Live Journal
Well... I've let my paid account lapse for the first time in years. I guess I just couldn't bring myself to sink the money this time around. Activity has been dropping off but worse than that people have been leaving/baleeting me with parting blows of "You didn't comment enough/aren't interesting enough!" thinly veiled under the guise of... I don't even know. Civility? This friends list "pruning" and notifications is one thing I won't miss about LJ. I never had that sort of thing on other blogs because they don't seem to operate the same way. It's a culture thing.
I mean, I cannot even COUNT the number of times in my LJ career I have read a "It's not you, it's me, but REALLY IT'S YOU" mass deletion posts on LJ. I particularly enjoyed the time that someone axed me because they "only wanted to keep their very bestie best friends" but left my husband on their list. He doesn't know them from Adam (or Eve, as it was in this particular case.) He is just a high profile artist in some communities and they wanted the reflected glory. It's such a petty, transparent, and above all old little game and I'm just tired of it being able to ruin my day.
All that said, it's not that I'm going anywhere. I still read my LJ list faithfully though I remain quiet myself. There are so many people on here I'd hate to lose touch with and such fun events to keep an eye on. I am starting to try to acquaint myself more with alternate blogs and websites especially kept by those folks here to assure I never fall out of the loop entirely. I'm planning on starting a daily baby blog because I've realized that the little things such as "Bastian ate his first yogurt" are going to seem significant in 20 years. I'm not sure I'll be doing it here, though. The adds do seem particularly large and obnoxious on the posting page. Maybe I'll break down a bit later and renew my subscription but I think I'm going to explore other options first. I liked Blogger for the Bean Blog.
I mean, I cannot even COUNT the number of times in my LJ career I have read a "It's not you, it's me, but REALLY IT'S YOU" mass deletion posts on LJ. I particularly enjoyed the time that someone axed me because they "only wanted to keep their very bestie best friends" but left my husband on their list. He doesn't know them from Adam (or Eve, as it was in this particular case.) He is just a high profile artist in some communities and they wanted the reflected glory. It's such a petty, transparent, and above all old little game and I'm just tired of it being able to ruin my day.
All that said, it's not that I'm going anywhere. I still read my LJ list faithfully though I remain quiet myself. There are so many people on here I'd hate to lose touch with and such fun events to keep an eye on. I am starting to try to acquaint myself more with alternate blogs and websites especially kept by those folks here to assure I never fall out of the loop entirely. I'm planning on starting a daily baby blog because I've realized that the little things such as "Bastian ate his first yogurt" are going to seem significant in 20 years. I'm not sure I'll be doing it here, though. The adds do seem particularly large and obnoxious on the posting page. Maybe I'll break down a bit later and renew my subscription but I think I'm going to explore other options first. I liked Blogger for the Bean Blog.