(No, seriously, it was a blow when Ursula Vernon started her own blog, even if every post does get mirrored here.
Man was it ever.
I'm cross-posting a lot from DW, but I've noticed that for anything that means something personally, its home is on LJ. I just don't "reach for DW first," you know? This is where my home base is, because those relationships don't just disappear.
I found myself trying to explain this (on Twitter, no less. To Posterous.) today. I have 8 years of life here. I was just a kid in college when I started this blog. Now I'm 30 and that's a lot of change to deal with -- and I've dealt with it all here. Cancer, my dad's death, the birth of my nephew (and later, my niece), my brother getting married -- all kinds of great and horrible things, all here. All part of me. And my flist has been there (growing and waning in turn, but always there and always with constants) through it all.
I had everything unlocked when I first began. Then came the time of filtering. The the friends only years with heavy filtering.... and now back to a time of openness with rare filtering. It's like the changes of a society -- I'm my own microcosm!
Or something.
Anyway, no matter how much I enjoy DW and how useful I find Posterous and how much fun I think Twitter can be for 2 second tweets from work, LJ is home. It's where I live. It's how my best friend and I kept in touch while she lived in Dallas and I lived in Memphis or how we met some of our now good friends. It cultivates friendships and helps us stay connected. Whatever corporate is doing, that's kind of worth more.
Sorry to totally threadjack, but it just makes me think.
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Man was it ever.
I'm cross-posting a lot from DW, but I've noticed that for anything that means something personally, its home is on LJ. I just don't "reach for DW first," you know? This is where my home base is, because those relationships don't just disappear.
I found myself trying to explain this (on Twitter, no less. To Posterous.) today. I have 8 years of life here. I was just a kid in college when I started this blog. Now I'm 30 and that's a lot of change to deal with -- and I've dealt with it all here. Cancer, my dad's death, the birth of my nephew (and later, my niece), my brother getting married -- all kinds of great and horrible things, all here. All part of me. And my flist has been there (growing and waning in turn, but always there and always with constants) through it all.
I had everything unlocked when I first began. Then came the time of filtering. The the friends only years with heavy filtering.... and now back to a time of openness with rare filtering. It's like the changes of a society -- I'm my own microcosm!
Or something.
Anyway, no matter how much I enjoy DW and how useful I find Posterous and how much fun I think Twitter can be for 2 second tweets from work, LJ is home. It's where I live. It's how my best friend and I kept in touch while she lived in Dallas and I lived in Memphis or how we met some of our now good friends. It cultivates friendships and helps us stay connected. Whatever corporate is doing, that's kind of worth more.
Sorry to totally threadjack, but it just makes me think.