It's amusing to read about the Great Big Conversation That Is LJ. I came to LJ pretty late; to me, it's a better social site than MySpace or Facebook.
Although for me, nothing comes close to Twitter for the Great Mingling. There's something about 140 characters that opens people up. Which is an odd way of looking at it...
The freedom to be irrelevant is very nice. I locked myself out of that with my main blog, which I turned to a specific focus more or less because I could. And because it feeds my need for stats.
This resulted in a number of side blogs, covering their own areas (for instance, musings on Sherlock Holmes tends to disrupt everything else, if only because I proceed to write umpteen pages about him; or, an even better point, my fiction. Such as it is).
This isn't bad, since the purposes of those blogs are not personal stomping grounds as much as writing stuff for other people to reference and read. I'd almost call them magazines, were it not for the fact that it's just one blogger and her ego.
My personal LJ, on the other hand, is really my personal blog. I post things I wouldn't post on the others, even if the posts are public. I write things I don't expect other people to read. If they do, whatever. If they don't, whatever.
It is nice to be somewhere I don't have to worry about my stats because I simply can't install them. :)
I'll note that a focused blog needs a little irrelevancy. Or was that irreverence?
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Date: 2008-05-09 03:24 am (UTC)Although for me, nothing comes close to Twitter for the Great Mingling. There's something about 140 characters that opens people up. Which is an odd way of looking at it...
The freedom to be irrelevant is very nice. I locked myself out of that with my main blog, which I turned to a specific focus more or less because I could. And because it feeds my need for stats.
This resulted in a number of side blogs, covering their own areas (for instance, musings on Sherlock Holmes tends to disrupt everything else, if only because I proceed to write umpteen pages about him; or, an even better point, my fiction. Such as it is).
This isn't bad, since the purposes of those blogs are not personal stomping grounds as much as writing stuff for other people to reference and read. I'd almost call them magazines, were it not for the fact that it's just one blogger and her ego.
My personal LJ, on the other hand, is really my personal blog. I post things I wouldn't post on the others, even if the posts are public. I write things I don't expect other people to read. If they do, whatever. If they don't, whatever.
It is nice to be somewhere I don't have to worry about my stats because I simply can't install them. :)
I'll note that a focused blog needs a little irrelevancy. Or was that irreverence?