Live Journal's prospects post-layoffs (my comment on jonchiz67's

[davidfcooper]

Live Journal combines blogging with social networking and as such occupies its own niche. As a blogging platform it's not as nimble as blogspot, wordpress, or Tumblr, and Facebook is clearly state of the art for pure social networking. I hope it doesn't fall between those two stools. If, however, it cannot continue independently, rather than folding and disappearing the lesser evil would be being acquired by a more sophisticated blogging platform that aspires to improve its social networking function by importing an existing community of loyal users. Alternatively, and less desirable, it could become a blogging application on Myspace or Facebook.

Comments

[dangerouslysane.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're not leaving. If I'd wanted to just socially network, then I would have just focused on the other networking sites. As it is, I've pretty much been ignoring Friendster, because I get spam. Besides, even though I'd actually met one new person on Friendster, I'm just not too keen on it. One of the things I like about LJ is the blog feature.

And I have the best friends page in the world!

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

Shoshana joined Facebook recently, and in under a month she's connected/reconnected with 90something people she knows in real life. It definitely has its place.

[dangerouslysane.livejournal.com]

Well, that's encouraging. I've connected with a few people on Plaxo, and I think that Facebook might be okay. But I really want to keep my LJ, too!

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

I'm on Plaxo too; it's where some of my friends who are not on LJ read my LJ posts.