I guess...blame it on my being a relative newbie. I've only been with LJ for 4 years, and this is the first serious outage I've experienced. As for Facebook and Twitter, I avoid those mostly because they're so huge. (There's a stubborn streak in me that balks at being told "You have to do it! Everybody else is!" - I don't even have a cell phone, and see no real reason to get one.) I guess I just *like* small and low key. I'll agree that LJ offers a lot of shiny options, but I'd happily settle for something in between - a bit more options than DW has now, but keeping its kind of low-key feeling.

But yeah. Everybody's got their preferences. :)