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

[tinycorvid.livejournal.com]

I never really left, although I can understand why it came across that way - just really busy. I guess a quick status update on twitter or facebook takes a fraction of the time as it does to write a LJ entry.

Hope it hasn't contributed to making you feel bad :( I do get where you're coming from.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I think time and convenience are certainly reasons - perhaps the main reasons - why people have left LJ and moved to Twitter. It is a sad case of affairs though.

On the contrary, you and a couple of others I have actually gotten close to because of twitter.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

*closer