(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

[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.