This Space For Rent

[digitaldiscipline]

I'm going back to my original stance - LJ sucks, it keeps us from communicating personally, one-to-one, like real people. So I'm taking a hiatus from it.

Comments

[theonebob.livejournal.com]

Sorry you feel that way. I find it to be just the opposite.

[gargoyl.livejournal.com]

Shut up. You just got here.

Here, have a shot. Against the pain.

*wink*

[sukipot.livejournal.com]

Hmm.. I don't find that to be true. I'm sorry you have.

Perhaps using it as an adjunct means of keeping up with folks is better for you. I'm a communication junkie; I like all means thereof, and the written ones better than the spoken ones.

Anyway. I enjoy what you have to write wherever you write it, and will always be pleased to read it when you do.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying it's without worth - clearly, it's useful as an informational clearinghouse ("No, I'm not dead/washed away/etc"), but it seems too prone for public conversational eddies that, for better or worse, I feel would be better handled via private correspondence, or on a specific forum (CorpGoth, for instance).

I guess the critical mass of my circle of friends has been reached here, so that if I -did- abstain from reading LJ altogether, I'd end up losing touch and being left out of their lives (I've been watching it happen *sigh*), but my own starter nuggets will be abruptly curtailed. I find myself with out a hell of a lot to say or report other than angst-ridden navel-gazing or weather updates.

Contrary to my "Blow Me" post, shouting at the void doesn't really do much for me. Perhaps it's ego speaking, but I like that little chime when new email arrives.

"Welcome! You've got friends." [/AOL Vox]

Not that y'all ain't friends, 'cuz ya are, but it's just not the same, at least for me. So I'll blather on your journals, per usual.

[claire.livejournal.com]

Well since I live in a whole other country and have never met you or phoned you, I would think that it's not entirely LJ's fault that you and I have never had any one-to-one conversation. But I can see your point.