LiveJournal

I joined Livejournal to read a friend’s entries while he worked in Japan. I’ve been on it for over five years. Its format works with people who know HTML or just need hosting. I’m trying to use less paper this year so maybe it will help me avoid having to buy a new diary for 2009. My cousin and another friend are on it but I usually avoid the social aspect of it.

yes, this is where I talk shit about you. deal with it.

I started blogging in 2002 thanks to LiveJournal. I liked its simplicity of use. I didn’t have to program my blog, all I had to do was select what format and look. I didn’t have to find a company to host my blog, LiveJournal did that for me. All I needed were the words, and I did not lack those.
I liked the social aspect of LiveJournal. I soon made many new friends thanks to the site, and many of those friends I met in person. Some became very good friends, and for that I’ll always be grateful. I also kept in touch with long-​term friends via my journal. Some joined the site, while others just read my blog. Once I was startled when an old friend didn’t know something about me because I had blogged it.
My blog was and still is personal in nature. I value how LiveJournal lets me set security levels on my posts and choose who can read what, unlike other sites including Blogger. I used to be very public in my online sharing. Now my journal is mostly friends only. This means the traffic has slowed to my site, and the commenting mostly comes from my friends. Not surprisingly, I blog less without the feedback and attention. Now I only write when I truly want to share what I say.
Part of LiveJournal’s early strength was the way it created a portal for user interaction. It may have missed a greater chance to expand when it didn’t keep experimenting with new ways to encourage interaction, while sites like Facebook did. LiveJournal experienced controversy over its mishandling of user content like Harry Potter slash, which caused those writers to flee to newer blogging sites. Other exoduses occurred during the frequent owner changes and the inclusion of ads on free accounts.
Still I return to LiveJournal. It’s familiar. It feels fairly safe. I have a smaller amount of friends on the site, but that means there are less journals for me to keep up with. I can catch up with my other friends in more traditional ways, and that’s the way it should be sometimes.

Being a former MySpace blogger, I found LiveJournal to be a better format for journaling. My teenage niece introduced me to LJ a year ago, but I didn’t succumb to the pressure of joining until a few months ago. I really like that LJ is a place JUST for journaling, unlike MySpace where it’s connected to «friends,» comment pages, video’s, music, and other pages associated with MS. Another great feature on LJ is the «Writer’s Block» feature. If you’re a person who really enjoys writing for reflection and personal enjoyment, yet you’re not a professional journalist, the Writer’s Block often has interesting topics to help stimulate your creative mind. Ok, it’s still pretty much a site for young kids, but with some ingenuity, you can personalize your LJ to fit your style and age. The one negative that LJ could improve on is how people can add you as a friend, without your approval, and that’s a little creepy to me. Not much of a Unilocal review, huh? Well, I’m still finding my way with words… thanks to LJ.

Oh my poor LJ. 111 weeks ago was my last entry after a whopping 175 entries. My little portal to the blogging world.
I first blogged on
… I think I had been a member for something like 5 years before my account went permanently inactive (which was probably at least 7 years ago). LJ’d from 2003 – 2006.
Though, I don’t think I’ll ever go back to LJ. One day I’ll get all the material and archive it somewhere. Guess I’m getting too old.

I have had a livejournal account since January of 2003. Since then I have posted 673 times.
LJ has served me well. It has been useful in documenting my feelings, my political stances or simply what I’ve done throughout the week.
I feel that the interface is easy to use and love the fact that it’s free.
If you are ever bored, my LJ is at:

+5 stars because I met my boyfriend on Livejournal!
–5 stars because we broke up a few weeks ago…
+5 STARS FOR GIVING ME A PLACE TO WRITE ABOUT HOW SAD I AM!

2001-​04-​22 20:29:57
Today is my seven-​year LiveJournal anniversary. Together, we have gone through 3 boyfriends, 3 heartbreaks, 4 schools, 3 moves, and all that life dragged along the way. Through Livejournal, I’ve met several friends who have become wonderful real-​life friends, and for that I’m grateful.
I’ve blogged at Vox, Blogger and Xanga, but I always come back to LiveJournal because it’s like the shoe with the perfect fit. (Plus, LiveJournal has communities (like forums), which is one thing Vox, Blogger and Xanga won’t ever be able to replicate.)
Happy 7-​year anniversary, LJ! Here’s to 7 more. :)

Sold to SUP.
Bye bye and there goes my account ;o)
Slowly but surely, old age is starting to creep up on me as I slowly delete my scattered blogs…

I don’t update as much as I used to. Been a member since 2002. Oops, did I say that outloud. Heh. It’s a workable client though and I like that I can literally pick and choose who reads what, unlike Blogger.

Livejournal, once upon a time, used to be a worthwhile blogging site. The software is still excellent, but since its acquisition by Six Apart, the management has gotten worse and worse. Accounts are arbitrarily suspended for totally specious reasons, there’s no transparency whatsoever in the process by which this happens, and they sell $ 150 «permanent» accounts which are actually «until we decide to blow you off» accounts.
Communications with their customers are appallingly bad, and the site is shrinking at the rate of about 2% a month. Seems like sensible users are fleeing.

