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!
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Date: 2009-02-19 12:18 am (UTC)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!