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kisthaI find myself often stunned at the somewhat bizarre way comments pile (or do not) pile up. There seems to be no rhyme or reason. Stunningly random, and totally irritating.
You can write a provocative article about important "flame worthy" topics or deep self analysis and get no responses.
You can write the equivalent of "ohmygod I'm so depressed and bored" or "LOL nothing to do!" in two sentences or less, and get buried in responses.
LJ is a weird and sometimes creepy little interface with the world. It's amazing how I catch myself, thinking "Nobody commented. They must not love me." "I thought that was funny, doesn't anyone care?" "Who could pass up cute animal pictures?" I know that these things are not necessarily true, especially not in any universal sense. Yet it happens.
Why does it matter to me? Why does it bother me that it matters? Probably because I started this journal to be a conversation with people I didn't know, and be more of a spiritual/deep thoughts journal, and it's pretty much digressed to "standard LJ-ing." And I wonder if it degraded because no one uses LJ to have "discussions" or "conversation". Yet we meet new friends this way...
It's weird.
And an even weirder thing that has popped up just lately is that if I put my computer in "Standby" mode, I lose sound (a restart fixes the problem). But every time I put it on standby, when I come back to check LJ someone has posted a movie or clip or song, and I have to restart the computer to hear it.
LJ, it's a freaky, freaky thing.
You can write a provocative article about important "flame worthy" topics or deep self analysis and get no responses.
You can write the equivalent of "ohmygod I'm so depressed and bored" or "LOL nothing to do!" in two sentences or less, and get buried in responses.
LJ is a weird and sometimes creepy little interface with the world. It's amazing how I catch myself, thinking "Nobody commented. They must not love me." "I thought that was funny, doesn't anyone care?" "Who could pass up cute animal pictures?" I know that these things are not necessarily true, especially not in any universal sense. Yet it happens.
Why does it matter to me? Why does it bother me that it matters? Probably because I started this journal to be a conversation with people I didn't know, and be more of a spiritual/deep thoughts journal, and it's pretty much digressed to "standard LJ-ing." And I wonder if it degraded because no one uses LJ to have "discussions" or "conversation". Yet we meet new friends this way...
It's weird.
And an even weirder thing that has popped up just lately is that if I put my computer in "Standby" mode, I lose sound (a restart fixes the problem). But every time I put it on standby, when I come back to check LJ someone has posted a movie or clip or song, and I have to restart the computer to hear it.
LJ, it's a freaky, freaky thing.
