Anyone Still Out There?

[bjarvis]

It's been a long time since I've posted anything in LiveJournal. Essentially, I've been really busy and LJ began to lose its utility & interest in my life.

I had begun to focus my attention on Google+, made some updates to FaceBook esp for my freelance square dance calling, spending more time on Twitter and joined Instagram. Each has their own strengths & weaknesses... none of them give me everything I want in a social media experience, but all address a part.

But I've come back to LJ, by accident and by design. By accident, in that I was being notified by LJ that my account was being attacked/hijacked by someone in Poland so it was clearly time to update my passwords. By design in that this is the only social media outlet I use which is designed for long form writing. Indeed, all other formats enforce short snippets (esp Twitter).

To sum up, I miss writing & reading longer & more thoughtful pieces here. My life doesn't fit into 140 characters.

Anyone else still here?

Comments

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Yup. Still here. Happy new year.

[allanh.livejournal.com]

I'm still here, Brian, and I'm delighted to see you posting again.

[excessor.livejournal.com]

Indeed. A few of us remain.

[jss]

Yes.

[chrishansenhome.livejournal.com]

Yup, still here. Reading more than I'm posting, but hanging on. Sounds like you had a fairly good year. Happy New Year to you all!

[musicbearmn.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm still here. I need to get back on the writing as well.

[apparentparadox]

I'm still reading LJ.

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

I still read LJ regularly. I would need to do a lot of cleaning of my "friends" list before I ever felt comfortable posting here again.

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Still here too, though my output here has decreased while my output on my own blog has increased, but still post random stuff here though.

I'm beginning to rethink social media and may selectively sign up for a few, but definitely not the book of farce, but perhaps Twitter and a few others as I reassess things in terms of getting more noticed as I work to address the housing situation here in Seattle (high rents and high enough housing prices to be largely out of my reach) so I'm struggling there.

Having read your later posts (review of 2015 et-al), sounds like things mostly went well for this year, it's better than my year ended up being.

Still Here

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Still reading. I need to get back to writing posts.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

Still here.

[ljtourist.livejournal.com]

Still here too, but mostly lurking. I should fix that.