Empty journals

[franceslievens]

simonf noted earlier that a big part of his flist had flocked to twitter. I have noticed a big echoing void where my friends used to be. So where did you all trample off to?

Comments

[iphi1.livejournal.com]

I'm here but still not posting very much or at all. I still enjoy lurking, and you can be sure that I read every entry from people on my flist.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Oh, but I'm quite used to your infrequent posts. :-)

When Simon made that entry, I noticed a lot of my friends had been very infrequent in posting. Not only the ones I'm used to only spotting every now and then.

How's your not-so-new job, by the way? And did your little boy have a great first birthday last week?

[comava.livejournal.com]

I've slacked off posting in the past year but not because of twitter. It seems fun but terribly exhibitionistic and also like a huge waste of time. I spend too much time on facebook as it is!

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

But you're at uni! See, I know what you're doing, so I guess your posts didn't go down that much.

Maybe that's the thing: everyone started posting less, so my flist doesn't get less crowded, just less full.

I've been tempted by twitter or something like it, but spend too much time on Facebook as well, and tweeting's not much fun when you have to go and search yourself a bunch of followers first.