A question for you all.
Apr. 16th, 2009 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randomlingI'm still undecided about what I'm going to do with my Dreamwidth account.
Which is silly, in a way. Or maybe not. Either way - it's a thing that's there. I think this project is entirely fabulous and I really want to support it; that's why I'm here. I appear to be meeting new people here, and joining communities that would probably seem too "big and scary" to participate in on LJ, and that's awesome. But what am I going to do here?
No, really.
I don't want to leave LJ entirely, because I have a certain number of friends there who are unlikely to migrate. So I'll probably keep the LJ around. I have friends there who I'll want to stay in touch with.
I don't really want to cross-post, mostly because... well, it's like this. I have three LiveJournals. That gets complicated. Do I want to merge personal, fannish stuff, and fan-writing here? Do I want a separate something for the non-fan-writing that I'm not doing at the moment anyway? And do I want to have them all as one thing here and cross-post to three different journals on LJ? No, no I don't.
My personal journal there is mostly flocked - but I don't want to keep doing that for various reasons, partly because I now have a public blog that shares some fairly personal stuff, albeit under a name that isn't all mine.
My fannish journal, I rarely use these days, and I'm not sure I want to make that distinction between "fannish friends" and "real friends"; some of my fannish friends are among my best "real" friends, ever.
And the fan-writing journal, well, has been quiet for some time due to a lack of words on my part, but had a separate flist all its own, because there are people who like to read me but don't really know me. Which is fine. (Flattering, even. And awesome. I love my readers.)
So what to do?
I like having the "public writing blog" because it's a new and interesting thing to have a "real blog" instead of a journal on one of these journaling services, and it's a different mode of writing that seems more like it's to-be-read instead of for-communication-with-people.
I like having my LJ. I like the people there, even if I have my doubts about the way the LJ service is going.
I love it here at Dreamwidth because it feels so fresh and new and everybody is excited about having a new sandbox to play in and about building the community here from scratch. And there are so many interesting new people to meet and I already love you all.
I don't really know how I'm going to resolve this, but for the future, this journal may be... primarily wibbling about what I'm going to do with this journal. Either that, or I find a theme to make it distinct from the other journals and blogs I keep.
Something like that.
Which is silly, in a way. Or maybe not. Either way - it's a thing that's there. I think this project is entirely fabulous and I really want to support it; that's why I'm here. I appear to be meeting new people here, and joining communities that would probably seem too "big and scary" to participate in on LJ, and that's awesome. But what am I going to do here?
No, really.
I don't want to leave LJ entirely, because I have a certain number of friends there who are unlikely to migrate. So I'll probably keep the LJ around. I have friends there who I'll want to stay in touch with.
I don't really want to cross-post, mostly because... well, it's like this. I have three LiveJournals. That gets complicated. Do I want to merge personal, fannish stuff, and fan-writing here? Do I want a separate something for the non-fan-writing that I'm not doing at the moment anyway? And do I want to have them all as one thing here and cross-post to three different journals on LJ? No, no I don't.
My personal journal there is mostly flocked - but I don't want to keep doing that for various reasons, partly because I now have a public blog that shares some fairly personal stuff, albeit under a name that isn't all mine.
My fannish journal, I rarely use these days, and I'm not sure I want to make that distinction between "fannish friends" and "real friends"; some of my fannish friends are among my best "real" friends, ever.
And the fan-writing journal, well, has been quiet for some time due to a lack of words on my part, but had a separate flist all its own, because there are people who like to read me but don't really know me. Which is fine. (Flattering, even. And awesome. I love my readers.)
So what to do?
I like having the "public writing blog" because it's a new and interesting thing to have a "real blog" instead of a journal on one of these journaling services, and it's a different mode of writing that seems more like it's to-be-read instead of for-communication-with-people.
I like having my LJ. I like the people there, even if I have my doubts about the way the LJ service is going.
I love it here at Dreamwidth because it feels so fresh and new and everybody is excited about having a new sandbox to play in and about building the community here from scratch. And there are so many interesting new people to meet and I already love you all.
I don't really know how I'm going to resolve this, but for the future, this journal may be... primarily wibbling about what I'm going to do with this journal. Either that, or I find a theme to make it distinct from the other journals and blogs I keep.
Something like that.
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Date: 2009-04-17 12:31 pm (UTC)But yes, it would seem weird to leave LJ completely in the dust after so long for me, too. There are way too many people that I want to keep in touch with!
So what I'll do with my Dreamwidth, I don't know yet.