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

[bloodbeauty.livejournal.com]

I think i'm lucky, most of the people i care about never really left, i've had more of a problem with them going over to dreamwidth or their own wordpress blogs, but thten i pick them up via rss. i think my friends are too verbose to ever really deal with a character limit. most of them are on twitter, but come back here for blogging.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Some did, some didn't. My friends list on LJ is still quite actively thankfully and those on dreamwidth still crosspost. I do feel that the sheer choice of social networks as resulted in too many people being in too many different places, thus cheapening the whole experience.