serve different purposes. facebook for networking (whether or not it does the job efficiently is a different story) and LiveJournal was just that: a journal. I stopped liking lj as much as I got older because I got sick of hearing people's shit. People write in a journal mostly when something is wrong and I don't want to hear it, ya know? If you want to have a journal so bad, microsoft word would probably do the trick. And then nobody has to hear about it. People always tried to just allude to what they were talking about in their ljs so they didn't step on anyone's toes, so if you don't want people knowing about it, don't write about it! or at least don't make it public.
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