LJ nuttiness
Feb. 9th, 2004 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jawnbcSo how do you respond to LJ phreaks?
Not the phun, kewl, make-a-me-smile-but-really-quite-OK types . . . the scary, obsessed, cutting, mean-spirited, belligerent ones?
Is LJ for you about debate and forensics, keep things light and airy, making connections, filling voids, wasting time, using bandwith.
Why are you here? Why am <I>I</I> here?
Is anybody there, does anybody care, does anybody see what I see?
Not the phun, kewl, make-a-me-smile-but-really-quite-OK types . . . the scary, obsessed, cutting, mean-spirited, belligerent ones?
Is LJ for you about debate and forensics, keep things light and airy, making connections, filling voids, wasting time, using bandwith.
Why are you here? Why am <I>I</I> here?
Is anybody there, does anybody care, does anybody see what I see?
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Date: 2004-02-09 06:55 pm (UTC)While it's a nice place to read what's happening in others' lives, it's hardly journalistic in the sense that my wirebound journals are private and I have an ethical duty to protect my sources. LJ kind of flaunts that paradigm by opening your thoughts up to remarks and criticism. Hence the excitement of participating in a novel forum. But as I read more into it I find that, sometimes, and not most of the time, little flames erupt, anonymous posters make snide comments, and an otherwise congenial discourse becomes unruly.
Is LJ necessary? No. Is it fun, yes.
On the why-are-you-here topic: Friendships that began long ago continue, new nodes connected. Ugliness happens occasionally.