(Yes, I can even be a snob about social media.)

[deird1]

You know, I originally got a LJ account so that I could keep up with my uni friends after I left uni.

...two years later, everyone had Facebook accounts instead.

Maybe I'm just unusual, but I've never seen Facebook as much more than a poorly constructed version of LJ.


The main reason this just occurred to me (again)? My housemate. Specifically, the way she uses the internet.

As far as I can see, my housemate sees the best parts of the internet as:
1) IMing
2) Facebook
3) Blogging
4) Looking at LOLcats
5) Twitter

Whereas I see the best parts of the internet as:
1) Blogging
2) Wikipedia
3) Reading long and obscure articles about random subjects
4) Blogging some more
5) Forums

The housemate tends to get lots of short and excitable sentences, cram them into one of those tshirt guns, and then spray them all over the internet. Then reload, and start again.
Lots of short snippets. Filled with LOLcats.

Whereas I love long blog posts, really long discussions, and extremely long musing articles.


My housemate favours the tshirt gun version of the internet; if I could manage it, my internet would be hand-written with one of those quill pens, and then delivered by royal post.

Comments

[velvetwhip]

I lean far more towards your version of the internet.


Gabrielle

[bruttimabuoni]

I've recently admitted twitter just makes my head hurt. I just loathe the setup. I only use it for work, so it's not full of OMG LOL!!, and yet it's still so staccato I can't relax into it.

I don't require quill pens, but full sentences are my friends.

[a2zmom]

I completely agree. I just don't see the point of twitter or facebook. It just seems like interaction is so limited.

[fenchurch]

The housemate tends to get lots of short and excitable sentences, cram them into one of those tshirt guns, and then spray them all over the internet. Then reload, and start again.

ROFL! That is probably the most clever and yet startlingly accurate way I've ever seen it described.

[(Anonymous)]

My housemate favours the tshirt gun version of the internet; if I could manage it, my internet would be hand-written with one of those quill pens, and then delivered by royal post.

I adore you. I love both versions actually, but I could live without the tshirt gun version, I think. Where as it'd feel like losing the best part of my internet experience to lose the hand-written-quill-pens-delivered-by-royal-post aspect.

[angearia]

I think I just commented anonymously? Anyways, yes. Love you. I like both versions of the internet, actually, but the this my internet would be hand-written with one of those quill pens, and then delivered by royal post is the part I could never part with.

[snickfic]

I'm right there with you. The purpose of Twitter escapes me entirely and I hate the FB interface. Blogging for me, thanks. LJ really seems to have the best of both worlds - the long substantive content and also the community.

[watchingtheaeroplanes.blogspot.com]

Interesting. I don't really see Facebook and blogging as having any overlapping uses at all — Facebook is for keeping in touch with people; Livejournal, Dreamwidth, Blogspot and so on are for reading content. Yes, you live with my fiancée and we're good mates, but I still wouldn't be reading your blog if the content itself wasn't interesting.

I took a long time to get into Twitter, but I realised I was texting Jen random jokes or weirdnesses a few times a day, and thought it would be a neat supplementary feature for my long-form blog to tweet them on there. And there are a few people worth following.

My favourite parts of the internet?
1) Wikipedia and TV Tropes
2) Blogging
3) Creativity (fan-edits, fanfic, etc.)
4) Social keeping-up (facebook and IM)
5) News
If I could add a 6th something that's not on the open internet, it would be the access to just about every scholarly journal and book around thanks to the Monash Uni library.