This. If LiveJournal has one thing going for it, it's the long-form discussions. I don't think there's another platform out there that's so well-tailored to it. I'm on Twitter, but I hate when people try to discuss difficult, nuanced issues on there: it's about the worst place to do it. Facebook isn't much better, and it always seems like a busy, noisy place. Tumblr, being designed for images/photos, just can't hack it: it is SO HARD to keep a discussion going on there, and it can clog up your feed. I mean, bad stuff happens on LJ (some people are just determined to be jerks), but the design fosters discussion.
Who knows? Maybe LJ will have a revival as people realize that there's a social site out there that's designed for in-depth discussion.
Sometimes I think it would help if I just went and looked for new friends on LJ. There's still people here, just not everybody I remember.
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Date: 2014-06-15 10:19 pm (UTC)Who knows? Maybe LJ will have a revival as people realize that there's a social site out there that's designed for in-depth discussion.
Sometimes I think it would help if I just went and looked for new friends on LJ. There's still people here, just not everybody I remember.