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?

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[rainkatt]

See above. Knitters will argue about technique, color, needles, yarn, patterns, and copyright. Crocheters will whine that nobody loves them. Spinners argue about fiber, fiber prep, types of wheels, types of spindles, ratios, drafting, and grist. They will all argue about anything out in the world you can imagine.

There is whining about late shipping for swaps, store orders, club selections, and the postal services.

There are super-liberal folks bumping into super-right-wing folks. There are feminists bumping into the quiverfull. There are super-eco folks who yell at everyone for everything from killing silkworms to shearing sheep to using a certain wool wash.

It's a big, teeming mass of humanity, most of which happens to be involved in fiber crafting in some way. I love it.

[darkemeralds]

Now that you mention it, I had noticed some (what I considered to be) wank about bamboo yarn: very strong wording to express contempt for it, because it's no more natural than rayon, etc. etc., and NOBODY EVER IN THE WORLD SHOULD CONSIDER USING IT OMG.

That sort of thing. Heh. I think fandom has made me allergic enough to it that I just skipped over it and put it out of my mind.

But nothing you say here really surprises me, as I think about it. I'm just a marginal enough knitter that Ravelry isn't my primary online home.

[rainkatt]

NOBODY EVER IN THE WORLD SHOULD CONSIDER USING IT OMG.

Exactly. I mostly point and laugh quietly to myself. It pretty much doesn't matter what you have an opinion about. If you express it on Rav, someone else will need to explain why it's RONG.

On the other hand, I've found some wonderful folks there, just as on LJ and DW, who are thoughtful and supportive and who I'm proud to know.

Spinning was my wormhole into Rav. I just fell in and never got out again. ;-)

[kis]

And there was me thinking that knitting was a quiet, reclusive kind of activity!