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Hide me, Mother, the Russians are coming!
Jan. 6th, 2009 08:54 pmWell! If elljay does go tits-up, I'm not entirely sure what I'll use as a Social Life Substitute. Faceachebook...? Don't be a prune. God, that site's a pile of wank. I only ever get friended by three types of people on Faceachebook - 1, people I already know and would otherwise communicate with just as well via email, elljay, phone or text; 2, people from my distant past that I vaguely knew who generally came across as a bit thick back in the day and didn't really want anything to do with me who, once I have grudgingly accepted their friend request so as not to appear rude and have received badly spelled status updates and nothing more as a result, I've only been able to conclude are still a bit thick and don't want anything to do with me; 3, Fake accounts for fictional characters. Why yes, I'd love to give you access to various details about my personal life, person-I-don't-know! Rrrrrrreject.
And who wants to go round friending people from FB Comms when that then again gives the people you only have the one shared interest with access to all your life's details? Pah. Give me the Semi-anonymous shelter of LJ anyday. Also - where would I blither daily? You can't blither on Facefuck. I could always go to some other Blogging site, but there's three and a half years of my part-diary-part-wafflefest on here. It would be really sad to let it go.
That said, mind, I think the chances of LJ going under are actually pretty slim. There's a single online article doing the rounds and that's just about maybe-20-maybe-13 jobs being axed. God, the paper I worked for have been axing jobs constantly since the year dot and they're still shuffling along. I think this may well be a mountain fashioned out of a mashed-potato molehill. As much as I love LJ, its inhabitants are rather known for their capacity for panic and hyperbole.
What I really liked about that article that I can't be arsed to link to but you've all probably seen 100 times by now is that the Potter pr0n writers are getting all the blame for this. Yeah, you sick peedoes, you should write proper porn like what I do about just-about-legal cartoon teenagers taking it up the arse from an 8 foot high, millenia-old winged demon. Not that's acceptable family entertainment.
Ho well. Worse things happen at sea, I suppose. Worse things happen at sea.
And at least the mystery of why there are so many Russian LJs. Maybe this is all a part of Putin's devious plan for world domination. First he cuts off Bulgaria's gas supply during an arctic midwinter, which is fair enough, then he takes our LiveJournal. OH HUGH THE MANITEE!!!
And who wants to go round friending people from FB Comms when that then again gives the people you only have the one shared interest with access to all your life's details? Pah. Give me the Semi-anonymous shelter of LJ anyday. Also - where would I blither daily? You can't blither on Facefuck. I could always go to some other Blogging site, but there's three and a half years of my part-diary-part-wafflefest on here. It would be really sad to let it go.
That said, mind, I think the chances of LJ going under are actually pretty slim. There's a single online article doing the rounds and that's just about maybe-20-maybe-13 jobs being axed. God, the paper I worked for have been axing jobs constantly since the year dot and they're still shuffling along. I think this may well be a mountain fashioned out of a mashed-potato molehill. As much as I love LJ, its inhabitants are rather known for their capacity for panic and hyperbole.
What I really liked about that article that I can't be arsed to link to but you've all probably seen 100 times by now is that the Potter pr0n writers are getting all the blame for this. Yeah, you sick peedoes, you should write proper porn like what I do about just-about-legal cartoon teenagers taking it up the arse from an 8 foot high, millenia-old winged demon. Not that's acceptable family entertainment.
Ho well. Worse things happen at sea, I suppose. Worse things happen at sea.
And at least the mystery of why there are so many Russian LJs. Maybe this is all a part of Putin's devious plan for world domination. First he cuts off Bulgaria's gas supply during an arctic midwinter, which is fair enough, then he takes our LiveJournal. OH HUGH THE MANITEE!!!