I used to be 100% addicted to LiveJournal. Then I found Myspace. Bye bye LiveJournal. I still have a LiveJournal, but I don’t go there as often as I used to.
I like how it has all the groups that you can belong to depending on your interests. It’s cool for networking. Kept in touch with some friends there. I still love LJ but now Myspace seems to be the place to be.
You know
or
or whatever the LJ competitors were, i don’t know why anyone would use those when LJ was so good. I am shocked they are so popular.
5 stars for LJ. An awesome site.

I love you and I hate you. Give me my life back, you asshole.

Livejournal Addict for 5+ years

Live Journal is the ORIGINAL my space. It is there that connections are made and thoughts are posted. Its nowhere near as commercial as my space though, and that’s a good thing. It allows for a better creative flow. There are people writing everything from simple journal entries to full on stories. I have several friends who put their fan fiction up there and many more who just rant to high hell about everything. Its a great way to keep in touch with people and keep everyone in the know, as well as connect with people who share your interests. I haven’t logged in in a long, long while but I plan on getting back in soon.

My motivation to Unilocal has been low this week. Haven’t really been anywhere new, and if i have, I’m not feeling creative or funny or witty enough to write a proper review. That is where LiveJournal comes in…
LJ for me is just a space to vent. I’m not a blogger per-​say, but its nice to write stuff down every once in a while, even if its not funny, useful or cool.
People read the stuff i write, but that is a risk i like to take, as i appreciate public opinion.
My LJ as a writing outlet has definitely been lacking now that I’ve started Unilocaling, but as of late I’ve been uninspired on both, so I’m going to Unilocal about LJ. Maybe then ill write a LJ about my Unilocaling about LJ.
I appreciate the outlet that livejournal provides, and the ability to choose who sees my ramblings. My roommate Pete has countless friends that when you ask where he met them, they are from LJ. Its amazing to me. He has attended their weddings, made cross-​country trips staying with them on his trek west, and we even had one that flew out from Washington D. C for a flag football game because he read Pete’s blog about it and decided it would be a good time. Never met the kid before that day, and he has since been here three times in a year.
I think the greatest story inspired by LJ, (again not my own, but Petes) is our friend E-​Ray. Pete had met her for the first time on one of his cross country journeys, and instantly knew she was a friend that was worth keeping IRL (for those of you who don’t know, that means In Real Life). E-​Ray was a victim of Hurricane Katrina and when her school and home were under water, Pete offered up our guest room, and the help to get her into USF so she could finish school. Having never left the south, and never gotten on a plane before, she flew to SF, became one of our nearest and dearest lil sugar’s and lived here till she finished school. She has since come back a few times to visit, and is contemplating moving to SF on a more full time, sans-​school basis… and we are waiting patiently for that day. All because of LJ, all of our lives were changed for the better because of her. You will know what I mean when you meet her.

for years i was an avid LJer… i’d write in it every day, even multiple posts each day…
then after about 5 years of this blogging dedication, it wound down…
and then i got vox, but i guess i’m just at a point where i don’t feel like logging my daily life anymore…
or maybe it was cus i started Unilocaling?

I spend more time lurking on LiveJournal than is healthy or sane. I have an extensive network of «friends» and some actual friends that I’ve acquired over the several years I’ve been blogging there.
One of the best (and worst) things about LJ is that they make blogging almost idiotproof. Therefore there are a lot of idiots using the service.
LiveJournal has much more of a community feel than other blog sites, due to it’s friendslist and threaded commenting features.
I’ve tried other blogging sites, but LJ will always be my internet home. Plus where else can you find a whole bunch of overly emo 15 year olds with virulently blinky user icons, terrible spelling, and a very serious belief that if Harry doesn’t end up married to Hermione at the end of the 7^th book THE WORLD WILL END!!!11! to make fun of?

LiveJournal’s where I do all my blogging. Seriously, now. I’ve tried Xanga — didn’t get into it. LJ’s easy to use, easy to customize. You can use rich text or write your own HTML into your posts — whatever you’re comfortable with!
Great communities to join, lots of members, easy to navigate. This is exactly what I’m looking for in a personal blogging site!
Love, Alliegee.

There’s a song by a band (whose name escapes me a the moment) that goes…“Oh my God, I love LiveJournal and my LiveJournal loves me…” Yes, someone actually wrote a song about this blogging site that started as a place to update friends and family about their travels. It’s much easier and prettier than writing long mass e-​mails to everyone. Forget blogger, xanga, blogspot and all those other journals, livejournal is where it’s at. I’ve met a ton of great friends via this blogging site. There’s a community for everything you can imagine… trust me I’ve scrolled through a few of them. Want to see «the darkside of ebay»? There’s a community for it. Do you have a DND obsession? There’s a community for that too. I’ve seen communities where people discuss their poop even. That’s where LJ and other blogging sites differ. You can customize your journal, filter out friends who like to cause drama, and even use flickr to upload pictures on the spot. If you’re not very good with HTML this is a good site to use. Novices and HTML experts use Livejournal. I prefer this blogging site over all of the others.