I am wondering if it is partly generational, but also partly driven by how we regard textual interaction. We write about the daily things but we also tend to write quite long posts, often quite closely argued, on 'topics', or we include book reviews etc. Although it is quite clear that a lot of people don't use LJ in that way, it's equally clear that LJ provides a platform that is unusually conducive to this kind of blogging without HTML tears. (Certainly, it's why I'm here rather than anywhere else.)
I remember when Patrick Nielsen Hayden got a Facebook account, he characterised it as blogging for people who don't want to blog, while David Levine, within the last 24 hours, pointed out that Facebook prompts a broader, shallower kind of interaction with more people, all of which makes me realise why I don't derive a huge amount of satisfaction from it. It reminds people I'm around, but I feed through my public LJ posts, so they can see what I am really doing (which apparently frightens a number of people, which is probably good).
Other than that, I maintain a 'bookshelf' there, and a little garden application, though that is beginning to irritate me, and wonder why on earth people do all the other things (with the concomitant fear that I'm becoming stuffy, old-fashioned and unsociable, while being fairly certain that actually, life is short and I've other things to do). If it weren't for a couple of people on there, I probably really would bin it tomorrow.
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Date: 2009-01-12 04:55 pm (UTC)I remember when Patrick Nielsen Hayden got a Facebook account, he characterised it as blogging for people who don't want to blog, while David Levine, within the last 24 hours, pointed out that Facebook prompts a broader, shallower kind of interaction with more people, all of which makes me realise why I don't derive a huge amount of satisfaction from it. It reminds people I'm around, but I feed through my public LJ posts, so they can see what I am really doing (which apparently frightens a number of people, which is probably good).
Other than that, I maintain a 'bookshelf' there, and a little garden application, though that is beginning to irritate me, and wonder why on earth people do all the other things (with the concomitant fear that I'm becoming stuffy, old-fashioned and unsociable, while being fairly certain that actually, life is short and I've other things to do). If it weren't for a couple of people on there, I probably really would bin it tomorrow.