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Good communication tool or impersonal electronic artifice?
Ok, the subject isn't quite what I mean, but I think it gets the idea across. I've been thinking about LJ in general.
The other day I ran across a bunch of people on LJ that I didn't know were here - but I was quite happy to find. Most of them are folks I've not seen in years (keywords: Shadow Keep, Radnor Rolls, DUsers...), some of them are folks I never really saw that often to begin with (but were cool enough that I want to hear what they are up to).
My first reaction one of joy at having found these folks (only slightly lessened by realizing that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thomasm hadn't posted anything in a year, so I wasn't able to indulge myself with a quick "what has he been up to"). After that wore off, I started thinking about all the folks who I wish I had kept in touch with, and how easy it is for me to lose track of them.
While it might be interesting to talk to a few people from high school, or find out what they've been up to, most are best left behind. The folks I knew outside of school or during college are more who I had in mind. I'm very bad about keeping in touch with people. I don't like using the phone much - feels like I'm interrupting them. Email is great, but I'm a slow writer and get distracted easily - leaving old emails in my In box that I meant to respond to. When I do get out an email, I quickly run out of things to say ("So how are you doing? What have you been up to?").
When I first got on LJ , one of my favorite things about it was the feeling of being connected to people, or reconnecting with people, but I'm beginning to wonder if that's really true. Am I really more in touch with folks? Or am I just fooling myself about it, while providing one more place for me to waste time. It's not that I don't love reading all the journals on my friends list, but I find myself putting off writing or instead I'll start following links all over the place, thus wasting time I could be spending doing something else (even just catching up on email).
My thoughts on the whole thing aren't very clear - heck it's taken me four days to put together what little is here. So I'm going to stop here and maybe return to the subject later.
The other day I ran across a bunch of people on LJ that I didn't know were here - but I was quite happy to find. Most of them are folks I've not seen in years (keywords: Shadow Keep, Radnor Rolls, DUsers...), some of them are folks I never really saw that often to begin with (but were cool enough that I want to hear what they are up to).
My first reaction one of joy at having found these folks (only slightly lessened by realizing that
thomasm hadn't posted anything in a year, so I wasn't able to indulge myself with a quick "what has he been up to"). After that wore off, I started thinking about all the folks who I wish I had kept in touch with, and how easy it is for me to lose track of them. While it might be interesting to talk to a few people from high school, or find out what they've been up to, most are best left behind. The folks I knew outside of school or during college are more who I had in mind. I'm very bad about keeping in touch with people. I don't like using the phone much - feels like I'm interrupting them. Email is great, but I'm a slow writer and get distracted easily - leaving old emails in my In box that I meant to respond to. When I do get out an email, I quickly run out of things to say ("So how are you doing? What have you been up to?").
When I first got on LJ , one of my favorite things about it was the feeling of being connected to people, or reconnecting with people, but I'm beginning to wonder if that's really true. Am I really more in touch with folks? Or am I just fooling myself about it, while providing one more place for me to waste time. It's not that I don't love reading all the journals on my friends list, but I find myself putting off writing or instead I'll start following links all over the place, thus wasting time I could be spending doing something else (even just catching up on email).
My thoughts on the whole thing aren't very clear - heck it's taken me four days to put together what little is here. So I'm going to stop here and maybe return to the subject later.