Blogs, livejournal, deadjournal, whatever else...

[Avengardh]

I was wondering who in here "journals" or has an online diary, I did indeed find this forum thanks to an LJ community.

And if you do:

I have found that most people think that receiving many comments in things like such means that people care for them or something, this was bothering me for a while, particularly when people add a "and if my 60+ LJ friends CARED they would comment on my LJ", and I say, does it really matter? O.o?

Anyway, any other astray thoughts or ramblings on the matter are welcome.

~*Aven*~

[Division56]

Mine:

http://division56.blogspot.com/

[shaytana]

I have one, I used it for a few days then forgot about it. They just can't keep my interest. I have never been interested in reading other peoples ramblings either, although I am sure some are interesting, I don't really care enough about perfect strangers to read their diary.

[file cabinet]

I have one, I used it for a few days then forgot about it. They just can't keep my interest. I have never been interested in reading other peoples ramblings either, although I am sure some are interesting, I don't really care enough about perfect strangers to read their diary.

that about sums up my feeling with blogs.

[Hypnos]

http://www.livejournal.com/~smandal/

It's an effective, low-stress way to keep in touch with people, and they you, esp. if you use RSS.

[spirilis]

LJ user, same username as here...
I mainly use it to read other friends' ramblings, I rarely post anything informative.

[Avengardh]

It's an effective, low-stress way to keep in touch with people...

I agree, that's mainly why I keep one...although lately I have been neglecting it, it seems I only write to blow off some steem.

~*Aven*~

[NGene]

Do I have a blog? See the sig! :D

When I started at livejournal, I was really reluctant to do so. A friend of mine had been having her blog for a good amount of time, and basically sat me at her computer, pointed a gun at me and told me to register. (Ok, not quite. =P)

First I used the blog to keep in touch with her, and I mainly just dumped stupid online quiz results there and reported the status of my tuxfiles.org website that had been down for a long time.

At some point I realized a blog was the ideal place for posting my ramblings about various topics. It was my blog, so I could write about anything and not worry about being interesting to anyone else. I didn't have to be. There was, still, the chance that someone would find my writings interesting or even relate to them, in which case I would make new online friends. I have problems opening up to the people I love face-to-face, so they can read my blog if they want to.

So, now I'm completely addicted to the thing. I've also joined a bunch of communities and friended a bunch of people I don't know. If someone writes well, I'm very interested in reading about their life and thoughts, even if I don't know them.

I become an ENFP or ENFJ on the net.

[Division56]

A friend of mine had been having her blog for a good amount of time, and basically sat me at her computer, pointed a gun at me and told me to register.


Same thing with me! A friend pushed me into it. I love it now though...

[antireconciler]

I journal in spiril notebooks. Since November '01 when I started, I've filled 2 spirils. It didn't used to be this way, but I really only use it now as an aid to intuition and as a support for myself when I'm trying to retake my mind when I'm in bad shape mentally. Slowly I'll become more independent of it.

[BritainOphira]

I have a spiral notebook for my poetry. I've discovered that it is much better than just shoving it all in a drawer. (Now I actually know where everything is.)
I also have a blog, but I write in it mainly just so I can go back every so often and check on my mental state and keep up with what was going on in my life. It's rather uninteresting, but here's the link anyway: http://britainophira.tripod.com/sarah

[nobarcode]

I have one, I used it for a few days then forgot about it. They just can't keep my interest. I have never been interested in reading other peoples ramblings either, although I am sure some are interesting, I don't really care enough about perfect strangers to read their diary.
In addition, I've never really wanted a record of what I was thinking. I have a conflict with posting on this board sometimes. I consider this an experiment of a sort in that regard. However, and I know this is harsh and not meant as anything but my own opinion of myself in regards to journal writing, I think it's one of the most self-centered activities on the planet. I'm just not that important/pretentious, if you know what I mean.

[Avengardh]

I have one, I used it for a few days then forgot about it. They just can't keep my interest. I have never been interested in reading other peoples ramblings either, although I am sure some are interesting, I don't really care enough about perfect strangers to read their diary.
In addition, I've never really wanted a record of what I was thinking. I have a conflict with posting on this board sometimes. I consider this an experiment of a sort in that regard. However, and I know this is harsh and not meant as anything but my own opinion of myself in regards to journal writing, I think it's one of the most self-centered activities on the planet. I'm just not that important/pretentious, if you know what I mean.

To each their own ^_^

Opinion, that is.

~*Aven*~

[Melody]

Hmmm. That reminds me of a Method Man lyric.

[shaytana]

I have one, I used it for a few days then forgot about it. They just can't keep my interest. I have never been interested in reading other peoples ramblings either, although I am sure some are interesting, I don't really care enough about perfect strangers to read their diary.
In addition, I've never really wanted a record of what I was thinking. I have a conflict with posting on this board sometimes. I consider this an experiment of a sort in that regard. However, and I know this is harsh and not meant as anything but my own opinion of myself in regards to journal writing, I think it's one of the most self-centered activities on the planet. I'm just not that important/pretentious, if you know what I mean.

I consider this an experiement too, but I am not looking at this as an attempt to keep a record of my thoughts, but to work on getting my thoughts outside of my head. For too many years now I have gotten too used to having 99% of my conversations in my head that I don't even think in words anymore.

