Why not Livejournal?

[captain_slinky]

A good ninety percent of the complaints I hear about Facebook are things that could be easily remedied by switching to a Livejournal account. Check this out:



Addressed in order:

• 1) Livejournal Friends Page shows you all the posts from all your friends, unless the person posting it doesn't want you to see it.
  
  
• 2) Livejournal is in Chronological order.
  
  
• 3) No "Top Stories" nonsense, unless you want it (you find that on the Main Livejournal Page)
  
  
• 4) Only time you'll have to hear about an old post that somebody you know posted on is if you *want* to know bout it and have clicked the button to make that happen for that particular thread.
  
  
• 5) No "Like" button. Only way you'll know if a friend likes something is if they post about it.
  
  
• 6) You "Friend" on Livejournal - if they're Friended, you see it. If you unfriend them, you don't. Easy-peasy.

So why not Livejournal? khristle figured it out, and it's the only dead-end argument against Livejournal I can think of; people don't use Computers any more.

Back in the heyday of Livejournal, people were sitting down at a desktop computer, maybe even at a specific computer desk, with a full-size keyboard and a deliberate sense of being AT the computer, ON the Internet. As computing has gotten smaller and smaller, an original online presence has become more difficult to maintain while simply commenting on and/or acknowledging reposted content has become easier and easier.

That teeny-tiny keyboard on your phone is TERRIBLE for typing out long, thought-out, original stuff. But for a single-sentence status update, or for a quick touch on the "like" and/or "Share" button, you can create an online identity Frankensteined together from bits and pieces of stuff that people already thought of for you! Maybe even just ad a sentence or two to the repost of your own beliefs regarding the matter, and ta-daaaaah! You're interacting with people! All with just a few thumb-swipes and finger-pokes!

So despite all the complaining, why not Livejournal? Because Facebook is *easier*.

Comments

[aurora77]

OMG, you're so right. *facepalm*

[aurora77]

LJ weirdness. I posted a comment, it disappeared, I posted a new comment, and my old one was back.

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Maybe that's another reason. It's not the most stable of platforms.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Sure, but neither is Facebook :/

[lynna12000.livejournal.com]

At least with LJ, the audience seems to be much friendlier. Not to mention, literate. Probably due to Khristle's valid points about it being easier to type things out on a computer keyboard.