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

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear it!

I'm thinking of taking a few of my larger comms off my default view, and go read them manually, because yeah. I can go two pages and not see anything by specific people, and it's easy to skim by things. :/

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

I've never been good at foruming anyway (dig my abysmal Torn World track record after the initial conlang stuff was hammered out), so communities are secondary to individuals. But they do take over the friends page, so I filter them off.