Disposable Friendships

[lupestripe]

Did anyone else feel deserted when the diaspora to twitter happened? It was like everyone just left LJ en masse without telling me. I took it a little personally for a while as it seemed like my friendship was disposable. Typical over-sensitive reaction from me.

*and yes I still resent being forced on there just to keep in touch with people who had forsaken LJ, despite the fact the two media are quite different. I find twitter far more disposable and thus I feel less close to those on there than I did when they were on LJ. You get no appreciation of thought or feeling, just clumsy shortened comments which often portray the writer as either lacking in depth or arrogant. In fact, I think overall it's had a negative impact in friendships and my Fandom experience, aside from correspondence with a couple of people. Sorry kids but it's true.

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Comments

[moth-wingthane.livejournal.com]

Very much so. I hated it when I was told "You'll have to come to [wherever] to keep in touch." Oh, my friendship means that much does it?

Also, I find it dreadfully inconvenient to have to place messages in four different places to reach everyone I know, which ultimately is leading me to not bothering anymore - it's just not worth it now.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Your first sentence is pretty much how I feel. I don't mind using Twitter as its interface is comptable with the iPhone and so I can update it on the bus but it's the concept of needing to go there to keep in touch with people which irks me.