Hi! I am sleepy. But my brain was percolating last night, thinking about things. In the wake of the breastfeeding icon protest (and I still don't understand what LiveJournal/SixApart were thinking there) and people up in arms about the potential My Space-ification of LJ, it seems possible that LJ has a shelf life of sorts, that the people I know here might disappear, not through natural drifting off, but because of LJ itself. So I'm curious.
Can you see yourself leaving LiveJournal within the next year? Within the next 5 years? Can you already tell that at some point you will be tired of the whole thing?
How sad would you be if LiveJournal disappeared?
Would you immediately go to one of the other comparable sites? Would
you search out everyone you know? Or would you take it as a natural
end? Would you keep in touch with people another way, like through
email? Everyone on your friends list? Some people? Just those people
you see on a regular basis?
If your friends list disappeared, would you recreate it as it is now?
Would you refriend everyone you have friended? Most people? Barely
anyone?
If you started again on another site, would you be the same person?
Divulge the same information? Would you pick the same user name so
that people could find you? Or a different one, so that you'd be
somewhat anonymous again?
(Note: this is not a meme, so please don't think you have to answer each and every one of these questions. It's just a starting point. Mostly, I just want to hear what you think about your LJ experience.)
Can you see yourself leaving LiveJournal within the next year? Within the next 5 years? Can you already tell that at some point you will be tired of the whole thing?
How sad would you be if LiveJournal disappeared?
Would you immediately go to one of the other comparable sites? Would
you search out everyone you know? Or would you take it as a natural
end? Would you keep in touch with people another way, like through
email? Everyone on your friends list? Some people? Just those people
you see on a regular basis?
If your friends list disappeared, would you recreate it as it is now?
Would you refriend everyone you have friended? Most people? Barely
anyone?
If you started again on another site, would you be the same person?
Divulge the same information? Would you pick the same user name so
that people could find you? Or a different one, so that you'd be
somewhat anonymous again?
(Note: this is not a meme, so please don't think you have to answer each and every one of these questions. It's just a starting point. Mostly, I just want to hear what you think about your LJ experience.)