Watchin' The Tumbleweeds

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Ah, someone else reminiscing about the glory days of LiveJournal.

I do miss the community, and the golden age of Metaquotes. But I still post here. Good way to make sure nobody ever reads what I write, I guess.* I know everyone migrated, first to Dreamwidth (is that still a thing?) and then to Tumblr, but I'm really bad at changing venues. Hell, I still have a HOTMAIL account as my main email.** I'd say I'm already bitching about the Kids These Days, but to be fair I've been bitching about them since I was six years old. (And anyway, Tumblr's layout is bullshit. I never realized how well-set-up LJ's comment system was until I tried to figure out Tumblr's.)

Ah, well. Even if the site itself is never restored to its former glory, its legacy lasts. I've met a lot of good friends on here who I keep up with through other networks. And I even went to Chicago last year to attend the wedding of someone I met on here! So even if all we have are memories, my goodness, we have memories.

And I'll still keep posting here. It's hard to get me to change, You may have noticed.


*Just kidding! Those of you who are still around are great.

**I keep trying to get rid of it, but it's so much easier just to keep the damn thing.

Comments

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

I still squat here and watch the tumbleweeds rollin'. I always thought of LJ as kind of a system of interconnected personal forums, which was really nice. It's too bad that people have moved on.

Tumblr is good for curating a collection of pictures, but fuckall terrible for having a coherent conversation, really.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

LJ was that plus a journal. I do enjoy the conversations, but as you may have noticed I'm much slower at responding to them.