Mostly, I just balk at the idea of adding YET ANOTHER social media type site to my already overloaded internet brain.
This.
People keep prodding me to join Facebook and/or Twitter, and while I do have a little bit of curiosity about the whole thing, it's just...too much. I think I'm OK with DW because I'm viewing it as an adjunct to LJ, sort of like checking my Friends page, and then opening someone's post to read more. DW's basically just a backup plan for me right now.
I was very present with the Yahoo groups when I was doing my Planet of the Apes fic about 6-7 years ago, but it was very...messy. People didn't seem to have a handle on how to reply to a post, so I would have to wade through a lot of copied material and weird codes to find someone's 5-word comment. LJ is much, much cleaner (and has more pictures).
Really, I think the problem is that LJ just got way too big for its britches. They keep trying to add new stuff that people mostly hate, and because it's gigantic and very visible, it's an obvious target for people with political grudges. I'm guessing that what DW is now, LJ used to be, back in the day. So I definitely lean in that direction.
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This.
People keep prodding me to join Facebook and/or Twitter, and while I do have a little bit of curiosity about the whole thing, it's just...too much. I think I'm OK with DW because I'm viewing it as an adjunct to LJ, sort of like checking my Friends page, and then opening someone's post to read more. DW's basically just a backup plan for me right now.
I was very present with the Yahoo groups when I was doing my Planet of the Apes fic about 6-7 years ago, but it was very...messy. People didn't seem to have a handle on how to reply to a post, so I would have to wade through a lot of copied material and weird codes to find someone's 5-word comment. LJ is much, much cleaner (and has more pictures).
Really, I think the problem is that LJ just got way too big for its britches. They keep trying to add new stuff that people mostly hate, and because it's gigantic and very visible, it's an obvious target for people with political grudges. I'm guessing that what DW is now, LJ used to be, back in the day. So I definitely lean in that direction.