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LiveJournal friends are still so ubiquitous in my life that I often forget how we met. Many are (still) writers. When I scroll through my Twitter feed, I see my LiveJournal friends. When I got married, LiveJournal friends stood in the sun and cheered. We’ve known and loved each other for well over a decade. We’ve listened to one another’s daily lives and confessions and complaints. Most of us have never met in person or even talked on the phone, but we’ve read each others’ diaries and found ourselves there. It’s true that we’ve only ever known each other on the internet.
But still.
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Lindsey Gates-Market, In Celebration of Old-School LiveJournal.
The whole article is worth reading, but this passage really spoke to me.
(via lotuskasumi)
The random strikethrough banner I found in my old files and posted on a whim here a while back occasionally gets reblogged somewhere. It’s on another spike just now, and it’s making me very nostalgic for the days when there was a social media website that was designed for use, not to use you. But that train has long since left the station…
“
LiveJournal friends are still so ubiquitous in my life that I often forget how we met. Many are (still) writers. When I scroll through my Twitter feed, I see my LiveJournal friends. When I got married, LiveJournal friends stood in the sun and cheered. We’ve known and loved each other for well over a decade. We’ve listened to one another’s daily lives and confessions and complaints. Most of us have never met in person or even talked on the phone, but we’ve read each others’ diaries and found ourselves there. It’s true that we’ve only ever known each other on the internet.
But still.
”
-
Lindsey Gates-Market, In Celebration of Old-School LiveJournal.
The whole article is worth reading, but this passage really spoke to me.
(via lotuskasumi)
The random strikethrough banner I found in my old files and posted on a whim here a while back occasionally gets reblogged somewhere. It’s on another spike just now, and it’s making me very nostalgic for the days when there was a social media website that was designed for use, not to use you. But that train has long since left the station…
