Feeling lonely

[wiseheart]

I find it sad what a lonely place LJ has become. I've joined a decade and a half ago to keep in touch with my online friends most of whom lived on the other side of the pond, because this was a lively and interactive place and I had no other chance to contact them, snail mail being what it is, above all other things expensive.

Now people state that they no longer have the time and/or the patience for this place. Others have left because of the ownership and policy changes, which I actually understand. The problem is, though, that because of this old contact have been broken up and people just left their online friends behind, too; and it is those friends who are punished by this, not the site owners.

Yes, I know, the popular thing to say is that there is Dreamwidth and there are the social media, everyone should go there. But not everyone is suited for the hectic and superficial social media, and as for DW, well, I do import this journal to my account there once a week but so far nobody could bother to read it over there.

So, who does actually lose a lot by people leaving this place?

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I envy you more than you can possible imagine. The only steady ones on my friendslist are you and artemis10002000. A few other people drop in from time to time, but my online friends of old, the ones I've known for 15 and more years and even met personally - repeatedly - are gone. They've fallen out of our respective fandoms or no longer interested in fanfic in general, and apparently, it means they're no longer interested in keeping up what I thought was friendship, either. And that hurts very much.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling,I've lost several people I thought were friends and now it is summer my FB chat buddies are doing other things and I miss them. I get interested in people's lives on LJ and care about what happens to them. Hugs.