Dissolution

[darkemeralds]

Is anyone else trying to re-figure out how to have an online life? Is anyone else feeling that Google+ is cool but how many more social networks do I need? Does anyone else wonder if there's still a place for a journaling site like Dreamwidth and LiveJournal in their life?

I'm finding G+ very homey--more succinct than here, not quite as flighty as Twitter. Less conversational than here, but more interactive than Tumblr. It feels like a comfortable stream of connection.

Of course, it's new. Not many people are on it yet. Everyone's behaving like early guests at a nice party, so it's also much less contentious than here tends to be sometimes. (I have invites, by the way, if anyone wants one.)

Journaling/blogging has been a mostly wonderful experience for me for the past six years or so, but I feel it slipping away as a concept. I hate to let it go, but fighting the flow seems futile. Does anyone else feel that way?

Comments

[kis]

Wherever you go, you always take the weather? We should probably try fixing what's wrong with the sites we're on, rather than running off to places we imagine will be better but probably won't be.

[scribblemoose]

It's what I try to do. I still post on LJ as much as I ever did, I use Twitter for throw-away thoughts and silly discussions (my twitter is all public) and FB (grudgingly) for re-enactment stuff and some stubborn family members. G+ is too new and too early to tell.

But, yeah. LJ is my main online home and remains so until I can get a layout I like on DW goddammit

[kis]

I use DW's post-to-two-sites-at-once tool, so everything that goes there, goes to LJ too. Twitter is great for being silly, but I find it a bit frantic and ennervating at times (Sherlock spoilers, Sherlock filming, Sherlock-stalking - it can get too much but I feel I have to keep up). FB I'm avoiding like the plague, and G+ just confuses me.

[darkemeralds]

Very, very true.