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

[lyr]

I guess I'm a talker, and I like platforms that are predicated on enabling rather than limiting that. I may not post super often, but I refuse to be succinct when I do. So no, I don't feel the concept of blogging is played out yet, and even when it is, I think there will still be plenty of holdouts like me. As a gamer, I've seen lots of people stick with the old games, even long after tech has supposedly got shinier and newer. I guess, just like blogging, people stay where they're comfortable.

[darkemeralds]

Yes! Comfort is really everything--at least it is to me. I like change and novelty, but I'd be the first to admit that I define those things within my own bounds of comfort--i.e., it's cool and wonderful unless I'm confused or put off by it, at which point it's just too much newness!

I'm pretty wordy too. There's nothing inherent in G+ that prevents wordiness, but it's not (so far) the venue where people are likely to go for long reads. I don't see fanfic turning up there anytime soon. Though I could be wrong.