xoagray ◾ Remembering the Livejournal days. (Reply)

I was having a chat with a friend online earlier, and we were remiscing on how at one point, it was a lot easier to keep up with our friends in the furry world. Basically everyone was on the same chats, Those differed a little bit from time to time, but for many years the hubs of furry activity were IRC, and Livejournal. If you wanted to find anyone, they were probably on one, or both of those things. There were always other places where small groups would form, but the vast majority of folks were in those places.

This made it so easy to find anyone. Today there are a dozen different places that everyone has scattered off to. Different websites, different chat programs, different social media. It's become a burden now to find people. Along with that, how we communicate has changed a lot. A lot more emphisis now is on microblogging, or instant messages. Things where it's just impossible to really lay out a full thought because either you're squeezed for space, or pressed for time. For some of us, like myself, this has made keeping up with thins in general a lot less fun.

Livejournal, was great because you could take your time, and you weren't constrained to a specific number of characters for a reply. If you didn't get to saying something for days, that was also just fine. It wasn't going to disappear into a flooded timeline like things do on modern social media. In a lot of ways, it was better. The interactions were better, the conversations were better, the only thing that could be considered a negative is that it wasn't instant like modern things are. But that wasn't really so bad.

I kinda' wish that we could have that again here. That we could find the people that were interested in that kind of long form, forum style interaction and collect them in one place. i know we'll never have Livejournal as it was ever again. And Dreamwidth while good, isn't what Liverjournal was at that time. but it would be really nice to have something that filled that spot that seems to be missing today again.

At least we still have Dreamwidth, and the folks I've come across so far seem to be really nice here. We can sitll enjoy that for now, and maybe hoepfully in the future, more people will decide to come back to this kind of environment. I can hope. That said, I hope that IRC will come back too. Even if I realize both of these things are extremely unlikely.