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It's kind of a famous Stupid Comic and I'm sure that everybody was wondering when we were going to get around to it. Well, here ya go, kids. I give you... SKATEMAN.
I don't want to say that it's a solid ironclad rule that artists shouldn't write their own material, but sometimes it's a good idea to run these things past other people before you go through all the hassle of pencilling and inking and printing and distribution. Don't miss exciting hard drivin' roller rockin' SKATING today at STUPID COMICS!!
Been seeing comments here and there across my LJ friends page from people who have noticed things on LJ quieting down now that a lot of people have moved to Facebook or Twitter or whatever. And there are some who think it's a bad thing. Me, I think it's swell. A lot of the urgency and the drama has completely vanished from LJ. I'm not getting hostile anonymous commentary every time I post a political opinion. Things I write about anime conventions aren't being taken as Company Policy any more. LJ is calmer and less paranoid, at least from where I'm sitting.
I have a Facebook, but I don't use it a lot. The experience seems to be centered largely around the kind of meaningless trivia that used to clog up my LJ friends page - quizzes, games, that current high-larious video that fifty people have already embedded and fifty more people will be embedding - and I think it's great that there's a place for that kind of thing, but it's not something I need to check more than once a day, if that much. If I didn't have to keep updating my Facebook security settings every other day it might be a more pleasant experience.
One thing I like about Facebook is that you can block other users whom you don't wish to have FB contact with. That's a feature that LJ should have adopted on day one, would have saved everybody a lot of trouble. Another feature about Facebook I like is that it's blocked from my work, so the amount of time I'm going to waste there is limited.
I never in my life used IRC chat and have turned off the chat functions on both Yahoo and Gmail. I'm not a chat person. But Twitter seems to be filling that void in my life nicely; it's like a chat room for the whole world. It's fun to bounce stuff off people and see where it lands. Also it's limited to 140 characters, no quizzes, clubs, likes, presents, videos, macros, memes; the whole inarticulate cliche-driven doofus culture that has conquered wide swaths of online space is having trouble getting a foothold there.
So now that these other social media networks have taken some of the air out of LJ. Users are forced to face the fact that LJ isn't an attention-getting device or a lifestyle choice or an online replacement for their real life, but a journal - something for you to write your thoughts in. Hard to work up drama about that.
I don't want to say that it's a solid ironclad rule that artists shouldn't write their own material, but sometimes it's a good idea to run these things past other people before you go through all the hassle of pencilling and inking and printing and distribution. Don't miss exciting hard drivin' roller rockin' SKATING today at STUPID COMICS!!
Been seeing comments here and there across my LJ friends page from people who have noticed things on LJ quieting down now that a lot of people have moved to Facebook or Twitter or whatever. And there are some who think it's a bad thing. Me, I think it's swell. A lot of the urgency and the drama has completely vanished from LJ. I'm not getting hostile anonymous commentary every time I post a political opinion. Things I write about anime conventions aren't being taken as Company Policy any more. LJ is calmer and less paranoid, at least from where I'm sitting.
I have a Facebook, but I don't use it a lot. The experience seems to be centered largely around the kind of meaningless trivia that used to clog up my LJ friends page - quizzes, games, that current high-larious video that fifty people have already embedded and fifty more people will be embedding - and I think it's great that there's a place for that kind of thing, but it's not something I need to check more than once a day, if that much. If I didn't have to keep updating my Facebook security settings every other day it might be a more pleasant experience.
One thing I like about Facebook is that you can block other users whom you don't wish to have FB contact with. That's a feature that LJ should have adopted on day one, would have saved everybody a lot of trouble. Another feature about Facebook I like is that it's blocked from my work, so the amount of time I'm going to waste there is limited.
I never in my life used IRC chat and have turned off the chat functions on both Yahoo and Gmail. I'm not a chat person. But Twitter seems to be filling that void in my life nicely; it's like a chat room for the whole world. It's fun to bounce stuff off people and see where it lands. Also it's limited to 140 characters, no quizzes, clubs, likes, presents, videos, macros, memes; the whole inarticulate cliche-driven doofus culture that has conquered wide swaths of online space is having trouble getting a foothold there.
So now that these other social media networks have taken some of the air out of LJ. Users are forced to face the fact that LJ isn't an attention-getting device or a lifestyle choice or an online replacement for their real life, but a journal - something for you to write your thoughts in. Hard to work up drama about that.
