Poll snaffled from the excellent rustica

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1982861]

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[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

Though I mostly run around facebook these days. But since I still have friends here, I do show up a few times a week.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Hello! It's good to hear from you again.

[sally_maria]

I'm here and reading, but it's definitely a lot quieter than it used to be. :-(

It's such a shame, because there are so many things to like about journalling sites like LJ and Dreamwidth, but social networks are dependent on going where other people are. Between them, Facebook and Tumblr have pulled away most of the people I used to talk to here.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I haven't actually notice much of a drop-off from my flist.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

I am (ie still reading on LJ) and right this minute am listening to Bo Hansson's Lord of the Rings music.
Do you know it? Do you like it? :)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I sort-of know it, but it is far too long since I have listened to it; which I shall have to rectify.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

That is interesting, and shows that any decline in LJ-use is not universal.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It is a shame. Facebook has its uses, but I don't find it an LJ-substitute. And for some reason, I have never used Tumblr.

[sally_maria]

It's mostly the media/fanwork fandom side of LJ that got pulled into Tumblr.

It's great for sharing images and vids, but it's useless for conversation, imo, and there's nothing like LJ filter system for choosing who can see what you post or even to sort the posts you read by origin. :-(

To me it wouldn't be a great loss if it went away tomorrow, but until then it's a fairly harmless way of passing the time, and some people like the steam engine pictures I post.

[philosophymom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've found it kind of ghost-town-ish here lately. I like journaling under an alias, so I will never go all Facebook. But most others I know seem to have done.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Likewise ... :-(

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I'm here! As I said to rustica, LJ is by far my favorite social network.

I am way likely to post or comment here than anywhere else, and have a number of friends that I'm not in touch with in any other way whose thoughts and experiences I really value. I do Facebook and Twitter, but feel much less comfortable posting there, particularly on Facebook.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It's mine, too.

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

As ever, I don't comment much, but I read almost every day.

[apademek.livejournal.com]

Likewise, I don't post much, but I find Facebook a pain as it never seems to show me what I want.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It is good to know that you are around.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I feel the same. Even when I think it's giving me everything, there have been so many things in the past that it just hasn't shown me - or has shown me days / weeks later - that I just don't trust it.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

I agree it's quieter of late & I do miss it from how it was, but life's like that, it moves on. I am probably quieter too due to change in circumstances, and was never that interesting. I agree about Facebook & Tumblr. Not keen on either myself, and I don't entirely care if everyone else is. I find myself using the phone more again, and email, and doing that very old fashioned thing of waiting til I see people, TBH.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Not trusting FB, now where to begin with that one... (I don't trust any of them, but by degrees).

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

What you say makes sense.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

As you say.

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

...albeit a steady fortnight behind ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Of course ... ;-)