urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:evan Evan Martin Evan Martin 2011-03-13T20:22:36Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:evan:991055 2011-01-16T05:54:56Z 2011-03-13T20:22:36Z I'm done with LiveJournal. I had thought I should hold out for my 11-year LiveJournal anniversary, but why pretend that I still use this site?<br /><br />I saved a personal, private backup of everything I've posted -- 3,794 posts, not including this one -- and then deleted it all except <a href="http://evan.livejournal.com/2000/03/11/" target="_blank">the first post</a>.<br /><br />First, the why: the internet never forgets, but that's not how people work. "I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened." The person who posted entries here ten years ago is a different person than me, and I see no reason for that older person to stay around*.<br /><br />LiveJournal was awesome and I will be sincerely grateful for the rest of my life for what it gave me, the experiences and friends and the capability to introspect. I would do it all over again if I could -- hopefully hurting fewer people along the way this time. But that LiveJournal is now gone, has been gone for a while, buried beneath vgifts and ads and broken clicktracking JavaScript, left behind by all of us just plain growing up, and it's time for me to let it go.<br /><br />I will keep this account to keep up with the people who are still around on here. I wish you well and hope that we keep in touch; come to San Francisco sometime, join me for dinner, crash on my couch, but don't expect another post from me. I hope to put up future new stuff on <a href="http://neugierig.org/" target="_blank">my website</a>, so either check back there or subscribe to the feed.<br /><br /><br /><small>* I won't pretend the content I've posted isn't available through other places, but I can at least make it inconvenient/harder to find.</small> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:evan:482 2000-03-11T22:53:25Z 2000-03-11T22:53:25Z Testing my GTK client.