As most folks know, I don't write that often in my LJ, mainly due to duncandahusky posting more often about our adventures and having two people covering the same thing can be boring. However, if something very interesting happens or I want to show folks, I post it here.

So, why do I stay with LJ

Very simply, I am a big fan of reading what friends and folks I know are doing, see what what experiences they have done and makes for good conversation when I see that person.

I do have a fiction writing filter that I will post to very rarely, am I worried about being censored? Not really... If something offensive is in the story and LJ hates it and bans my user, I will be pissed but would place my writings elsewhere and either get my account back, or seek other avenues. Have folks had issues in the past for stupid reasons? Yeah, but that hasn't affected me and can't judge it was warranted or not.

I pay my $25 a year to have a paid account and I pay $10 for the extra userpics, so I am not so worried about ads. From what I have read, paid accounts and basic accounts will stay that way, if you stop paying, you go to a basic account. It is only new accounts that have the ad or pay system and I am okay with it. As footpad mentioned, just adblock the ads and say goodbye to them.

As for the strike? I feel there isn't a reason to strike. The strike will have a lot less people checking LJ and there will be a lot less updates, it will be sad that there won't be much to read, but at least it will give more time to do other stuff. The problem is that it isn't going to hurt SUP, if anything, the lack of a load on their servers and pipe will help them in the long run.

If you are unhappy with Livejournal, you can do a couple things
1) Write a letter, not email, but a real handwritten letter. It is more likely to be read.
2) No longer pay for the service. You will bounce to basic status, but that is money they don't have
3) Delete your account and go to another service. There are a lot of options out there and last I checked, the LJ software is still open source.

Livejournal has a nice interface to read what your 'friends' are doing and nothing I have found yet can really do that, outside of setting up all the different journals as RSS feeds, but Friends Only posts would be a thing of the past.

And yeah, someday everyone will leave to something new and different, which will have different challenges. For now though, I do plan on sticking here to read up on my friends. I hope you do too, but if not, that is understandable.

Current Location: Ivory Globe of Doom
Current Mood: tired