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Date: 2022-07-05 09:01 pm (UTC)I've always found Facebook to be centripetal in nature -- facing and pushing inward, where I connected with people I already know from family, school, work, or certain other social structures.
Conversely, I've always found LiveJournal to be centrifugal -- facing and pushing outward, where I connected with people who were connected to the people I knew, independent of existing social structures.
I don't really know whether that's just me, or whether that's a side effect of my having joined Facebook when it was still largely about (re)connecting with people you knew from high school and posting pictures of what you were having for dinner.
I tried to do a couple of longer-form posts on Facebook years back and got near-zero engagement from most of them, which made me sad. But it also made me realize that the majority of people I knew from HS weren't interested in anything long-form (except perhaps drinking) and a key part of LJ was its element of self-selection. In my mind, people created LJ accounts because they had something they wanted to say -- if only to themselves. People created FB accounts because they wanted to be heard.
I'd thought about restarting my journal, on LiveJournal, since that's where all my content is (including some technical posts on obsolete video tech that appear to still be fairly well page-ranked by Google and I'd rather not lose that) but Russia's invasion of Ukraine put that on pause. I'm still not sure what I want to do on that front, but I did create an account here on DreamWidth today just so I could post this reply.