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

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

I've certainly no intention of leaving LJ. ^_^ I'm on Twitter, but it's much more an avenue for quick disposables and tiny chats - here, you can explore someone's reply to a posting, and ponder a response, explaining yourself in the process. Or, in a posting, mention specifically what appealed (or didn't) about, say, a film, not merely that you've seen it. (Or worse, let 4sq robotweet it for you..)

Still, my flist doesn't seem to've been hit too badly, especially taking into account the natural migration of people from one site to another. Frankly, it's sort of amusing to see the (very) occasional tweet berating LJ's relevance, when things are on the upswing - my flist's seen the recent addition of rav_bunneh and pawnytail, newcomers to LJ both, f'rex.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I use twitter for that purpose too - and it is certainly a different medium to LJ. Sadly though a lot of people solely use twitter or use it to the detriment of LJ and I find that a little bit sad.

My flist has taken a pounding really but the quantity has been redressed by quality so I guess I shouldn't complain.