give up livejournal

I’ve got three blogs which now serve the purpose, and there are rss feeds going to LJ so my friends can easily read posts.

I’ll call this done.

I’ve finally deleted my journal! That site has really gone downhill the past few years, ever since they made it available to everyone instead of with a code. WICKED drama and know-it-alls who really know nothing, and are just there to argue to look smart. Plus, it’s such a time sink with no real value. I used to read a lot of communities – looking back, I can’t say I ever actually learned anything from them. And it seems like every user that is still there is all about counting calories and being anorexic and cutting. LJ is just the Internet’s loony-bin.

I managed to escape LiveJournal earlier this year when they went all censorship crazy. I set up a WordPress blog on my own domain name, where i can write whatever i want. I use OpenID, gravatar and RSS to retain a sense of community. There is life after LiveJournal!!

LJ really brings out the ridiculous melodrama in a lot of people (including myself). I used to post about 10 times a day. It’s frightening looking back on it.

Joined NaBloPoMo with the new blog… haven’t had time for LJ

I’ve got a new blog in which to post some of my observations… That ought to help some.

I can’t purge my LJ yet because I’m not home to find my printed out journals and see what the last date I printed was, but I’m definitely done! I just need to find somewhere else to journal, if I so desire (I’m starting to lose the point though).

My problem is not so much with the LJ community (you make the community when you pick your friends…) as with Six Apart and their poor choices.

I think I might go from LJ to a more conventional blog…. but I want to think about it for a while first, and download my entries before I delete my existing journal.

I’ve managed to make my LJ all private entries. Phase I complete. Nice to know people can’t sneak onto it and read my entries anymore!

This is going to take me longer than I thought. I HAVE found however that no matter where I write/type, it’s pretty cathartic. The atmosphere at LJ is pushing me out, maybe it’s because it is a crass, judgmental, younger crowd who’d rather base arguments on “OMGZZ UR STUPIT LOLZ” than factual debate. I’m definitely thinking of moving to WordPress or Blogger.

If I could cut out Myspace, I can do it for Livejournal.