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

[whitetail.livejournal.com]

I did feel a bit deserted, but I tried not to take it personally. Actually, I think most people moved for purely practical reasons. Although it's an overgeneralisation, those who left for Twitter seemed mostly to be the ones who weren't very good at writing to begin with. They are simply better suited to a 140 char format. I'm not. I enjoy writing narratives; telling stories and the like. Twitter and Facebook just aren't made for that.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I agree, I don't think it's a personal thing as it seems to have happened to many of us. It's always the same when the masses move one place and the rest of us are left behind. As you say, Twitter suits a lot of people but sadly I think its superficiality means that you get to know people a lot less than you do in a proper blog. I have far fewer friends now than I did in 2008, that's for sure.