Speaking Of Living On The Internet ...

[bloodyrosemccoy]

kadharonon linked to this here post by yuki_onna on the LJ Fatigue that seems to be going around, and the possible reasons for it. I think in my case, it was simply that I’ve added too many feeds and whatnot to my friends’ page, so now I get so overwhelmed trying to keep up with everyone that I wind up keeping up with no one. The reasons she gives are also surprisingly painful—having people leave for another site is more of a wrench than I’d have ever thought. (No, seriously, it was a blow when Ursula Vernon started her own blog, even if every post does get mirrored here.)

I probably still won’t be very timely with my comments, but I’ve been trying to keep up, especially with my core group of friends on here, because quite a lot of you are FRIENDS, and not just in the online Hey-We-Both-Like-Cake-And-Have-Blogs-We-Are-Now-Friends sense. I’d rather not lose that, so unless I get hit by a truck or something, I assure you I’ll definitely be sticking around.

Comments

[cougarfang.livejournal.com]

I have a filter which is only People (with a capital P, people I'm invested in and want to know about their lives regularly versus random peoples that I thought their journal had some cool stuff going on but I only want to check occasionally) and no big comms ever, and that's pretty much my default first tab on Firefox. XD;; I feel like even if I make friends IRL and then discover they have LJs, the ones that I LJ with become my Really Close Friends, because this is my main way of keeping in touch with people (something that I utterly fail at, generally) and knowing people beyond the superficial.

*hikikomori*

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the kind of filter I'm working on.

LJ offers a rather nice way to socialize and keep in touch en masse, and the comments can pull you aside for individual stuff. I kind of wish all my interactions were that way.