I think my trajectory is almost the opposite of yours; I had been reading traditional blogs before I joined LJ, and was toying with the idea of starting one of my own. I wasn't sure if I had enough to say or enough time to keep it up though. Then I found two or three of my quite good friends were on LJ. I was soon reading enough different journals regularly that not having an account was getting annoying.
At first I intended my journal as primarily a feed reader and secondarily a blog, but as more and more of my friends joined up it became more of a social activity for me. The more I've used LJ the less I've been shy about writing personal diary type stuff that's only interesting to my friends; after all, I do have several dozen of my friends reading and they make up probably over half my audience, so why not?
I have also tried to treat my journal like a blog though. LJ isn't necessarily well geared to that, but I have been doing things like joining blog rings and other meta-blog type organizations. And I use my LJ address when I comment on other non-LJ blogs, so I'm sort of establishing a (minor) identity in the "blogosphere". Last time I was vanity googling, I was surprised (and pleased) to discover that my LJ has been traded, and is even doing relatively well, on Blogshares.
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Date: January 10th, 2005 04:50 pm (UTC)From:I think my trajectory is almost the opposite of yours; I had been reading traditional blogs before I joined LJ, and was toying with the idea of starting one of my own. I wasn't sure if I had enough to say or enough time to keep it up though. Then I found two or three of my quite good friends were on LJ. I was soon reading enough different journals regularly that not having an account was getting annoying.
At first I intended my journal as primarily a feed reader and secondarily a blog, but as more and more of my friends joined up it became more of a social activity for me. The more I've used LJ the less I've been shy about writing personal diary type stuff that's only interesting to my friends; after all, I do have several dozen of my friends reading and they make up probably over half my audience, so why not?
I have also tried to treat my journal like a blog though. LJ isn't necessarily well geared to that, but I have been doing things like joining blog rings and other meta-blog type organizations. And I use my LJ address when I comment on other non-LJ blogs, so I'm sort of establishing a (minor) identity in the "blogosphere". Last time I was vanity googling, I was surprised (and pleased) to discover that my LJ has been traded, and is even doing relatively well, on Blogshares.