judywatt

[Error: unknown template qotd] I don't remember who first lead me here, six or seven years ago - I think it may have been a total stranger on CafePress in a forum. 

Before LJ, I was blogging on my own domain for several years, but using LJ was a lot easier so I stopped making a new page myself every day with Dreamweaver and deleted all that old stuff from the 90s.  Anyway, yada yada, onward we go.

And I don't have a problem with other social media sites as some people seem to here - LJ is good for some things, and other systems are good for other things. 

Facebook is fun in some ways and I have old friends there who are pretty technically challenged and only recently even became able to use the web at all for anything resembling "social media."  So it's fun to see them there after trying to explain the internet to them for 15+ years and mostly getting blank looks in return.  At long last they have the beginnings of a clue. :)

Same with Twitter - I don't like the format it posts to LJ in so I don't read those posts from people here, but I have no problem at all with the concept of that kind of public IM system. 

I joined Twitter in 2006 but just started using it more lately and I am enjoying some of the people and sites I'm following there - and it takes no time at all to skim through the feed. 

Plus there are apps like Tweetdeck that display both FB and Twitter feeds with replies shown as well, and that makes it even faster to skim though both at the same time.

LJ takes a lot more time to even skim through my FL, and I end up only really reading a few people closely here anyway.

Long reply but there you have it. :)