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

[elfasi.livejournal.com]

It's interesting... I joined Twitter long before anyone started leaving livejournal. I just view it as a different kind of thing, certainly not an alternative. However I've noticed it scratches the same itch in people to talk about what they've been up to... And if that itch is scratched by Twitter, even if much less is ultimately said, it never builds up to an itch strong enough to go to livejournal, even though it should.

It's sorta similar in a way to how I find online roleplaying saps my drive to write. It scratches the same itch and uses my writing skills and by the end of it I don't want to write any more. I'm disappointed less people work on proper posts on livejournal any more, and I'm certainly not guilt free in that respect. However I can understand why it happens. People just no longer get that pressure buildup of life events they want to distill into an LJ post, because of Twitter.

I don't resent it though. Just an unfortunate fact. I do resent being forced onto Facebook though, which I dislike a lot, and am there out of obligation to family for the most part. I'm not furry there at all.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

This is pretty much how I feel too - you have summed up an angle on this perfectly. I resent Facebook particularly, and perhaps Twitter less so, although I was one of the first people on the latter too. I just feel I know people far less well on twitter than I did in the LJ days but perhaps that's a symptom of other things too such as a fewer number of furs daring to venture out of their locales these days.

In terms of writing, because I am an editor and journalist, I don't really have the desire to write creatively in my spare time. I doubt that will change to be honest.