SO LONG, SUCKJOURNAL
Okay, not gonna really update this anymore. I'll keep this account around to comment to friends who are still here, but otherwise moving full-over to DW. I'll post links eventually... maybe.
Read why LJ doesn't give a shit over here.
I first opened this all the way back in the year 2000. I was still in high school, as were most all of my friends. We spent our spare time programming video games with software that even at the time was vastly outdated. (That is, ZZT.) When some people started getting livejournals, I got one too. I think I beat the 'Early Adopter' cut-off by about a week or so.
But it all started to go to shit when the first owner sold it off in 2005. Before that, advertisements were something you never saw on here. 'Early Adopter' perks meanwhile became less and less and then faded completely when they started letting you get features similar to a paid account in exchange for displaying lots of ads. Then of course MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter showed up and revealed livejournal for the dinosaur it was. Livejournal tried to counter by linking all of these 'social networking' sites together, which only served to piss off the people who didn't like that even more. Six years or so later, this is the logical conclusion: outright scorn for the users who made up the core of livejournal years ago and even more 'marketing' toward luring people who already use the other social network sites to just add another one. (That and the Singapore-based and Russian users, which apparently are doing well here. I wouldn't know. It seems every time I see a journal all in Cyrillic it's full of nothing but spam.)
To be honest, I think livejournal may be trying to drive all of the 'old' users away. At least one of my friends said she had already receiving a notice saying it was going to delete her inactive account here. Either they desperately need server space and they think the best way to get it is by finally frightening everyone away or... I don't know what.
Anyway, after 2004, I admit I primarily used my livejournal for roleplaying purposes. Now that most all of them have immigrated to DreamWidth, there's no real reason to maintain this anymore except to maintain relationships with the few friends I have left who still primarily use this system. However, I encourage everyone to at least check out Dreamwidth. It requires activation keys to use, but it's got all of the old 'good' features livejournal had at one point.
See title.
Read why LJ doesn't give a shit over here.
I first opened this all the way back in the year 2000. I was still in high school, as were most all of my friends. We spent our spare time programming video games with software that even at the time was vastly outdated. (That is, ZZT.) When some people started getting livejournals, I got one too. I think I beat the 'Early Adopter' cut-off by about a week or so.
But it all started to go to shit when the first owner sold it off in 2005. Before that, advertisements were something you never saw on here. 'Early Adopter' perks meanwhile became less and less and then faded completely when they started letting you get features similar to a paid account in exchange for displaying lots of ads. Then of course MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter showed up and revealed livejournal for the dinosaur it was. Livejournal tried to counter by linking all of these 'social networking' sites together, which only served to piss off the people who didn't like that even more. Six years or so later, this is the logical conclusion: outright scorn for the users who made up the core of livejournal years ago and even more 'marketing' toward luring people who already use the other social network sites to just add another one. (That and the Singapore-based and Russian users, which apparently are doing well here. I wouldn't know. It seems every time I see a journal all in Cyrillic it's full of nothing but spam.)
To be honest, I think livejournal may be trying to drive all of the 'old' users away. At least one of my friends said she had already receiving a notice saying it was going to delete her inactive account here. Either they desperately need server space and they think the best way to get it is by finally frightening everyone away or... I don't know what.
Anyway, after 2004, I admit I primarily used my livejournal for roleplaying purposes. Now that most all of them have immigrated to DreamWidth, there's no real reason to maintain this anymore except to maintain relationships with the few friends I have left who still primarily use this system. However, I encourage everyone to at least check out Dreamwidth. It requires activation keys to use, but it's got all of the old 'good' features livejournal had at one point.
See title.