Hey, all. Welcome to another of my super-rare locked posts!
How many LJ friends and users also keep up with me on Facebook and/or Twitter? Which is primary for you?
How often do you read, write and comment each here on LJ?
I am very curious by who might read my posts but never comment on them. It seems like the hundreds of "friends" I have are mostly lurkers.
I am trying to streamline my web presence and write about it the process. Your answers will be greatly appreciated.
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Word to a secret nerd.
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This is the more intimate space, to me.
I am really resistant to twitter.It has a spammy feel.After this spot, it’s FB.
Haha. I’m totally a lurker.
I follow you on Twitter, Facebook, LJ… In terms of what I check most, I go to Facebook first, then LJ, then Twitter. I think a lot more people are on Twitter or FB than LJ, though.
I think this is maybe the second or third time I’ve ever commented on your journal: However, I sort of figured you used your facebook/lj/tweetspace/etc. more for advertising your touring business than anything else, apart from photography and etc. I keep you around on my LJ’s because I try to keep track of folks’ touring schedules, in case our locales coincide. Mostly, I read everyone whom I keep track of on a close-to-daily basis, thru the friends page, I comment when I’m moved to (Seldom – usually, I read posts so late that people have either already made my point, or the subject is deeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.) But for some reason, I think of LJ as much more intimate than facebook – at the least, I will post things here that I wouldn’t say elsewhere. Updates about my health, poems, etc. find their way onto LJ and I save facebook for the “OMG I’M GOING TO DISNEYLAND AND I AM A STYROFOAM PEANUTLOLBBQ” type updates.
Or, conversely: Status updates which really say very little for facebook, actual content on LJ. Tada.
LJ’s my preferred form of internet communication. Facebook is second, and Twitter can fornicate itself with a rusty fork.
Read, write and comment on LJ every day.
I agree that there are more, but (like nerak_g stated above) LJ is more intimate. I am automatically less inclined to get advertise-y or promotional in this journal. I think it is okay to keep this up.
This also where I come to first to test things out, then I might attempt to send people here from FB or Twitter for more in depth responses.
I am really wanting to abandon either FB or Twitter, but I am not sure if FB is way too much, or Twitter just isn’t enough.
BTW, you’re one of my favorite lurkers.
I always know you’re out there, supportin’ away, in my true home of towns.
And I believe all of your comments have been made in the last 24-hours. I appreciate all of them. Finally! You did it!
This one’s good too.
You and Karen G are two very huge reasons I use LJ for anything! I can almost always count on you two to be there/here. Tony Brown is good for LJ as well.
I still read
I do what I can, most of the time.
Thank you.
LJ. Totally. I am on both Facebook and twitter, but I check them far less frequently. I check LJ at least four or five times most days. The majority of the people I care about the most are on here, and the format encourages people to actually speak in depth, comment, connect, interact, and form community. Both FB and Twitter feel more like hit and run communication to me…
Besides, I can stalk you much better here.
I read both LJ and FB every day. And I read your stuff every day, but rarely comment. I figure that you have a million people commenting, but I like the idea that if I ever have something worth saying to you, that I can find you.
I like FB for it’s quick updates. I like LJ for its more intimate feel and journal-type entries. I’m prob on FB more, but I check LJ every day.
I don’t Twitter. It’s too much to follow too quickly, and my elderly phone memory can’t handle the texts.
I’m a lurker.
Mostly because I feel like I have nothing to contribute to your post or add to the discussions they inspire.
I am your friend on twitter, as well as facebook… so I see your updates there, yet rarely respond unless it had to do with me, or if I can contribute.
XoXo
FB is faster and everyone is in one place, but it seems more shallow. somehow–you get one line to be cute. If I have a tale to tell, I tell it here (LJ).
I read all of them and rarely comment, but I rarely comment on anyone’s lj/facebook/twitter.
I read both facebook and livejournal every day and would be twitter friends with you too, though we aren’t currently (you’re deleting?)
I’m not the best commenter, but I do read everything!
You realize I owe you a hug now.
we don’t really know each other, but i read all your posts here. i don’t use twitter, and i don’t usually add people i don’t know well on facebook. i like the intimacy of lj.
i’m a lurker/poetry fan-girl which makes me feel weird about commenting. i do read your posts though. i don’t use twitter at all and use fb for keeping up with far away friends and fam.
i lurk here mostly though i do like your facebook updates as well. especially as that’s where i follow events more closely.
this is more intimate though and i don’t think i knew you had a twitter. how’s that for an answer?
hee.
word.
to secrets. and nerds.
oh! oh! and i lurk here because most times i’m not quite sure what to say other than “freaking sweet!”
and i figured so many people already do that (because your awesome knows no electronic bounds) that one voice didn’t need to chime in with just that. especially since i like to be more eloquent/rambling.
yes, like this.
wheeee!