[Jezebel]

I have tried having a journal several times, both online and offline. I just can't seem to keep myself interested long enough to sit down and write on a regular basis. But I did save my previous efforts just to remember those periods in my life. I have a thing for keeping any kind of records in my life, which probably explains why I'm such a packrat and have a hard time parting with anything that invokes nostalgia. I'm especially obsessed with taking pictures and saving them.

I agree with the statement that it's a self-centered way to be, but since I'm the center of the universe, that's ok. I don't do it because I think other people care, but because as far as I know this could possibly be the only life I ever get to experience. As I get older I keep changing, and so does the enviroment and people around me. Some things I'll never get back. I think I'm about to get off topic and go into some kind of speech about living in the past, so I'm just going to end this here.

[nobarcode]

I consider this an experiement too, but I am not looking at this as an attempt to keep a record of my thoughts, but to work on getting my thoughts outside of my head. For too many years now I have gotten too used to having 99% of my conversations in my head that I don't even think in words anymore.

Right..., but not a record (reiterating), as in "set in stone" with some sort of pretentious conviction. My comfortability lies in being able to toss ideas around with other INTP's, but without being held accountable. Few people understand arguing about something which they don't believe in for example. It's also comforting to experience some like-mindedness. As for the -your- last part, my best friend growing up and I hardly ever spoke to one another and we were inseperable. There was no need to. He is an INTP as well. We even look alike, most people thought we were twins.

Jezebel

which probably explains why I'm such a packrat and have a hard time parting with anything that invokes nostalgia. I'm especially obsessed with taking pictures and saving them.
Yeah, me too. I make the distinction with the fact that "things" don't represent me. My history is not me in a sense.

[giftedmadness@hotmail.com]

Reading blogs of people you alread know is way more fun than reading strangers. I'm addicted to my ex gf's and she reads mine all the time, but rarely comments on it. The only reason I like comments is so I can be reassured that people are reading it.

[Avengardh]

Oh yeah, I forgot to add my own LJ link ^^'

http://www.livejournal.com/users/carito/

Heh, it's not public, but friends only. But if you comment perhaps I will add you ^_^

~*Aven*~

[int]

Well I blog but's it's not exactly personal. :( Work has me doing a lot of crazy things these days. But I like the Blog technology. :)

[_aquariax]

I have found that most people think that receiving many comments in things like such means that people care for them or something, this was bothering me for a while, particularly when people add a "and if my 60+ LJ friends CARED they would comment on my LJ", and I say, does it really matter? O.o?

I've found myself <s>saying such things</s> thinking such things often when I blog. But after a while, the novelty wore off and I see myself going off somewhere to blog (and hide away from everyone).

I think the only reason that tells me to blog consistently is the love for records. I die for them. I just feel the need to record down everything and then I'll revere in the memories later on. -______-

[file cabinet]

I have found that most people think that receiving many comments in things like such means that people care for them or something, this was bothering me for a while, particularly when people add a "and if my 60+ LJ friends CARED they would comment on my LJ", and I say, does it really matter? O.o?

I've found myself <s>saying such things</s> thinking such things often when I blog. But after a while, the novelty wore off and I see myself going off somewhere to blog (and hide away from everyone).

I think the only reason that tells me to blog consistently is the love for records. I die for them. I just feel the need to record down everything and then I'll revere in the memories later on. -______-

so you're sentimental ?

[MacGuffin]

I have found that most people think that receiving many comments in things like such means that people care for them or something, this was bothering me for a while, particularly when people add a "and if my 60+ LJ friends CARED they would comment on my LJ", and I say, does it really matter? O.o?

I've found myself <s>saying such things</s> thinking such things often when I blog. But after a while, the novelty wore off and I see myself going off somewhere to blog (and hide away from everyone).

I think the only reason that tells me to blog consistently is the love for records. I die for them. I just feel the need to record down everything and then I'll revere in the memories later on. -______-

so you're sentimental ?
I think this is the nostalgia thing that INTPs do.


Because the present is inextricably linked to a sense of the past, INTPs tend to hoard items which help solidify the connection to the past. They find it very difficult to let go of anything they have collected (or indeed created) and which may have a nostalgic meaning.

[Vagabond]

Who said INTPs are not sentimental anyway... try not to detach and tell me then... :D

[file cabinet]

most of my 'connections' to the past are 'fragmented'. I would rather just let it go.

[Birdsnest]

I do blog, and in fact I have more than one blogsite, one is public, one is private for my poetry, its where I rearrange and work on poetry that is in-progress, but nobody can see it.

[Postblank]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/postblank

It's far from a conventional LiveJournal. Whenever I feel like it, I'll log in and just start typing. Whatever I wind up typing by the time I tire of the activity is what gets posted. Since I have no real investments in the realm of emotions and angst, people that don't even know me can be equally amused as those who "do."

[Tatsuboshi]

I use my journal to write about my hobbies and sort out the stuff in my head when I need to. I've found recently that it helps me to think if I write, otherwise I go off on tangent after tangent until I either need to get something else done or fall asleep.

Beware, though... herein lies wierdness.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/tatsuboshi/

[Miss Padfoot]

My LJ... I don't know how to describe it, not because it's wonderfully unique, but because it's pretty nondescript. I seldom write in it unless I get a special "urge" to; I don't update it as a regular-basis thing. That's too much like homework.

http://www.livejournal.com/~miss_padfoot

[Melody]

Blogs are good for specific things.