I'd be surprised if people weren't choosing LJ over message boards. I did message boards before I came here, now I avoid them when I can because they give me headaches. Lack of threaded comments, the signature issue, the fact that to find the myriad things you may be interested in, you have to search and register at so many different message boards to keep up with it all?
No, thanks.
I'm not big on compartmentalizing - it can reach a point where it's too much of a pain in the ass. You have to find and join fandom-specific boards and slash and het and gen boards and whatnot, and that's just the fannish side of things. I have to hunt down a whole NEW set of sites and boards for my other-than-fandom interests.
Whereas with LJ? I have an account, which automatically lets me keep up with all the fannish and non-fannish stuff I like through my f-list, lets me keep track of my friends AND provides a personal me-space that can be used for fandom and Real Life as I see fit. It's so freeing, because I could never talk very much about what was going on with my life on all the message boards I'd frequent. Their purpose revolved around a specific fandom, but with LJ, RL-talk and Me!posts mixed in with fannish posts are the norm.
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No, thanks.
I'm not big on compartmentalizing - it can reach a point where it's too much of a pain in the ass. You have to find and join fandom-specific boards and slash and het and gen boards and whatnot, and that's just the fannish side of things. I have to hunt down a whole NEW set of sites and boards for my other-than-fandom interests.
Whereas with LJ? I have an account, which automatically lets me keep up with all the fannish and non-fannish stuff I like through my f-list, lets me keep track of my friends AND provides a personal me-space that can be used for fandom and Real Life as I see fit. It's so freeing, because I could never talk very much about what was going on with my life on all the message boards I'd frequent. Their purpose revolved around a specific fandom, but with LJ, RL-talk and Me!posts mixed in with fannish posts are the norm.