Quote of the Morning

[hummingwolf]

From a TechCrunch piece entitled "Can Anything Stop The Facebook Juggernaut?":

As usual, William Gibson put it best: “Facebook feels like a mall. Twitter feels like the street.” (Which I suppose makes Zynga the mall’s arcade.) It’s one thing to shop there occasionally, but quite another to be a full-fledged mallrat—and according to the stats, that’s what we have collectively become. I want to believe that eventually we’ll wake up, and grow up, and realize that new and interesting things mostly happen elsewhere.

And so, I speculate hopefully: what if Facebook is the new LiveJournal?

You might not remember LiveJournal, a now-moribund social-blogging site...

Comments

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

lj is officially moribund. oh, sadness. well, it got too big for itself, so if a few million ljs fall unused, there are still good folks here!

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Agreed!

[nellorat.livejournal.com]

It is amusing to read that LJ is dead or just inhabited by the Russians. I guess I'd just as soon be a bit under the cultural radar, frankly. This is the best follow-up to print sf-fandom I have found.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I've never been involved in print fandom, but sometimes I still miss Usenet.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

A pre-automobile street where you have to step around all the horseshit.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

So I suppose I should consider myself fortunate I've never had a Twitter account?

[bunney.livejournal.com]

Well, the writer's friends aren't on LJ anymore, so OF COURSE LJ is obsolete.

Frankly, I'm glad people like that don't use it.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Heh. I know some lovely people who use Facebook. I just wish they were here instead.

[bunney.livejournal.com]

Oh, same here. I wish they would post here, because I'm never going to use Facebook even semi-regularly and I hate losing contact with them, but what do you do?