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strangevisitor7 and mischief5 about this over the last week: the Twitter hate out there. It reminds me so much of the battles on the fandom email lists I belonged to about the evils of LJ and how it was ruining fandom. And that debate is still going in some quarters; there are many people who still avoid LJ like the plague. And before that it was the arguments over the evils of free email lists, when services like Egroups and Onelist appeared. Why? Because if just any old person could start a fandom list, it splintered the fandom. There should just be one or two lists for a fandom on the internet, was the argument. Oh, and there was the IRC v. AIM/YM debates as well. I still prefer IRC, and would use it in a hearbeat if there was still anyone left around to use it with. But my fandom friends pretty much all migrated to chatroom services. Like my move to LJ to follow the fandom migrations, I finally gave up on IRC and moved to the chatroom services. Truth be told, I still prefer email too, but I realize time marches on. I use Twitter, and find it to be a lot of fun, but I refuse to be on Facebook! So there [stomps foot] But LJ is pretty much my main fandom digs these days.
Where will be be ten years from now? Wish I knew, because then I'd be rich! But twelve years ago, I couldn't have conceived that my email based online life would be supplanted by something like LJ. And yet, it has been. Maybe shunts in the brain is going to be the next 'big thing'! How about virtual fanfic? You write a story, upload it to some service and it creates a holographic version that the 'reader' views through VR goggles. Truth is, I don't know. But one thing I do know for sure -- we'll be arguing over it!
strangevisitor7 and mischief5 about this over the last week: the Twitter hate out there. It reminds me so much of the battles on the fandom email lists I belonged to about the evils of LJ and how it was ruining fandom. And that debate is still going in some quarters; there are many people who still avoid LJ like the plague. And before that it was the arguments over the evils of free email lists, when services like Egroups and Onelist appeared. Why? Because if just any old person could start a fandom list, it splintered the fandom. There should just be one or two lists for a fandom on the internet, was the argument. Oh, and there was the IRC v. AIM/YM debates as well. I still prefer IRC, and would use it in a hearbeat if there was still anyone left around to use it with. But my fandom friends pretty much all migrated to chatroom services. Like my move to LJ to follow the fandom migrations, I finally gave up on IRC and moved to the chatroom services. Truth be told, I still prefer email too, but I realize time marches on. I use Twitter, and find it to be a lot of fun, but I refuse to be on Facebook! So there [stomps foot] But LJ is pretty much my main fandom digs these days. Where will be be ten years from now? Wish I knew, because then I'd be rich! But twelve years ago, I couldn't have conceived that my email based online life would be supplanted by something like LJ. And yet, it has been. Maybe shunts in the brain is going to be the next 'big thing'! How about virtual fanfic? You write a story, upload it to some service and it creates a holographic version that the 'reader' views through VR goggles. Truth is, I don't know. But one thing I do know for sure -- we'll be arguing over it!
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Date: 2009-04-29 11:23 pm (UTC)From:I got a kick out of the girls defending the Yahoo groups. I find Yahoo Groups completely annoying because I can't tell what people are responding to sometimes and the threads get all mixed up.
I'm an old fan but new to fandom and you know I am a LJ cheerleader. I hope that Lj evolves with the time to me it is the perfect balance of social and fandom.
You should patten that virtual download idea because you know someone will make it
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Date: 2009-04-30 12:28 am (UTC)From:There's lists I'm on these days that they include everything over and over, so a single email has pages and pages of text. No one knows how to trim their posts anymore. Drives me CRAZY! LOL Yes, I'm an old fogy.
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Date: 2009-04-30 12:42 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-04-30 12:48 am (UTC)From:I've actually stopped participating on some lists due to the sheer overload of untrimmed email replies. And if you're on digest, it's a nightmare. On personal emails it's bearable [g], but on lists getting hundreds of emails a day, it just is unworkable.
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Date: 2009-04-30 12:52 am (UTC)From:I think it's becasue in my profession the emails represent a paper trail so i never remove stuff - so habit to just hit reply and send it all
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Date: 2009-04-30 12:58 am (UTC)From:I had to actually write a tutorial for my House list to show people how to trim/snip replies. On a busy email list, say even 50-100 posts a day, if people hit reply to all over and over, the people on digest will get a digest that is a monster and they can't find the new info, only all the same posts repeating over and over.
And trimming served a dual purpose back in the day. Most of us had a bandwidth limit, so every unnecessary word added to that. Go over you limit and you either had your email shut off, or you were charged a penalty.