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Over the past few days I posted twice about not being able to get into IJ. Turns out if I'd thought about it I could have figured it out. LJ Stikeout = Blackout! I have been reading and posting all about it, but until Squeaky's post about the influx of new users, I didn't put it together. imatwit! Anyway, welcome all!
August 6th, 2007
cheerfulI think I like drama. I like it as long as it doesn't involve me, which is very selfish. I love storms. Thunder and otherwise, as long as I'm only an observer. Does this make me one of those people who enjoy disasters? I would have to say yes. And yet, most disasters involve real people losing real people. That makes me feel like I'm a bad person.
Over at LJ, there seems to be several kinds of posters. The social, I love whoever and what's he doing kind, the following a specific TV show or movie site. These are light postings about general trivial things.
Then there are the fannish people, which I don't get into at all.
Then there are the activists. The people who find a cause and drill it into the ground. In the sixties, they would have been out on the college campuses protesting. Twenty-First century protesters-meet the web!
I liked LJ, but have never really felt comfortable with the people who's posts I watch. I have never felt entirely welcomed. And yet there are really interesting cool people there. I guess I have always felt like I wasn't interesting enough.
When I first came to InsaneJournal there was literally nothing happening. No one seemed to be around. I described it as a Wild West Ghost Town. Lots of people seemed to have been here, but they were all gone now.
Then boom, LJ does the Strikethrough and suddenly the place comes alive. And it seems to me that we are all an eclectic bunch and that seems to make it easier to friend and comment. After all if everybody doesn't belong anywhere else then we can all belong here together.
Now there are more coming. Its like the old gold rush days. It runs out and then a new vein of gold is found!
LJ is going through some tough stuff. The 6A people bought something they didn't understand. They seem to have thought that they could combine their money-making schemes with the blogging site. Combine the two and put them together and make some money. Trouble is, that's not what people were using LJ for and that's not what they want to use it for. For that they can go to myspace or facebook or friendster. They saw and see LJ as something very different and they need to stop and really get to know their site. Explore it and come to know it and the people on it. Cuz its a crazy wild place when you actually go deep inside and spend some time. If they don't figure it out or they are just too afraid of the legal hassles then they are going to have to sell it! Otherwise they'll just destroy it.
And then there's IJ!
OK, I'm done!
Over at LJ, there seems to be several kinds of posters. The social, I love whoever and what's he doing kind, the following a specific TV show or movie site. These are light postings about general trivial things.
Then there are the fannish people, which I don't get into at all.
Then there are the activists. The people who find a cause and drill it into the ground. In the sixties, they would have been out on the college campuses protesting. Twenty-First century protesters-meet the web!
I liked LJ, but have never really felt comfortable with the people who's posts I watch. I have never felt entirely welcomed. And yet there are really interesting cool people there. I guess I have always felt like I wasn't interesting enough.
When I first came to InsaneJournal there was literally nothing happening. No one seemed to be around. I described it as a Wild West Ghost Town. Lots of people seemed to have been here, but they were all gone now.
Then boom, LJ does the Strikethrough and suddenly the place comes alive. And it seems to me that we are all an eclectic bunch and that seems to make it easier to friend and comment. After all if everybody doesn't belong anywhere else then we can all belong here together.
Now there are more coming. Its like the old gold rush days. It runs out and then a new vein of gold is found!
LJ is going through some tough stuff. The 6A people bought something they didn't understand. They seem to have thought that they could combine their money-making schemes with the blogging site. Combine the two and put them together and make some money. Trouble is, that's not what people were using LJ for and that's not what they want to use it for. For that they can go to myspace or facebook or friendster. They saw and see LJ as something very different and they need to stop and really get to know their site. Explore it and come to know it and the people on it. Cuz its a crazy wild place when you actually go deep inside and spend some time. If they don't figure it out or they are just too afraid of the legal hassles then they are going to have to sell it! Otherwise they'll just destroy it.
And then there's IJ!
OK, I'm done!
tired