Yeah, I'm not sure why they relied on Tumblr to recruit participants (not "partipants" like I wrote in my post, LOL). It's like going to an ice cream parlor, and asking people what kinds of dessert they like. Don't be surprised if they all mention ice cream.
While I get why people left LJ, I don't understand how Tumblr became its replacement for the "social" aspect of fandom. There's so little interaction among its users, regardless of the common interests. The inability to have a discussion there is why the people I met ended up migrating to Twitter, so we could actually "talk" to one another, even if it's only in 280-character increments. None of them were even aware of the existence of LJ.
(BTW, I remember you coining the phrase "the gonorrhea of the internet" to describe Facebook once, and I've been thinking about that a lot lately. It's so accurate.)
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Date: 2018-04-06 02:24 pm (UTC)Yeah, I'm not sure why they relied on Tumblr to recruit participants (not "partipants" like I wrote in my post, LOL). It's like going to an ice cream parlor, and asking people what kinds of dessert they like. Don't be surprised if they all mention ice cream.
While I get why people left LJ, I don't understand how Tumblr became its replacement for the "social" aspect of fandom. There's so little interaction among its users, regardless of the common interests. The inability to have a discussion there is why the people I met ended up migrating to Twitter, so we could actually "talk" to one another, even if it's only in 280-character increments. None of them were even aware of the existence of LJ.
(BTW, I remember you coining the phrase "the gonorrhea of the internet" to describe Facebook once, and I've been thinking about that a lot lately. It's so accurate.)