Taking Sides - Blogger vs. LiveJournal

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Who offers the best blogging service in the blogosphere?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

LiveJournal offers a more community online experience vs Blogger is more flexible to do whatever you want

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

LiveJournal is better if you're teenage, goth, or both.

(although I do have a LJ account myself, I have to admit)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Movable Type, even if you need a credit card to pay for the 'full' version. Why on earth they can't accept Paypal, I have no idea.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

caitlin OTM though I still think livejournal beats out blogger because of the sense of community and all. It's perfect for keeping in touch with friends in different areas of the country (or world). Blogger always seemed to me to be a way for wankers to become public wankers. Too self-important for livejournal and its like, they have to create their own little world where they wait for the millions of willing readers to roll in and give them the acclaim they've always felt they were worthy of. The whole "blogosphere" phenomenon of the last several years has done nothing to change this theory. And the whole trackbacks/comments on other blogger's comments on other bloggers..../fisking/etc. thing is just great. It's like watching a million intellectual masturbators make give each other sloppy handjobs.

At least those LJ "Am I a sassy emo boy?" ratings communities don't try to pretend they're doing the world a service.

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

The two serve different purposes. Blogger is a more singular thing and a tool for ease of updating of ones own site.

LJ as everyone's said is more of a community thing. But it doesnt have to be, either. Ive noted with interest some people complaining of LJ spammers, trolls, stalkers etc. I have never had any such thing, and I think its because I keep to myself on LJ, have a small(ish) friends-list, and dont participate in any communities beyond reading a couple.

The people who sign up to and post to tons of buffy slash comms or somesuch are the ones who'll attract weirdos. And LJ sure has some weirdos.

A fine example - someone posted to sydneygothic community the other day and their default avatar was a woman being fucked by a dog. Someone else complained, and one reply to her? "I didnt notice it, I guess I must have a sense of humour".

Ugh.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Gives new meaning to "Dingo got yer baby?"

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh dear ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

SP kinda covered it (I have both tho)

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

LJ is the only free online journaling service out there that doesn't crash my browser every so often. Plus, yeah, it's easy to use. Still, you can do a lot with LJ. I do think LJ gets unfairly maligned because of the high percentage of teenagers who are on that service, but the LJs people who are 21 and older have are all proof that the stereotype isn't true for every LJ or LJer out there.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

are livejournals as 'public' as blogs? obviosuly yes, they're just as accessible, but is there something abit weird about reading people's lj's if you've never met them? i wd never say reading strangers' blogs was weird, but a recent post on a lj by someone i admire kind of upset me.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

who is weirder - the weirdo who blogs or the weirdo who reads their blog?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

jerry the nipper is not a weirdo!

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

actually i'm talking about taylor parkes.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

(Jerry The Nipper is a weirdo though). I am anti-LiveJournal as since I got a mobile phone I needed something to be anti.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

LiveJournal is better if you're teenage, goth, or both.

myspace is the new livejournal.

let's all weep for myspace, amen.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 10:28 (twenty years ago)

i still like deadjournal better

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

i guess it's cos lj is v conducive to making more personal posts, henry.

all of taylor parkes' lj upsets me, i have to say. or am i thinking of s price? hmm.

i hate myspace and don't have time for it anyway.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

for some reason livejournals feel less public than blogs; reading a stranger's blog feels much more allowable than a stranger's lj. I think the friendslist function on lj makes it more... mailing-list ish, almost? direct communication, here's what i'm doing, ready-digested. a 'friends'* page of livejournals gives you the impression of a day for several people; visiting a blog is more several days for one person, and for some reason that gives it more a soapbox feel. Or maybe that's due to the quote unquote blogosphere effect. LJ also breeds laziness; to read blogs you need to type in addresses, follow links, keep bookmarks. Too much effort, o.

* i still wish they didn't call it 'friends'.

― baby i'm waiting (cis), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

I'm running a couple of LJs (my own and a community) like 'blogs' and sometimes feel like I'm intruding on the personal stuff on their readers' friendslists.

I don't use LJ for emo personal stuff but the ephemerality of it - very rare to get comments even 1 day after posting - means I feel a lot less guilty about just posting "I ate a yoghurt" style no-content entries.

LJ is very dependent on vibe - at the weekends and on some days it feels really dead and becomes quite miserable to read. When everyone's online and commenting it's much more fun and firing.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Seriously though - what is myspace FOR? You can't blog, you can send messages (why not just send 1xEMAIL) and look at a profile... oh big wow longtime fun there, oh, someone likes "socialising" well well.

Also you can do polls to count how many times you say MY HUMPS MY HUMPS MY HUMPS.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

People must consider LJ more private, cos no one so far has posted a link to theirs!

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

it's the sense of shame!

LJ posts are either public or friendsonly/private but if the former then you perhaps shouldn't feel like you're intruding as the author clearly wants anyone to read it.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

that's the best thing about lj, the ability to LOCK posts, not that i actually do it very much

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

I used to have a Livejournal which I kept for about three years. The community aspect is very strong on LJ - I didn't really view it as a blog and used it more like a message board. My posts were never (well very very rarely) personal, and tended to be about what I watched on TV the night before. Have a proper blog seems a bit scary and at the same time pointless.

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

more pointless than posting about what you watched on TV the night before? (though this can be good if done from proper critical viewpoint)

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

"Proper critical viewpoint", sah?!

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

I used to have a blog. I stopped blogging. However, I missed it so much that after a few months I went out and set up another.

I used to have a Livejournal too. I stopped using it, and I've never missed it.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

I have a LiveJournal for Emo Laffs. Haw haw haw.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

there really is no sodding difference ultimately.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

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