See, this is something I wouldn't even know about, because I don't have a Facebook and I mostly use Twitter to keep up with fandom friends.
When LJ got started, what was innovative about it was the community aspect -- automatic aggregation of friends' posts, and a comment system that was much better than any other online journal service at the time (and is still better than the non-threaded comments on many blogs). It was clearly designed not for one person to talk at lots of other people, but for people to talk to each other. "True" blogging services have not gone in that direction, as far as I can see, so the separation has remained, until now I guess.
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Date: 2010-09-02 04:07 am (UTC)When LJ got started, what was innovative about it was the community aspect -- automatic aggregation of friends' posts, and a comment system that was much better than any other online journal service at the time (and is still better than the non-threaded comments on many blogs). It was clearly designed not for one person to talk at lots of other people, but for people to talk to each other. "True" blogging services have not gone in that direction, as far as I can see, so the separation has remained, until now I guess.