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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[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. ;-)