Friends Who Have Swiched To FaceBook

[plumtreeblossom]

I notice lately that a lot of people on my f'list have largely given up LJ and are instead doing most of their posting in FaceBook Notes. Can I just say, I miss you?

I do have a FaceBook account, but I'm not a daily user. I only log on when I get an e-mail about an event invitation, or someone friends me or writes on my wall. That happens about 3 times a week, and I'll usually check my inbox and poke around for a few minutes, but I don't use it as a daily feed and so I don't see everything that my friends post.

I'm not saying not to post notes on FaceBook, but if you do, and you haven't left LJ entirely, would you consider cross-posting some of them here? If I have you on my LJ f'list, its because I like your writing and enjoyed reading it. And don't think nobody on LJ misses you, because I do!

Comments

[ron_newman]

And some may be Twittering, which means they've given up any attempt to write coherent English sentences, let alone paragraphs. This makes me sad.

[moonshadow.livejournal.com]

My problem with Twitter is not a lack of sentence structure - most of my friends there still write full sentences. My problem with Twitter is that everyone on there wants their friends to hear their twitterings more than they want to hear their friends'. And that includes me.

[mizarchivist]

I'm in your boat on this. I realize I'm missing stuff, but I already feel like I'm dedicating a whole LOT of time to this and other non work online activities. :/

[moonshadow.livejournal.com]

You're the second person on my Flist who has mentioned a Facebook migration. I don't even have an account! It seems all animated and noisy and annoying. Could someone who really likes Facebook tell me what they like about it?

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

That's why I'm not more present there. I can only process that much incoming micro-data for a few minutes before my eyes start to bleed. With LJ and other blog communities, I can focus on the generally more blog-like posts ONE AT A TIME, which is how my brain likes to do things. I do think FaceBook has some useful functionality, but I just don't need the constant inflow of minute-by-minute tracking of my friends' every action.

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

I was very hesitant to join Facebook. saraheeyore pulled me in with the word games, some of which I really enjoy. I also really like reconnecting with people from my past and having the opportunity to see what's going on with acquaintances and family members who would otherwise be out of touch.

I don't, however, depend on it for connectivity with my day-to-day friends.

[kencf0618.livejournal.com]

Nor do I. It's useful for keeping in casual touch with Obama volunteers and for getting my butt kicked at Scrabble, basically.

[muffyjo]

Not to mention the whole terms of service thing that bkdelong wrote about.

I don't trust facebook. Not the least bit. To many apps, too many loopholes. I write the bare minimum there and keep an account there for some high school and college buddies mostly.

[deceptiverose.livejournal.com]

They changed that back today, the terms of service. Just so you know.

I love Facebook because it allows me to keep in touch with friends that I wouldn't otherwise. This is especially true of my high school and college friends and now my mom's cousins all are involved and I didn't talk to them before either. And my dad's best friend too.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

See, this is the problem. From what I can tell, it mostly serves as a way for one's high school classmates to find one and for me that is something to be avoided.

[scholargipsy.livejournal.com]

Amen, sister.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

I belong to classmates.com, and that is how I connect with old school friends

[scholargipsy.livejournal.com]

I despise FaceBook -- I have my misgivings about LiveJournal, but it at least provides a place for me to journal, publicly or privately, with a minimum of fuss. I also enjoy the fact that, while one can certainly post silly little snippets and links, it also allows for longer, more thoughtful entries of the kind I enjoy both reading and writing.

FaceBook, as near as I can tell, restricts your posts to soundbite length, and seems designed to foster triviality. It is annoying to me that so many people I know appear to be focusing their online energies on FB, because I have so little interest in it myself. (Note that I'm not saying, you're wrong to do that, or a bad person or anything; just that it's personally disappointing.)

Kat is on FaceBook, and really enjoys it as a way to keep in touch with mates back in Oz, and I can understand the appeal of that. And because my sister is also a FB convert, my wife now knows more about my sis and her family than I do. I could rectify that, of course, but it still saddens me a bit. I realize my FaceBook aversion is starting to reach crotchety-old-man proportions, and Kat teasingly points out the LJ and FB are really not all that different, but screw it. I'm not giving in!

[moechus.livejournal.com]

I recently joined FB and have decided that they serve entirely different purposes (at least for me). People use LJ through a handle and anything I post that might connect me to my real identity is locked. Furthermore, pretty much everyone on my LJ friends list I know through the poly community. People use their real names on FB. My friends list there includes people from the poly community, family members (including some very religious conservatives), other chess journalists, chess players, AP writers, other lawyers, high-school classmates and even a client. So what I put on FB is open for the world to see (although I am having second thoughts about that after the TOS fiasco) and I only put up what I'm willing to have the whole world see (nothing about poly there nor anything about work frustrations).

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Ditto to pretty much all that...

[billie0.livejournal.com]

I use facebook to mainly keep in touch with family from Scotland, to BC, to Newfoundland. It will never replace LJ.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

I just made a rather long reply to your post, which belongs better on my LJ, so I am copying it over there.
I pretty much agree with you on this one as you will see.
Also, I was not at all crazy about FaceBook.