It seems that all of the social traffic stuff I used to get from LJ has moved on to Facebook and Twitter. I fucking hate Twitter so that is right out. I guess I have to do Facebook. I’m not happy about this. I totally resent their policies. But it’s awfully lonely on the internet with only LJ these days. (I really need to ditch MDC so I’m not counting it.)
I’m on facebook, but most of what I put on there is pretty well substance-free. :o/
S’ok. 🙂
I’ve noticed some of that, but haven’t found facebook interesting enough to bother with the timesink. If I miss out on ‘what’s happening’ ah well. I’m on the hermity side to begin with.
Also! Finally, and possibly too late for use with your squishy jam. Mom found the strawberry bread recipe. I don’t recall ever actually adding food coloring to it. The strawberries did that just fine. I also don’t remember it having nuts all that often.
1 c butter
1 1/2 c sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp salt
1 tsp lemon juice
4 eggs
1/2 tsp soda
1/2 c sour cream
3 c flour
1/2 c chopped nuts
1 c strawberry preserves
1 tbsp red food coloring
Blend first 5 ingredients in large bowl. Beat in eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Dissolve soda in sour cream; add to egg mixture. Fold in remaining ingredients; mix well. Pour batter into 2 large greased loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes or until bread tests done.
Oh that sounds good. The jam is a bit runny but still very useable in PBJs. 🙂 This recipe might use up a bunch of the stuff that got stuck in the fridge because I didn’t have enough sterilized jars. 🙂 Thanks!
i *like it* runny!
like on icescream and stuff like that there.
or to mix with plain yogurt.
nummy!
I do both but my facebook is much more about vanilla life and school for me.
A lot of the kink activity I think is going on on Fetlife… I don’t know…. LJ is really where I come for select, personal, real things in my brain….
I’m not real active in the kink scene these days and unlikely to be for a long time. That requires a level of babysitting I just don’t have.
I know the feeling. I resisted FB for a long time, but finally gave in and then (to my everlasting shame!) started posting there a lot and largely neglecting LJ.
I think I’ll go back to LJ once the FB fad wears a bit thinner (it really is the first and last blogging platform for me), but for the time being, find me on LJ …:/
I’m LJ loyal. It isn’t my first or favorite blogging platform, but g-blog is gone. 🙁 I’m feeling fussy about all the hopping to different sites I see happening. Damnit people!
You will only find things of real substance from me here on LJ. I don’t post very personal things on FB or Twitter at all.
I have over 100 people on my friends list and I see between 2 and 10 posts a day on LJ. Even if the FB stuff is of less substance, it would be a way to feel less lonely.
Gotcha.
Facebook for me is a place to find out what my high school friends look like now, as well as random shit other friends do. I consider myself closer (as close as one can be through the internet) to people on LJ than on Facebook. I’ll only read Facebook every couple days or so, just to see if there’s anything interesting. I don’t entirely dig their interface/how interaction works/the Wall thing, wtf, so yeah, I’m keeping LJ the primary means of computer long-form communication.
Besides, Facebook’s picture galleries annoy me a little.
Twitter is for The Twits.
Biggest problems with FB & Twitter is the limited nature of the communication. It’s really difficult to write longer form messages in either. It’s really easy to write vacuous, short messages, however.
For me, lately, I haven’t had anything that I care to write about in a longer form so FB has been fine, but I’m sensing life is gonna be having some big changes in the near future which I’ll probably write about in LJ, not FB.
I agree with you about Twitter. Not fun at all.
Facebook helped participate in the demise of my blog I think, and I’m somewhat ashamed of how often I still check it (Facebook). This is probably because it is definitely really good at helping me not feel isolated, since someone I know is posting something almost all the time. It’s also for that reason that I think it’s particularly addictive. It’s so tempting to keep checking again and again to see who has posted an update, no matter how stupid.
I recently set up my account to link to my (infrequent) blog posts, which is kind of convenient, and gets me more readers and comments. Not sure if that works with live journal.
I have more problems with LJ than facebook. The whole “no, we’re not going to ban a user for blatant TOS-breaking anti-semitism, instead you should make your community invite-only” attitude plus the massive “pedophilia” (except…you know…it wasn’t pedophilia) account deletion thing just does not equal happy.
Er…did any of that make sense? XP
But it’s sooo much fun to see what they’ll ban next!
Seriously, I’m tempted to post the FB logo (what they put up when they delete profile pics) as my profile pic and report it just to see if they delete it.
I’m a lot more pissy about the Stalin-esque quality of MDC than FB being lame about pictures. Anything that doesn’t 100% tow the line of MDC group think is deleted. That makes me really angry.
maybe we could take up a collection
and ask carlos to bring g-blog back to life?
is he bribable?
black mailable?
would a parade of nekked people help?
no way am i posting where my family/coporeal friends can see.