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

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I don't think it was a conscious thing, more an evolutionary one. Some people left and the rest followed. It was quite sad that some of us weren't dragged along until it was far too late though.

My social life has and hasn't suffered through twitter but then I have made it my mission to spend more time with close friends and less time going to furry events in general. I think a lot of my twitter friends can be considered former friends now as I hardly know them these days such is the superficial nature of the social network.

I think Facebook is awful, always have done. There is far too much going on there, it's far too fussy. I feel the same way about FA incidentally, a site I hardly ever use.