Its extensive - like 200 people or so, yet I only see about a half dozen active ones on here. Maybe a few more doing twitter roboposting.
I wonder if they have gone to Facebook, twitter (where I would never find them) or have just stopped communicating. I don't think LIvejournal is attracting a lot of new people - when I joined a decade ago it ws the major platform but thats long since true. but I have over a decade of personal history in here and efforts to export the journal have failed, so I'm still here.
I'm more active on Twitter just due to how mobile I am at my present employment - and my tweets mostly do NOT repeat here anymore.
White Star Line
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I wonder how much of my friends list is still actually there
The older ones, the ones who are inclined to post more about important topics, seem to be more...reserved and introspective, or find that what they would wish to write about, isn't all that important to write about, after all. The ones who are artists seem to post - when they DO post - to FurAffinity, and then only when they are in desperate straits, or are soliciting commissions, or have an art submission to post.
Twitter CAN be a great way to send out pointed bits of information - but what it SEEMS to be, in the aggragate, is short bits of trivia or momentary feelings and impressions, of the most ephemeral sort. I will acknowledge its potential to "get the word out" about something, but not really practical for _interaction_ in-depth. Does anyone recollect a meaningful or insightful conversation being carried out over twitter?
The general mood of the times seems to be walling us off - cocooning us - from one another.
I suspect that if someone could measure the statistics of e-mail content, that even that would show a reduction in "meaningful" communications of an interpersonal sort, in a massive way.
Too much world information - and it is having the same effect as "noise". We tune out.
Scott
We're all on Google+
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