I feel a song coming on…
I will follow you / Follow you wherever you may go!
Seriously, whichever format you choose, I’m just happy to be able to keep tabs on you! LJ is convenient because I can see your posts along with my other LJ friends. I check it at least once a week. FB is good for quick updates and picture galleries. I check it daily. I don’t follow Twitter, per se, just the few direct tweets I receive and the occasional visit to the site to see what folks are up to. But I mainly use Twitter as a way to keep my journal up to date. That way, at least I have SOMETHING posted in my journal every couple of days.
To be honest, until my most recent posts about my experiences on the interview trail, I’ve been really bad about posting here. But I’m going to try my best to remedy the situation. Also, those updates that I feel comfortable sharing with the world I plan to cross-post into FB. But I definitely utilize the private posting option on LJ the most. If it’s appropriate to share with friends or the rest of the world, I’ll put the guards down. I wish that I could be more transparent about my life. I used to think of myself as an open book. But nowadays I just feel more comfortable discussing certain things with friends face-to-face, in a chat, or on the phone. Having been on the road for just half a week now, I can definitely see the usefulness of LJ/FB/Twitter to keep a large group of people informed about what’s going on. Plus, it frees you from worrying about time differences!
As to lurking/commenting, for me it depends on the time I have available. Sometimes I only have time to read the posts and not enough time to formulate thoughtful responses. In fact, Bayani recently posted about a very similar thing. He wondered if anyone was still reading his journal. I was happy to inform him that even when I don’t respond, I still read. Perhaps I shall make it a goal to be more responsive to what I have read.
Enjoy the rest of your tour! Hopefully I’ll see you some time before Thanksgiving!
I read all your posts start to stop….I’m usually quiet because you’ve got about a million friends, and anything I’d have to say has usually already been said by someone else.
I’m not on Crackbook or Shitter, and I obviously have an attitude problem about those social networking tools.
I always love reading your insight and thoughts/observations. You got some writin’ talent, yo — anybody ever tell yah that?
Word to the third.
To echo a sentiment that a lot of people are expressing, LJ is totes more intimate, less networkey, less soundbitey. I really like it best of all the crap i do online. I recognize that it’s tough to put stuff out there and not feel that it is responded to, and it’s really up to you if you want to have that sort of virtual quality time, while everything else sort of gets more rapid fire. I keep up decently on FB. I’m not on twitter. But if i want to know how someone is doing, and they have an LJ, that’s where i go first. (I’m LJ-reticent with people who i know have a lot of friends, because i don’t wanna be on the wrong side of the signal to noise ratio, which is why you haven’t heard from me much on here.)
Of the two I use facebook (rarely, and mostly for bejeweled) and eljay, I prefer the life of the journal. There’s a good feeling here. Even as it seems more people abandon it everyday (not suggesting that I think you’d be doing that) it just makes more sense to me.
I think some things, twitter for example, are degrading language more than they are helping it. But I think eljay is good for the brain. We write more, I think, we generally read more.
I do all of my writing and commenting here on LJ, I avoid Tiwtter as much as humanly possible.
i read you here =)
(also, i owe you a survey – i just haven’t gotten there yet. whoops!)
as a rule, i read far more than i respond, & i post about once a week, more if something’s bugging me, meow meow.
on websites: i don’t like Facebook, i don’t like myspace (even tho’ i have one – free MP3 hosting FTW), & i scroll past most twitterings. if you want to connect with me through linkedin, it will be pretty much impossible, as my account has a thick layer of dust on it.
that’s about the long n’ short of it – xoxox
I follow you here, on facebook and in my dreams.
I’m way more attentive to lj than to facebook and I don’t Tweet. I’m on lj almost every day and post actual entries (not just poetry) two or so times a week.
I read yer LJ entries, and follow fb stuff when it enters my feed.
I rarely comment on anyone’s LJ, except maybe my roommate and girlfriend’s, or Ryk McIntyre’s, but that’s usually to just make fun of him.
Not sure if that qualifies me as a “lurker”, oftentimes I feel as though I have little to nothing to contribute to what you’re posting.
Oh, and I am on the Twitter-hate bandwagon as well.
I like Livejournal best. Facebook is okay for some things, and I have no idea re: twitter. I hear that it’s cool.
secret nerds are the best kinds
Definitely. I love that LJ is a more open forum for thought and not something so broken down into the smallest form of communication (unless that’s what the writer intends it to be). You can always use Twitter to just promote new LJ entries and have a bit.ly link or something sending them over this-a-way.
i read this all the time, sometimes facebook, and i dont have a twitter. I just dont like it!