Second poll: LJ/Facebook overlap

[thatcrazycajun]

[Poll #1389821][Poll #1389821]

Comments

[beki.livejournal.com]

For me, Facebook seems to be the next big "migration" of many of my friends. I started out with alt.callahans back in the day (Yes, I am ooooold) Then folk migrated to IRC, then to LJ, and now to Facebook. I have a ton of friends on twitter, but I can't tweet at work, so I don't see it as being very useful for me as a medium.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

alt.callahans... Yes, I first stumbled into (that incarnation of) the Place about 6mos after it opened. Rarely go back, but remember it fondly.

SilverBlack, the guy with 50/50 black-and-silver hair

[sffilk.livejournal.com]

My reason for being in LJ is well-known, so I won't repeat it here. I only post here every now and then. And if I do facebook, then I'll have to do friendster and myspace and this and that and then I won't have time for minor things like eating, sleeping, working, etc.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

LJ is an apa, I use it to write essays, to respond to other people's essays, and as an archive of continuing situations. I don't blog, per se, but I like how LJ allows for different styles of posting and gives me control over editing (and deleting) posts and who can see them.

FB is like being at a large convention and meeting old friends going down the escalator as you're going up. I like to reconnect to old friends. I love the ability to post unlimited pictures and have other people annotate them. I spend more time on FB not because it's more interesting, or even because it's a bigger part of my life, but because the flow of information is constantly changing and I have a lot of fish to throw at people.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

LJ is where I make posts of substance and really connect with my circle of friends. Facebook is where I send snippets, get hunted down by people I haven't seen since high school and play silly online games. I mostly use it for the latter.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

I use LJ as a blog.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Yaknow, I've got an account on *one* of those other things, I *think* it was Facebook but it might be Myspace, I don't honestly remember. I at least sorta remember what the account name was.

Where I'm headed next is Dreamwidth, which is LJ done the way we'd want it to be done: Open, and for the community and not for shareholders. Open beta starts in five days.

(The really cool thing is that DW is making it easy to interact with LJ, so when I post over there, it'll crosspost over here.)

[beki.livejournal.com]

I am on Dreamwidth too, but I figured that it didn't quite count since it is still in closed beta...

[anaisdjuna.livejournal.com]

I use El J to write out my thoughts as a diary and psych workbook and just babble about things that interest me. I use facebook to connect with friends. Old friends find me there which is nice also. Also, I use it in the social networking sense in that people invite me to parties there and I am registered with a group which does extras casting as I am looking for work. I don't write much there about myself though. Just the occasional status update if I'm feeling narcissistic.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Until Facebook removes from its board the crazy right-winger Peter Thiel, I won't so much as read a link to a FB page, much less provide any (other than this one and similar) -- far less actively participate in a venture that profits him. If it turns out that LJ has similar folks controlling it (I haven't heard such yet), I'll start a similar campaign here.

Besides, I write so little here that there's no good reason for me to establish an unused presence there.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

I'm not on FB, so about half those questions were 'n/a' for me.

I blog here: i.e., odd notes about my life, my thoughts, my family, my cat, and so on, that I think might (or not) be of interest to some of my friends. Sometimes some of them tell their friends, too.

I sometimes write more or less creatively here: that is, I put some thought and effort (often more than I really should) into saying something (I hope) cleverly or wittily. Or well. Or clearly.

I also spend far too much time reading and reacting to (and putting effort, see prev. para.) into my friendslist. Not this one... that is,
a. This friend's blog, thatcrazycajun, is rarely IMO a waste of my time.
b. And this particular post has brought me to look at some things about myself!

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

You're on FB? I'll have to friend you!

I use LJ for blogging about semi-personal things that I can express better than in a handwritten journal. I also use it to interact with communities and keep in touch with friends.

I use MySpace to stay in touch with my scattered family.

Facebook I use to interact with friends, mostly of the pageant variety. I've also used it to recruit contestants.

I also tweet when I want to update people on my current status. I also follow some politics there (I follow Rachel Maddow and Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO].). Twitter is for when I don't want to post anything detailed on LJ.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

I wrote: "I'm not on FB, so about half those questions were 'n/a' for me."

You replied: "You're on FB? I'll have to friend you!"

I think you meant to reply directly to thatcrazycajun's post, not to my comment.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

the main "community" i keep up with on lj is the community of my lj friends, most of whom are connected to each other too :) i'm on facebook mostly for the play-by-email games, but i also use it to find and be found by old friends, who i then keep in touch with off-facebook.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

also, i spend over 90% of my lj+facebook time on lj, but that's nowhere near 75% of my *online* time (the only thing that might hit 75% there is reddit)

[cellio]

I use LJ for diary-style stuff, thinky posts, soliciting feedback (a community aspect) -- all that stuff that falls under the general category of blogging, except it's not focused on one topic the way some blogs are.

I have, through LJ, run into the occasional person with some loose connection to my past. When that leads to interesting discussion, fine and dandy. But I see zero value in connecting with people just to connect with them, e.g. because we went to grade school together. If we currently have something in common, some shared interest, anything, then great. If not, it's just random people who impose (perhaps unintentionally) a burden on me to feign interest.

I greatly prefer LJ because it facilitates making connections of substance. I currently see little benefit and some cost to creating a Facebook account.