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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 22:20I really should get back to updating this thing more often.
The sad thing is, when I started using LiveJournal back in 2003, EVERYONE was using it, like a drug. Facebook and MySpace were not in the mainstream as of yet, and that's how we all kept each other abreast of our lives. It helped me to keep track of long-distance friends (most of them, anyway), and it was a great way to get the day's thoughts out. It still is, in my opinion.
However, nearly everyone on my friends' list no longer uses LJ, since it would appear that the act of writing anything longer than 140 characters is now onerous and boring. I do miss the days where I could check my LJ daily and see a plethora of entries from a bunch of friends, before the annoying FarmVille messages and Mafia Wars crap came into play, where all that we dealt with were memes. Now, only a tiny handful (maybe ten or so, tops) post with any sort of regularity, and while my friends' list barely changed (the list is somewhere between 80-90 friends), sometimes my LJ Friends' page can sit still for a couple of days without a single update.
Facebook's not all bad--after all, we can now get brief updates from our friends in real-time, and it's a great social networking hub. However, I miss the details of their daily lives, no matter how inane. We've become so busy that the act of writing anything more than a few sentences is cumbersome.
Ehh, call me old-fashioned, I guess. I, too, am guilty of neglecting this thing--since I started having a regular, stable job, and more recently, since going back to school, this thing hasn't been as busy as it once was--I suspect that's much the case now with my friends who joined LJ around the same time. Many of them have graduated, moved on in life, have careers, may even now be married and have kids. Free time's at a premium, and I understand that.
However, I should strive to get back to posting on a near-daily basis again, even if only a few still read this LJ.
With that said, I'm heading to New Paltz this weekend, so I expect to write a weekend recap, and hopefully the narration that'll follow crackles and pops with incendiary wit.
After all, this LJ is called "A Bit of Wit."
The sad thing is, when I started using LiveJournal back in 2003, EVERYONE was using it, like a drug. Facebook and MySpace were not in the mainstream as of yet, and that's how we all kept each other abreast of our lives. It helped me to keep track of long-distance friends (most of them, anyway), and it was a great way to get the day's thoughts out. It still is, in my opinion.
However, nearly everyone on my friends' list no longer uses LJ, since it would appear that the act of writing anything longer than 140 characters is now onerous and boring. I do miss the days where I could check my LJ daily and see a plethora of entries from a bunch of friends, before the annoying FarmVille messages and Mafia Wars crap came into play, where all that we dealt with were memes. Now, only a tiny handful (maybe ten or so, tops) post with any sort of regularity, and while my friends' list barely changed (the list is somewhere between 80-90 friends), sometimes my LJ Friends' page can sit still for a couple of days without a single update.
Facebook's not all bad--after all, we can now get brief updates from our friends in real-time, and it's a great social networking hub. However, I miss the details of their daily lives, no matter how inane. We've become so busy that the act of writing anything more than a few sentences is cumbersome.
Ehh, call me old-fashioned, I guess. I, too, am guilty of neglecting this thing--since I started having a regular, stable job, and more recently, since going back to school, this thing hasn't been as busy as it once was--I suspect that's much the case now with my friends who joined LJ around the same time. Many of them have graduated, moved on in life, have careers, may even now be married and have kids. Free time's at a premium, and I understand that.
However, I should strive to get back to posting on a near-daily basis again, even if only a few still read this LJ.
With that said, I'm heading to New Paltz this weekend, so I expect to write a weekend recap, and hopefully the narration that'll follow crackles and pops with incendiary wit.
After all, this LJ is called "A Bit of Wit."
