Re: Set up LiveJournal community?

Michelle Bottorff <mbottorff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jonathan L Cunningham <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't think it will. LiveJournal just isn't anything like as good as
Usenet for discussing things. I see it's function as rather different.
Neither better nor worse, just different.

So, since nobody has yet answered Christopher Wright's question: what
is it for? (Unless Catja's comment was a (partial?) answer.)

I answered the "why have this particular livejournal community" rather
than "why have livejournal at all."

Did you? I see only one post from you in this thread, and it consists
only of a followup to Catja's suggestion about links to useful posts
in rasfc. Maybe your answer is in a thread I haven't read, or maybe
my newsserver (normally reliable) lost it.

Since you seem to want the second, I will try for that.

Not really - I don't share the motivation of those who do LJs, but
I don't have negative feelings about it.

I like livejournal. I like having some idea of who is reading my online
journal (I had a blog for nearly two years before I signed up for
livejournal, because, well, the software was free and it sounded like
fun.) I like reading the journals of other people, and livejournal is a
conveniant way to do so. It's a more people centric and less topic
centric enviroment than newsgroups.

If you think you would like to get to know certain people that you have
met here better,

I'm not sure if you mean what I mean by "get to know". Perhaps I'd
use one of the phrases "understand better" or "know more about". (Which,
to my mind, are subtly different things, and both a unsubtly different
from "get to know".)

What does "get to know" mean? To my mind, it implies a two-way process.
So, to "get to know" someone through their LJ, I would also have to
write a LJ (and they would have to read it). Or not?

I don't, for example, believe it's possible to "get to know" anyone
just by reading their LJ. (Similarly, it's doubly impossible to get
to know a TV personality.)

then reading their livejournals would probably help
accomplish that goal. If you don't want to, and you don't have any
burning desire to post a journal yourself, I see no reason why you
should get a livejournal account.

Not only do I not have a burning desire, the very thought is faintly
abhorrent to me :-). Hmmm. I wonder why? Something to think about ...

I don't have any objection to others writing and reading such things.

Jonathan
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