Having abandoned Livejournal in favour of Facebook, I find myself with no place to put my personal random musings.
Why not return to Livejournal then?
Well, the answer to this question lies in the nature of the blog. Livejournal is used by many for what it says in the title – an online journal. This is great for keeping in touch with friends and hearing what people are up to. More and more though, I found myself on Livejournal either, laboriously wading through stories of what people I barely know did over the weekend, or skipping large chunks of it to get to news of my friends. Increasingly I had to wade through posts of (sometimes) very personal information that I didn’t really want to know, by people I didn’t really know. As such I haven’t been on Livejournal for ages and have decided to enter the world of the blog.
As it is my nature to get drawn into these things and then get fed up when I feel they are a bind (this happens every time I start a paper diary) I make no promises about how often I will update this – who knows, it may be every day or it may be every year. This way I do not have to feel bad if I neglect to post for a while. This has worked well with my paper diary which I now have no rules about updating – I merely write it when I have something to say.
So, with that, I’ll be back – when I have something more to say…
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2 comments:
Know what you mean about LJ - I've surfed in there and found too much information. Just blog stuff that you don't mind anyone knowing.
Anyway, pleased to be the first person to comment. I do think you have to explain the jelynewt thing though.
Hooray a comment!
Yes only public musings belong on the net. On LJ you can lock posts to friends only, but even so, some people were very open on there, considering that people tend to friend one another the moment they meet.
The jellynewt thing is easily explained, and a lot more dull than it sounds. It was a nickname at school. My best friend at school came up with it and it sort of stuck, even now people still call me jelly or jellifer when I go back to Accrington. As I got older I decided to stick with it as it's suitably unusual - everyone knows it's me (in fact if you google jellynewt I'm fairly sure all references are to me, making me the googke-whackers friend, but I've never been called by Dave Gorman). Also, its better than my later nicknames - Osram head by my ex boyfriend, and Munchkin by my current one! :-)
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