I seriously must be the only person in the universe who has no feelings on the matter. It strikes me as stupid and unnecessary to be sure, but it never occurred to me to be voraciously pissed off. Maybe this is BECAUSE I take pains to keep my LJ life and my Facebook life so separate, and the against-my-better-judgment cross-contamination odds for me personally are so slim. But, I dunno. I swear I've seen everyone being so pissed off about it, and I really just think it's like a superfluous addition that quite frankly only irritates me because I can't figure out how LJ thought that Facebook and LJ were ever meant to be together. They're totally separate platforms for a reason. It frankly makes no sense to me at all. If it's so important for one to connect them, then you can do it easily on a personal website. I could do it on my own website right now if I felt like it. Then, anyone who cares about me SO MUCH that they want to read shit I post on my Facebook AND shit I post on LJ could do so...but on the one hand I seriously doubt that anybody would care enough to look.
But I mean, I pretty much agree with you in the sense that Facebook is NOT conducive to being central to a fandom in the way that LJ or indeed any other blogging platform might be. Oh my god, last September 5th was when I went to New York. I just realized this. I'm sorry, I didn't do the math and figure it out until right this second and for some reason that's apparently an important anniversary to me. That's so fantastic.
Anyway but back to what I was saying (you got to witness this one-time event just now), I agree that Facebook and LJ are so different that I can't actually see why it was ever thought of as a generally good idea...but I don't think it's like an evil hellacious idea. I just think it's extraneous. For me, at least, Facebook serves the same purpose that somewhat more complicated text messaging would. It's a way to keep in touch with people when I wouldn't feel like calling them. I can send and receive pictures on it. What I say on it doesn't have to be important. It can be like, "I just ate a burrito and man was it good!" I mean I guess it doesn't have to be on LJ, either, but I'm not likely to post a long and complicated discussion of my feelings on Facebook. It's basically Livejournal without the sentiment, which is pretty much not LJ at all. Oh shit...I just realized I left water boiling in the other room half an hour ago because my dad is too stupid to fucking know how to do it himself. All right, I have to go and be pissed because my dad refuses to make spaghetti for my sister. Seriously, though, what is that? There's no way it's okay. There are two possibilities: that he seriously doesn't know how to cook spaghetti (which I don't actually doubt), or that he's too lazy to cook spaghetti (which I also don't doubt). I know it's not a huge thing to have to do it for him, but I was in the middle of something earlier when he interrupted me like four times to make me do it. It's like if I showed up and interrupted a phone call he was on four times to ask him if he could get me a glass of water. I mean, jesus, he could've done it himself like 14 times by now. God.
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Date: 2010-09-06 12:45 am (UTC)But I mean, I pretty much agree with you in the sense that Facebook is NOT conducive to being central to a fandom in the way that LJ or indeed any other blogging platform might be. Oh my god, last September 5th was when I went to New York. I just realized this. I'm sorry, I didn't do the math and figure it out until right this second and for some reason that's apparently an important anniversary to me. That's so fantastic.
Anyway but back to what I was saying (you got to witness this one-time event just now), I agree that Facebook and LJ are so different that I can't actually see why it was ever thought of as a generally good idea...but I don't think it's like an evil hellacious idea. I just think it's extraneous. For me, at least, Facebook serves the same purpose that somewhat more complicated text messaging would. It's a way to keep in touch with people when I wouldn't feel like calling them. I can send and receive pictures on it. What I say on it doesn't have to be important. It can be like, "I just ate a burrito and man was it good!" I mean I guess it doesn't have to be on LJ, either, but I'm not likely to post a long and complicated discussion of my feelings on Facebook. It's basically Livejournal without the sentiment, which is pretty much not LJ at all. Oh shit...I just realized I left water boiling in the other room half an hour ago because my dad is too stupid to fucking know how to do it himself. All right, I have to go and be pissed because my dad refuses to make spaghetti for my sister. Seriously, though, what is that? There's no way it's okay. There are two possibilities: that he seriously doesn't know how to cook spaghetti (which I don't actually doubt), or that he's too lazy to cook spaghetti (which I also don't doubt). I know it's not a huge thing to have to do it for him, but I was in the middle of something earlier when he interrupted me like four times to make me do it. It's like if I showed up and interrupted a phone call he was on four times to ask him if he could get me a glass of water. I mean, jesus, he could've done it himself like 14 times by now. God.