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chani ([personal profile] chani) wrote2006-05-29 05:54 pm
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Sometimes I wonder

What's the point? What's the point in doing this LJ thing again? 

I can't tell you how many times I have been about to quit. 

Because I had a dream, you know. It was to create a place where we could gather and discuss screen stuff around a virtual cup of tea.  I wanted to use the web in order to hold a salon as Julie de Lespinasse or La marquise du Deffand did in the 18th century. We would have discussed movies and television as their guests used to discuss books and ideas of the Enlightement at the time.

But overall I failed. 

The only times people really gathered in here were when the topic was about kinks or about commenting/lurking/de-friending because they felt curious, teased or in need of explaining themselves...which means they came when it was not a salon but rather a playground. It was cool, but it wasn't what this LJ was supposed to be.

 I've indulged myself with playground stuff, I've posted memes when they were connected to the Jossverse or to movies, or just because I knew some of "my friends" liked to learn things about their flist and it was a way to connect -which is good- but I could have done the very same thing on their LJ. 

I'm all for the Internet to be a place of sociability, but it's something I can have elsewhere, on boards, on my friends' LJ...


So what's the point? 

Why should I keep on updating? Does anyhting of this  still worthwhile? Has it ever been?

I can't help thinking that somehow, somewhere, I made a mistake or somewhat lost my way...

[identity profile] the-shebeen.livejournal.com 2006-05-29 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't know me since I mainly just drop in and lurk on your journal from time to time.

I pretty much agree with what you say about LJ. I mainly use it to keep up with other people, but I post private entries for myself. Frankly I think most LJers are a fickle bunch, and the fandom-oriented ones in particular.

Personal thoughts and in-depth commentaries pretty much go under the radar unless you've got a large, built-in readership. For the most part, I think people come to LJ for amusement and distraction from the annoyances of their daily lives, so anything that doesn't amuse (unless it's a cry for help) is just skipped over.

I'd also make allowances for the 'I have absolutely no idea what to say to this' contingent. People do read posts, but to go the extra bit and respond to it? It's easier to comment on something silly and light than on something personal and thoughtful.

Just my €.02.

[identity profile] frenchani.livejournal.com 2006-05-30 09:51 am (UTC)(link)
I would raise a glass of Paddy and drink with you (or one of Tullamore, it's good too) if you wish!

"Fickle" is a pretty accurate word, indeed. Boards have died because of that. Ahhh the unbearable lightness of the being...

Le temps ronge l'amour comme l'acide

[identity profile] the-shebeen.livejournal.com 2006-05-30 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
You found my weakness! I need no excuse at all to stop for a whiskey!

On a completely different (and snarky) note, Jane Birkin looks more and more like a strung-out crack whore.


[identity profile] frenchani.livejournal.com 2006-05-30 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, she isn't too bad-looking for a 60 years old woman, but yes she's been cultivating and untidy look for years and it's getting worse and worse and sometimes when she's speaking she can be just as "aware" as Jean Claude Vandamme! Maybe they both are on the same thing...