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

[r-a-blackpaws.livejournal.com]

*nods* I do agree. I know I have been pestered by people to get a Facebook page just so they can keep up with events in my life (see one of my recent entries for my thoughts on THAT idea).

To me, LJ and IM's, along with the occasional FA note, are enough.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I have a Facebook page for precisely those reasons. My university friends moved there, started arranging events on there and I never got to find out about them. Story of my life really. I'd rather not have Facebook though, in all honesty. I don't think it's a good interface, it's too fussy and the personal data harvesting they do I am uncomfortable with.