Alone on The Internet

[captain_slinky]

I'm so tired of the monosyllabic grunting and nodding of FaceBook. Three-Hundred-And-Fifty "Friends" over there giving the illusion of connectivity when all we're actually doing is reposting memes and clicking "Like", maybe if you're in a particularly talkative mood you can reply with a "LOL" or "NICE!" before scrolling on to the next meme. Even original posts, stuff that people took the time to writ out and share with the world, is only a line or two at the most for fear that everybody will scroll right past it because it's too long.

I miss *writing*, and I miss READING what other people WRITE. I miss the back-and-forth dialogue. I miss jumping in to a thread and making new friends. I miss challenging friends to write! In short, I miss LIVEJOURNAL. I think everyone has forgotten how to communicate, in favor of just trying to make sure their voice is among the loudest in the room.

Amazing how alone these "Social Network" sites can make you feel, isn't it?

Comments

[penelopes-web.livejournal.com]

ahh yes...deception is a huge part of LJ. People making up story lines of their life, pretending to be someone they are not and hurting people in the process.
It's happened a few times in my "circle" where fan-fic writers have been "outed"
Not that it's not okay to use a pen name for writing, but the fact that they created characters who played them and in return "played" their fans...Fans that sent gifts and money to say a struggling young, male writer who just had twins - to find out later the writer was a 60 year old grandmother - that kind of deception.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Wow... I've never run in to that on LJ! That's CRAZY! Not sure I think it's really a regular thing about LJ, though... that's more of a "Internet In General" thing?