Comments on: LiveJournal: the wounded superhero http://www.doedeereblogazine.com/articles/livejournal-the-wounded-superhero-of-social-networking Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:48:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: sunshy82 http://www.doedeereblogazine.com/articles/livejournal-the-wounded-superhero-of-social-networking/comment-page-2#comment-12781 sunshy82 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:49:38 +0000 http://www.doedeereblogazine.com/?p=3603#comment-12781 I still use LJ to chronicle my daily life and turmoils. I like the anonimity I can get with LJ that I can't otherwise get with Facebook. It's too complicated to limit viewing access on Facebook, LJ makes it nice and easy to make groups and to post to those groups only. Other than LJ I use Facebook regularly but I use that mostly to keep in touch with family and long lost school friends so in other words people I actually know and care to know about. I have no strangers on my facebook as I find Facebook provides too much personal information easily. I find Facebook useful as far as keeping up with friends lives that are far away but I still find it a pain in the ass with all the nimwit applications that are timesuck as far as I'm concerned. I also like LJ for the communities. It's nice to have a medium in which to share with others. Facebook has groups but you can't post content on them like you can in LJ communities. I still use LJ to chronicle my daily life and turmoils. I like the anonimity I can get with LJ that I can’t otherwise get with Facebook. It’s too complicated to limit viewing access on Facebook, LJ makes it nice and easy to make groups and to post to those groups only.

Other than LJ I use Facebook regularly but I use that mostly to keep in touch with family and long lost school friends so in other words people I actually know and care to know about. I have no strangers on my facebook as I find Facebook provides too much personal information easily. I find Facebook useful as far as keeping up with friends lives that are far away but I still find it a pain in the ass with all the nimwit applications that are timesuck as far as I’m concerned.

I also like LJ for the communities. It’s nice to have a medium in which to share with others. Facebook has groups but you can’t post content on them like you can in LJ communities.

]]> By: LovingLJ http://www.doedeereblogazine.com/articles/livejournal-the-wounded-superhero-of-social-networking/comment-page-2#comment-10729 LovingLJ Thu, 21 May 2009 08:23:50 +0000 http://www.doedeereblogazine.com/?p=3603#comment-10729 I ditched myspace because I found it superficial and not all the hype it was made out to be. I don't intend to join Facebook because quite frankly people from my past don't in any way interest me. I feel they should be left in past. I just joined Live Journal because to me it is more of a mature site with not so much silliness and hooking up. I may be a rarity but I just discovered LJ and love it very much! I ditched myspace because I found it superficial and not all the hype it was made out to be. I don’t intend to join Facebook because quite frankly people from my past don’t in any way interest me. I feel they should be left in past.

I just joined Live Journal because to me it is more of a mature site with not so much silliness and hooking up.

I may be a rarity but I just discovered LJ and love it very much!

]]> By: Bruce http://www.doedeereblogazine.com/articles/livejournal-the-wounded-superhero-of-social-networking/comment-page-2#comment-10670 Bruce Mon, 18 May 2009 05:56:16 +0000 http://www.doedeereblogazine.com/?p=3603#comment-10670 The comment above is correct - Open Diary was around and growing before LJ started, the OD posts were in 1998, and OD was over 100,000 users by 1999. There was a growing wave of users that started at OD (or Teen OD) and moved to LJ (and/or Xanga) and then to MySpace and then to Facebook. The comment above is correct – Open Diary was around and growing before LJ started, the OD posts were in 1998, and OD was over 100,000 users by 1999.

There was a growing wave of users that started at OD (or Teen OD) and moved to LJ (and/or Xanga) and then to MySpace and then to Facebook.

]]> By: chloe http://www.doedeereblogazine.com/articles/livejournal-the-wounded-superhero-of-social-networking/comment-page-2#comment-9651 chloe Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:53:32 +0000 http://www.doedeereblogazine.com/?p=3603#comment-9651 thats the thing about livejournal, its about substance. be that either photographs, or words. although lj has gotten me into a lifetime's worth of trouble over the yers due to my stupid habit of making entries public there is no website in my opinion that comes close. my space is all flash and trash, facebook is idiotic, twitter is the basest of online culture. i like livejournal better than blogs becase of the community feeling, and becuase you can keep in touch with lots of people simultaneously. it can be serious or fluffy, in a way that facebook and myspace can't provide. i love reading people's internal monologues, the hopes, dreams, justifications, fears, shame. its much more human than any of these other websites. thats the thing about livejournal, its about substance. be that either photographs, or words.

although lj has gotten me into a lifetime’s worth of trouble over the yers due to my stupid habit of making entries public there is no website in my opinion that comes close. my space is all flash and trash, facebook is idiotic, twitter is the basest of online culture. i like livejournal better than blogs becase of the community feeling, and becuase you can keep in touch with lots of people simultaneously. it can be serious or fluffy, in a way that facebook and myspace can’t provide.

i love reading people’s internal monologues, the hopes, dreams, justifications, fears, shame. its much more human than any of these other websites.

]]> By: misslikey http://www.doedeereblogazine.com/articles/livejournal-the-wounded-superhero-of-social-networking/comment-page-2#comment-9434 misslikey Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:39:54 +0000 http://www.doedeereblogazine.com/?p=3603#comment-9434 seems that I am only person that doesn't have LJ :(( seems that I am only person that doesn’t have LJ
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