LiveJournal

LiverJournal used to be an amazing site where I could express my deepest concerns with a couple dozen viewers (pretty much all girls around my age!) and get honest feedback about what I should do with the situations at hand.

Sadly the site has sort of died away and my friend that I knew well from LJ has not posted in almost four years. I've tried to rejuvenate my old LJ but it's not worth it.

While I never got a large amount of responses the ones I got were always genuine and helpful.

Are we still living in early 2000? LiveJournal was great back in the past. The website looks archaic even after some revamps. It's 2021, update the design and layout to be more modern. Some aspects and elements have been updated over time but it's still atrocious to look at. However, it does what it's meant to do. I guess that's a plus. I can't get back into using LiveJournal. Sorry.

From my experience, LiveJournal is one of the most interesting virtual communities to be a part of. Not only is it a place where you can write your thoughts, it's a great place to find/meet people with similar interests. You'll never feel like "just another blogger out there" here.

For starters, the website is very user-friendly. You'll never feel like you're in the dark. They've got a really thorough FAQ as well. When the website is down, their twitter lets you know exactly what is going on. They're always on top of fixing bugs, so you know they've got their priorities straight.

Definitely join some communities if you make an account. There typically aren't any unnecessary barriers that prevents you from joining your community of choice (i. E. Must read 50 lines of rules and find that hidden "text" to know you've 'read' the rules before joining).

The great thing is that there's a community for just about anything. There are communities dedicated to making friends, to people who like to cross-stitch, people interested in travel, makeup, fashion, TV shows, fandoms, and the list goes on...

I've actually met some really wonderful friends through LJ! When I've got a question or want to share something, LJ is my go-to place. There are always people reading what you have to say, and people reply because they're interested in what you have to say (duh! That's why you're in the same community)!

I must say, LJ is nothing without the people using it, but they must have done something right to have attracted all those amazing people :)

LiveJournal is dead, and I am not yet. How I was a blogger on LiveJournal, where the world is heading, where the top Bloggers have gone. How you can make money on LJ. The few authors I still read.

I remember when Livejournal began, and so I'm really quite surprised to see that it's still here after all these years. It predates blogging, though the concept is similar, and it has much more of a focus as a site for interest groups and the like-minded than blogging communities in which every blogger does their own thing independently.

Journalling isn't that different from blogging, though a journal is a personal diary by definition, and while a blog may also serve that function many bloggers use theirs to address the public on much broader issues. Livejournal permits both, but has its roots in more personal outpourings. Along with the other venues of its day, notably Tripod and Angelfire, it found itself catering for teenage angst and provided more in the way of safety in numbers than later blogging sites would do.

From my fairly brief look around, after discovering that the site was still very much thriving after more than ten years, it doesn't look so different now than it did then. It's still very much group-oriented, and it seems that a fair few of them are regularly updated.

There is a two-tier structure to the site, with basic free accounts that supply enough features for the average user, and paid premium accounts that offer better presentation, more content options, more photos and so forth. It's usually a good idea to experiment with a free account first, and see how you get along with people around you.

Additionally, you have the choice to allow visitors to comment in your journal, and you can choose which, if any, entries you want to remain private on a per-entry basis.

For newcomers, the site offers ways to find communities and members who might interest you and even a random choice button that picks a journal out of the digital hat if you don't know what to look at first. The one I got was in Russian, showing that Livejournal has expanded far from its American roots. All well worth a look around, if you're seeking something a bit different and more social than Blogger.

BTW the automatic tagging thingy here at SJ categorizes this site as "celebrity gossip", which it isn't.