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[theatokos]

I just unfriended a load of people I either know are no longer using LJ or haven't posted in a long long time. This place is becoming a ghost town, people. But I stick around because I like the set up, the virtual anonymity, and am very attached to many of you. There are several people who have dropped off here that I miss quite a bit. Alas.

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[snowcalla.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean.

Back in ...Oh...1998-ish I found a vBB devoted to an author I liked. Started interacting with the people on it. Made friends with some of them. Met them in RL. That site went kaboom and most of us went to LJ. Met them almost every year in RL. Interacted with them for years on LJ. LJ is great because you can "talk" more in depth and really get to know people. It's like being pen pals.

And now, one by one, they are all leaving LJ. And I'm losing contact with them because it is harder to stay friends on micro-blogs like facebook and twitter. How do you keep a friendship going in 140 characters? And I'm just not that awesome at doing the whole RSS thing and interacting that way. LJ was so nice in that it tied your journals together.

So we stayed friends for 12 years across great distances and through all kinds of life changes. We survived the blow up of not just one, but 2 vBBs and then survived the migration to LJ (back when it was invite only). But we aren't going to survive this, I think. And that makes me very, very sad.

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

I like the tied together format of LJ too. I don't want to do a Blog: too formal, too public. I also don't want to have to click around to 60 different blogs. And twitter sooooo doesn't interest me. Sigh. Facebook seems to have absorbed the fall out, but it's not the same. I would never post on FB 90% of what I write here.