LJ questions
Oct. 18th, 2005 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
For what do you use livejournal? Has that changed over the time that you've used it? If so, what are the reasons for change? Would you like to use it differently than how you do currently? If so, how?
(I'm thinking a lot about my answers to the above questions lately, and am very curious about the experiences of others.)
(I'm thinking a lot about my answers to the above questions lately, and am very curious about the experiences of others.)
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Date: 2005-10-18 06:43 pm (UTC)I'd like to see more of my LJ friends F2F, and rely less on it as a substitute for authentic connection.
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Date: 2005-10-19 01:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-18 06:44 pm (UTC)LJ-olution
Date: 2005-10-18 07:08 pm (UTC)Then it became more social and a way to keep up with log distance friends.
Then it moved to fit my mantra of "Livejournal...cheaper than therapy".
How would I like to use it differently? hm....use it less as therapy...but not because I don't want it as such but because one day I won't need it as such.
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Date: 2005-10-18 07:44 pm (UTC)I suppose you could read b) as "efficiently telling jokes to multiple people without repeating myself." :-)
Oh, and...
Date: 2005-10-18 07:45 pm (UTC)Re: Oh, and...
Date: 2005-10-18 07:47 pm (UTC)Re: Oh, and...
Date: 2005-10-18 07:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-18 07:58 pm (UTC)it didn't start out to be this way, but i'd say 98% of my friends list are people i did not know in real life. i like that i've hand-picked and discovered and been discovered by thoughtful, engaged, literate individuals all over the place whose written voices have become voices with which i'm attuned to and engaged with/by on a near-daily basis.
i feel it is a different kind of writing place. it is not the same as written journal; it is not the same when you know you write for others to read. but it can and has been personal, illuminating, startling, encouraging and a bunch of other things in opposition and analagous to these qualities.
at times i've felt the need for a new face, a new space and a much more limited readership. on those (that) occasion, i created a seperate journal. sepearte journals for seperate purposes. i felt funny about it at first, but later it become very apparant that it was the right thing for me.
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Date: 2005-10-18 08:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-18 11:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-18 11:45 pm (UTC)I then realized what a great tool it was for meeting new and interesting humans. ;) And, not just meeting them, but getting to know them in a different, more comfortable (for me) forum than in soul clothing.
I use it alot now to organize my thoughts, and as a way to document my life and any progress I am or am not making. I enjoy having various and sundry sounding boards It's very therapautic.
And, I enjoy keeping track of other humans with whom I would likely have otherwise lost touch.
I don't think I'd change anything.
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Date: 2005-10-19 07:06 am (UTC)