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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]
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Date: 2012-12-29 10:43 pm (UTC)as for Livejournal... I visit a few tiems a day. I don't post.. I'm not much of a blogger and never have been... but I have a few people who I watch on Livejournal who post enertaining posts.
I've thought about RSSing, but I've never quite figured out HOW to do that thing in a satisfactory way... it's also kinda risky, personally, because I could spend... HOURS... wasting time with that sort of thing if I"m not careful. Which brings me to tumblr. I have a tumblr. I read a lot of people's posts. Tumblr is a REALY awesome medium.. because it gives anyone the ability to, with one click, favorite a post to look at again later and show appreciation, or reblog a post so that people who watch them can see and appreciate what you saw as well. .. REALLY cool. The problem is that it's so easy to end up watching a bunch of people who repost pictures of gifs or adorable cats and your "friend list" (dashboard) scrolls on forever and ever and you wish you could unwatch them but LOOK AT THAT KITTY SO CUTE and "well yeah I agree with women's rights so how can I be annoyed at those 15 posts about women's rights?
Honestly, I'd say give it a try. just don't give up live journal. I"ll never see your posts if you post exclusively on tumblr <3 Too many kittens!