![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inverarityNice fan composition by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zephyranthia here. Thanks, zephyranthia!
I have about 140 people who have friended me right now. I don't know most of you at all. This is fine — as I say in my user info, there is no need to ask permission to friend or defriend me, and I have yet to ever post anything f-locked. I usually check out the LJs of people who have friended me now and then, but I don't usually friend back unless I actually know you. (For some arbitrary Internet value of "know.")
But I do wonder who y'all are. I know some of the folks who have friended me have almost certainly abandoned LiveJournal long since. But I'd guess there are least a few dozen of you who are still reading my entries but have never commented here. You are not required to, of course. But if you would indulge my idle curiosity by answering this poll, I'd really appreciate it. (Yes, I did a similar poll some time back.)
The other questions are because now and then I think I might like to start blogging about more than writing and book reviews and fan stuff, but then I decide the time and mental energy it would take to mostly say stuff other people say better, and ban idiots, would aggravate me. One or two trolls can be enormously draining. Hence there is a trade-off between being quiet and unbothered or having a more active commentariat and periodic flamewars.
Lastly, LiveJournal seems to be in a death spiral. More and more people talk about abandoning it. I confess I am not entirely sure why, since it's still just as free and functional as every other blogging network out there, and I'm sorry but tumblr and twitter just confuse me. But who can fathom the ways of the Internet, which decides that Myspace shall become So Last Decade while Facebook shall prosper? So when I ponder the possibility of doing more "blogging," I also ponder the possibility of moving off of LiveJournal.
I probably won't do any of those things, because I'm lazy and it would be time I'm not spending on writing. But please answer my poll anyway!
[Poll #1887616]
zephyranthia here. Thanks, zephyranthia!Who are you people? Why are you here?
I have about 140 people who have friended me right now. I don't know most of you at all. This is fine — as I say in my user info, there is no need to ask permission to friend or defriend me, and I have yet to ever post anything f-locked. I usually check out the LJs of people who have friended me now and then, but I don't usually friend back unless I actually know you. (For some arbitrary Internet value of "know.")
But I do wonder who y'all are. I know some of the folks who have friended me have almost certainly abandoned LiveJournal long since. But I'd guess there are least a few dozen of you who are still reading my entries but have never commented here. You are not required to, of course. But if you would indulge my idle curiosity by answering this poll, I'd really appreciate it. (Yes, I did a similar poll some time back.)
The other questions are because now and then I think I might like to start blogging about more than writing and book reviews and fan stuff, but then I decide the time and mental energy it would take to mostly say stuff other people say better, and ban idiots, would aggravate me. One or two trolls can be enormously draining. Hence there is a trade-off between being quiet and unbothered or having a more active commentariat and periodic flamewars.
Lastly, LiveJournal seems to be in a death spiral. More and more people talk about abandoning it. I confess I am not entirely sure why, since it's still just as free and functional as every other blogging network out there, and I'm sorry but tumblr and twitter just confuse me. But who can fathom the ways of the Internet, which decides that Myspace shall become So Last Decade while Facebook shall prosper? So when I ponder the possibility of doing more "blogging," I also ponder the possibility of moving off of LiveJournal.
I probably won't do any of those things, because I'm lazy and it would be time I'm not spending on writing. But please answer my poll anyway!
[Poll #1887616]
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2012-12-29 10:04 am (UTC)Actually, I don't mind either way. I'm sure there'd be other interesting things you might blog about and I can always skip a post I'm not interested in. I'm here for the fics, though and while I like the reviews as well, I'd probably just shrug and go on reading, if you decided to stop doing them. It would be very much the same for me with other topics as well.
"How do you feel about LiveJournal?"
My friends have mostly disappeared, we had to move our RPG because half of the players suddenly couldn't log in anymore, my journal and many that I used to comment on suddenly lost the quote button which was one of my favourite functions, I have no idea what the next surprise change might be and I don't like changes.
"and I'm sorry but tumblr and twitter just confuse me"
I tried twitter, but left again. It's probably neat, if you want to post from your phone, but I don't and I'd judge it to be completely useless for your purposes as it's designed for very short posts. You couldn't do a thorough book review there.
Tumblr confuses me as well, though I admit I haven't done more than glance at it. I didn't like the look of it and didn't bother to try finding out more.
My place of retreat is Dreamwidth. Once you've created an account there you can simply import your posts, icons, etc. from LJ and it works and looks almost exactly like LJ used to as well so there isn't much to be confused about either. The only downside I've found so far is that most of my friends aren't there, but then they aren't here on tumblr or on twitter either.