An Anniversary, Ms. Havisham Style

[cbertsch]

Well, this journal has made it to another year. This is my sixth anniversary here. But it's also the most bittersweet, since many of the friends I looked forward to reading have abandoned the site and others only post infrequently. As a measure of how things have changed, I almost went back and changed that "here" in the second sentence to "there," since most of the comments I get these days come indirectly, via the "notes" I import from Live Journal into Facebook. Sigh. It depresses me, because there are many things about LJ that I still dig, despite its many problems, from the ease with which concentric circles of friendship -- intimate to casual -- can be managed to the comment threading that still makes Facebook's implementation seem ridiculously lame. And I say all that despite a pretty strong hunch that my life would have gone a lot better if I'd never taken the plunge into personal blogging. Anyway, here's the tally, for what it's worth: 3267 journal entries, 13,849 comments received and 11,350 comments posted. I wonder if I'll make it to 4000?

Comments

[masoo.livejournal.com]

I still comment here! But you're right, FB does end up being the place where a lot of comments happen. I see it as expanding my readership, since far more people see me on Facebook than on my blog ... at least that's what I tell myself.

[cbertsch.livejournal.com]

I sometimes find myself starting to post comments to the blog entries I import from you into LJ or the ones that appear on Facebook, before I remind myself to go to the actual blog. I do think that Facebook can expand readership. But it tends to be a readership that already knows you pretty well, which is different than the pure internet experience.

[masoo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Google loves me, so I get complete "outsiders" jabbering away in my blog comments, people who wouldn't see me on FB.