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After reading an article about the demise of Livejoural, I feel like posting here even more. I appreciate that the creators of this place keep it running for us few diehards. I think I'll go poke the bookFace folks again.

I remember starting LJ back in the day.. early adopter.. in the sense that I remember it before it was commercial. Lost that poor account. And really all of it is water under the bridge these days.

Oddly enough, or maybe not so oddly as I make more time to get to know myself better, I find it interesting that I never managed to build new community with LJ. It was there mostly to keep up with existing community. I know lots of people that built up piles of friends from coast to coast using LJ. Was never what I did.

These days, I have friends coast to coast for other reasons.. and I'm hoping to get more of them participating in things other than Facebook. I appreciate that Facebook is, for most folks, the low hanging fruit. The easy way to link, and Facebook makes it that way. They are very good at getting people attached to their services.

I remember early on in the battle on Facebook the short-lived interest among my groups with Diaspora. LOVELY little idea, and still is, honestly. The idea of building independent pods and having them link. Solves a lot of issues and a lot of problems. But again.. adoption. Rough thing to do. Even for me. :-)

I'm considering popping back enough on the posting front of Facebook to crosspost stuff I do other places. Can't really convince folks to come with me. But... I dunno...

It's a tough nut.

Nevertheless, I'm here. And I'm posting. And I want to post. And I guess those that are here will see them. And those that aren't won't. Water wet. Sun hot.

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I try to keep up with both, the low hanging book of faces and here.
What I miss most here is the memory function, showing you posts from years past. Of course I *could* check my calendar each day for the past years, but I know that I won‘t.
Also, when I have need of feeling the tingle of connection that comes from someone liking a post, this place is way too slow.
As a socially deprived person I sometimes need a quick fix of human reaction.

Anyway, I am happy to read you here! And you have friends further out than coast to coast...

Hey... I didn't say WHICH coasts. :-)

The quick fix is a thing. I notice that the responses to my twitter and dreamwidth are limited. It's nice sometimes even when the most folks might do is hit the like button. At least it tells me that they are reading. Formats that require more interaction are more effort. On both ends, I suppose. :-)

Thank you for being around. I appreciate it! <3

I was, as usual, a late adapter, so didn't start using LJ until 12/2004. It really helped me get to know a new-ish to me group of folks in SoCal, then in the PacNW. To start with, it was a way to chat and connect with friends of friends and acquaintances. It served as a peek into the windows of lives of folks I sorta-kinda knew. Over time, I became friends IRL with many of these people, oft-times helped by LJ, which people tended to use for more in-depth and fewer commercial posts than FB. Heck, I had two major rships spark then deepen b'c of LJ.

I still use it (DW/cross-posted to LJ) to follow along with a few local friends who use it rather than FB. I see them IRL now and again (every month or two), but it helps to have some sense of what's up in their lives in between.

And quite frankly, it gives me a bit more of an insight into whoever does still post. I feel a bit closer to you, f'rinstance, because of your posts, supplemented by dancing and hanging out some at the BPO show last weekend.

To my mind, LJ/DW is supplemental to IRL, and often good for introductory matters. FB pretty much only works for minor-keeping-in-touch-with if I already know somebody IRL, at least a bit.