Migrating more back towards LiveJournal

[rhu]

I used to blog a lot more about my life; recently I've found that I (and many of my friends) have migrated more towards Facebook and Twitter for that. But I don't like Facebook; I use it because that's where more of my casual acquaintances are. I would rather take the time to write things up in a little more length and to have my "diary" be somewhat more permanent. Pepys didn't tweet and Kafka didn't use Facebook.

I'll still use FB for posting random links, and FB will continue to grab the RSS feed from here, so you don't have to switch to following me on LJ if you're an FB friend. (Unless you want access to my friends-locked LJ posts, where all the juicy stuff lives.)

Comments

[abbasegal.livejournal.com]

I admit I only log on to Facebook every few days, and therefore I miss a lot that shows up there, so, to ironically use a Facebook cliche, "abbasegal likes this post." ;-)

[42itous.livejournal.com]

As far as I'm concerned, facebook is a reference "book" so I can look up, say, where my best friend from third grade lives now. I don't have a desk job, so there's absolutely no way I can keep up with reading the volume of [mostly trivial] posts there. As a result, I only ever go there to look someone up, or because facebook has emailed me to tell me that someone has tagged a photo of me or something.

[rymrytr.livejournal.com]

I agree with you about Facebook!!! When I retired last August, I was dragged, hog-tied and screaming, to FB, so that the "Eight" could keep tabs on me.

(It's a wonderful thing, to make friends over 20 years. (Some of them truly)are like family!)

Anyhow, after 7 months of FB and all it's extraneous Friends of Friends of Friends... All the pathetic, pretentious and petty stuff from people I just don't know, but happen to be (distant) relatives or somehow, otherwise acquainted.

I'm seriously thinking of terminating FB, as I have already done, to Twitter. The 3 of them, ate into my time when I could be doing other things, here on LJ.

[cellio]

That's my impression of FB from the outside; thanks for confirming. I greatly prefer thoughtful entries written in complete sentences, so I'm glad you aren't leaving us.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Always happy to "hear" from you!