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[desh]

A Requiem For Livejournal

"In its heyday, almost everyone I knew – everyone who mattered, anyway! – was on Livejournal." "I’m not sure how things are on the Russian-language version of the site, but the English-language site has become a tacky ghost town." "But Livejournal, I miss you- and I’m using Livejournal as a synecdoche for those of my friends who drifted away from the site and thus from me."

Comments

[outcastspice.livejournal.com]

ok, so i only read the first section of that. but... most of my friends are still on LJ, it seems alive enough to me?

[msschein.livejournal.com]

I'm actually pleasantly surprised at how many of my friends are still on LJ, to share rants and stories and emotional support with. The communities I followed have mostly gone silent, but I wasn't particularly into the internet cultural phenomenon described in the article, anyway.

I'm highly amused that you've thus far gotten more responses to posting this article on Facebook than on LJ. Case in point?

[desh]

Yeah. For me, LJ used to be about keeping up with a critical mass of real-life friends, and occasionally meeting friends of theirs. I met a bunch of people through volunteering for LJ, some of whom have become good friends, but that was always in some sense secondary for me. And I never joined communities or looked to meet people just for the sake of common interests.

At this point, I feel like all that's left is a half-dozen people in one of my social circles, a few other scattered friends from real life, and a bunch of people I met through volunteering, two-thirds of whom I really don't interact with anymore. That's still something, but it's very different than even a few years ago.

[starvingnerd.livejournal.com]

Right there with ya.

[dorchadas]

Well, I post a lot less than I used to, but a lot of the posts I used to make were articles, short jokes, a single paragraph, or similar really short bits of content, all of which I put up on Facebook now instead because it's better-designed to handle that. I save Livejournal for the longer, more introspective posts, which Facebook CAN handle but not as well and without as much control.