Why Live Journal Still Rocks My World

[robinturner]

1. While I sometimes like the way Twitter forces me to be epigrammatic, LJ entries are a generally comfortable length: not too long, not too short. Related to this, I actually think about what I'm going to post, often for quite a while before I write it, which is not something that usually applies to, say, Facebook.
2. The friends system did what the Twitterati claim is so innovative about Twitter.
3. Unlike so much blogging software (and of course Twitter), comments actually appear in proper forum-like threads.
4. Unlike Facebook and MySpace, I don't feel the need to make any excuse for using LJ.
5. Unlike Wordpress and other "serious" blogging tools, I don't feel that LJ obliges me to blog about some definite subject.
6. Custom filters.
7. My LJ friends don't post five entries in as many minutes just consisting of links to videos.
8. I have a permanent and easily accessible archive of what I've been thinking for almost a decade.
9. Maybe it's my imagination, but it looks like a lot of the illiterates who plagued LJ about five years ago have moved on to Facebook and Twitter.
10. While I don't mind being one of the twenty billion people following Stephen Fry (who now tweets in the Andromeda Galaxy too), I rather like the low celebrity count on LJ, and the fact that when you do stumble upon someone a teensy bit famous, there's a much better chance that they'll actually read your comments.

Comments

heh ...

[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

... I was looking for the Reply link.

@bentrem

[jaipur.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yeah, I was enjoying Fry's tweets about his vacation in Mexico a while back (I'm not on Twitter but the hubby picked it up and I was reading over his shoulder for a while). It's a fun place to follow b-list celebrities.

[ironed_orchid]

Those are good reasons.