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temperance14Just testing to see about posting on Dreamwidth--and if I can cross post to Live Journal.
Don't believe I can do it the other way around.
Presume I should cross-post to Live Journal just to test if anyone sees it.
I'm not sure if anyone is still using their dreamwidth accounts.
Or their Live Journal accounts.
I'm sorry we lost so many to Facebook.
It cost us the conversations that we had at LiveJournal.
It cost us a lot of privacy.
It cost us a lot of deeper conversations.
It's faster. I'm frustrated by the fact that many people would rather use a FB post or a FB (blech) Messenger contact than text or email. So much more can be done with email.
What's really frustrating is that every other possible form of communication, even just electronic forms, are lost to FB.
I've spent so much time, over the years, reminding people how I can be contacted. More convenient ways to contact me. Ways that may be more convenient for them.
It's all down to FB.
And now we are cursing & blaming FB. The very friends (no, not you if you are reading this), who said, "Everyone is moving to FB" (the same folks who rolled their eyes whenever they heard someone say everyone does X)--those same people are now cussing out FB and the "sheep" that all followed the path there.
Forgetting who were the shepherds that insisted they wouldn't use any other conduit for communication.
Sorry. Feeling old tired and isolated tonight.
Even my therapist is through TalkSpace--and after over a year, I'm wondering why I'm doing this (oh yes, because I have no time, and little privacy space, to talk to a real person, nor the cash for it.)
You know what I miss? Diary writing. And I can blame that on Facebook. That started falling off with LiveJournal.
It's been great talking to y'all over the last...13 years? But sometimes you miss being honest about what has happened to you--and that can't happen with "real" conversation. I have to be honest with myself about that.
I think what I miss is being honest, and viperish with myself, and about others.
And I need to do that before I can talk with people, old or new, whether I keep friends or jettison the others--or even just try to talk to a therapist and see if she was trained to handle what I'm dealing with.
I've got to talk to me. Honestly.
Later if we're any of us are still here. (Still not sure what will happen with LiveJournal--must find out who currently owns it.)
Don't believe I can do it the other way around.
Presume I should cross-post to Live Journal just to test if anyone sees it.
I'm not sure if anyone is still using their dreamwidth accounts.
Or their Live Journal accounts.
I'm sorry we lost so many to Facebook.
It cost us the conversations that we had at LiveJournal.
It cost us a lot of privacy.
It cost us a lot of deeper conversations.
It's faster. I'm frustrated by the fact that many people would rather use a FB post or a FB (blech) Messenger contact than text or email. So much more can be done with email.
What's really frustrating is that every other possible form of communication, even just electronic forms, are lost to FB.
I've spent so much time, over the years, reminding people how I can be contacted. More convenient ways to contact me. Ways that may be more convenient for them.
It's all down to FB.
And now we are cursing & blaming FB. The very friends (no, not you if you are reading this), who said, "Everyone is moving to FB" (the same folks who rolled their eyes whenever they heard someone say everyone does X)--those same people are now cussing out FB and the "sheep" that all followed the path there.
Forgetting who were the shepherds that insisted they wouldn't use any other conduit for communication.
Sorry. Feeling old tired and isolated tonight.
Even my therapist is through TalkSpace--and after over a year, I'm wondering why I'm doing this (oh yes, because I have no time, and little privacy space, to talk to a real person, nor the cash for it.)
You know what I miss? Diary writing. And I can blame that on Facebook. That started falling off with LiveJournal.
It's been great talking to y'all over the last...13 years? But sometimes you miss being honest about what has happened to you--and that can't happen with "real" conversation. I have to be honest with myself about that.
I think what I miss is being honest, and viperish with myself, and about others.
And I need to do that before I can talk with people, old or new, whether I keep friends or jettison the others--or even just try to talk to a therapist and see if she was trained to handle what I'm dealing with.
I've got to talk to me. Honestly.
Later if we're any of us are still here. (Still not sure what will happen with LiveJournal--must find out who currently owns it.)
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Date: 2018-03-04 06:55 pm (UTC)And yes, there are many things I do like about FB, but I do wish it handed ended the LJ era.