bevjunior | waves at work place productivity as it cruises by (Reply)

so i have a myspace. it was created for the reason as the alternate livejournal - for hiding ... that proved pretty pointless, i suppose.

my experience on livejournal was never a popularity contest. i made the random few fantastic (fandom) friends i did, and was more or less content with that. unless i was posting fanfic (feedback me now!) i just paid attention to my end of the spectrum - my only care about f-list size was whether i could follow all of it. this is true of my life with livejournal today. the alternate lj has floated right around 30 friends the whole time i've had it, and the last few months i was starting to feel the need for more just so there would be more frequent posts/distractions and discussions.

my experience on myspace has been nearly the exact opposite. i love it as tool for promotion and happens that i have something to promote, but as a personal blog and a venue for self-expression? forget about it. unless the blog has the particular title of "suck my cock you horny bastard" you'll seldom recieve a comment of any kind, and it's the kind of place that your high school lackeys and ex-barelyfriends will track you down and find out everything they can about your life so that they can take it to the gas station on the corner in your hometown and tell flo who can tell everyone (this hasn't actually happened to me, but i imagine there are many instances where it has).

furthermore, lj works because it's entire raison d'detre (fr sp?) is very true to the essence of journalling. sure it's interactive, but it interacts in this way that... what i'm trying to say is that there's this class to lj that seems inherent.

there's something about going to my profile and not seeing a ginormous banner ad for outpersonals.com or getyourfreepinkrazrnowholla.com that warms my soul.

my myspace is james' right hand. all the blogs are friends only. well, except for one ... and i think it looks pretty in a way i've never been able to make my lj, but all the same ... it's kind of without.