Having lingered outside the LJ community longer than most, I agree with you on both counts. When folks shifted OT comments off the Yahoo group and into LJ, I suddenly lost my sense of the pulse of folks' lives. Joining LJ and getting the "friend" process down helped restore some of that and brought me to new folks, as well. However, there has been precipitous drop in the number of private communications and thus the more personal exchanges about interests only that person and I share or issues I wouldn't put on LJ. (Yes, I know: I don't put much on LJ to begin with. I warned you all that I suck at diaries [grin].)
And boy, it takes time to go through LJ! I've realized I've been spending too much time on it at work: I would log in in the morning expecting to have a quick glance at my friends' entries, and then there would be one I felt compelled to respond to immediately. Suddenly, it's an hour later... and I'm staying at work an hour later to make up for it, which on public transit here means getting home more than an hour later. Which means I don't write e-mail or other stuff in the evening. I'm working on changing that.
How do other folks manage this LJ/private communication split?
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Date: 2006-05-03 05:22 pm (UTC)And boy, it takes time to go through LJ! I've realized I've been spending too much time on it at work: I would log in in the morning expecting to have a quick glance at my friends' entries, and then there would be one I felt compelled to respond to immediately. Suddenly, it's an hour later... and I'm staying at work an hour later to make up for it, which on public transit here means getting home more than an hour later. Which means I don't write e-mail or other stuff in the evening. I'm working on changing that.
How do other folks manage this LJ/private communication split?