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According to MySpace, everyone I went to high school with is straight. How statistically improbable is that? I just found it interesting that even those people who listed themselves as married or partnered and not interested in dating still felt the need to proclaim their heterosexuality rather than leave it as "no answer". Then again, I listed my orientation...but that has more to do with my own feelings about what it means to be able to "pass," which is a whole 'nother blog post.
MySpace is weird. It's like Friendster meets Livejournal, only with a busier layout than your average Geocities page. The searching functions are fairly advanced, but ultimately, it's just another web networking tool. I can't exist in that many places online at once. I'd go crazy. I already have this blog and another couple of special interest communities where I'm active, plus remnants of me floating about from other message boards and communities long gone. Interesting to poke about the MySpace profiles, though; it's also interesting to contemplate how many people have no online identity at all. You can't mirror your real life networks online; neither can you know everyone in person that you know online. It's a Venn issue.
Anyhow, speaking of online networking tools, I think I'm going to try to migrate this blog back to LiveJournal. I miss varying privacy levels for entries. I miss logically-organized past-entry navigation. I miss threaded commenting. And they've recently instituted tagging, which Blogger does not offer, and I really want that - it would allow me to categorize entries by whether they're about politics, or the baby, or family, or any of the other things I blog about here. It would be so great to click a tag and be able to find all the entries with poems in them, for example. The switch will mean that non-LiveJournal users have to sign comments with their names (it designates people without an account as "anonymous," which is part of the reason I stopped using it), but I think it's worth it.
The migration probably won't happen for a few eons, given how much free time I've got lately, but when it does I'll let everyone know so you can change RSS feeds and all that other good stuff. You'll still be able to read it off this page - you won't have to go to the LiveJournal site - it will just be a slightly different (and better) engine running it.
MySpace is weird. It's like Friendster meets Livejournal, only with a busier layout than your average Geocities page. The searching functions are fairly advanced, but ultimately, it's just another web networking tool. I can't exist in that many places online at once. I'd go crazy. I already have this blog and another couple of special interest communities where I'm active, plus remnants of me floating about from other message boards and communities long gone. Interesting to poke about the MySpace profiles, though; it's also interesting to contemplate how many people have no online identity at all. You can't mirror your real life networks online; neither can you know everyone in person that you know online. It's a Venn issue.
Anyhow, speaking of online networking tools, I think I'm going to try to migrate this blog back to LiveJournal. I miss varying privacy levels for entries. I miss logically-organized past-entry navigation. I miss threaded commenting. And they've recently instituted tagging, which Blogger does not offer, and I really want that - it would allow me to categorize entries by whether they're about politics, or the baby, or family, or any of the other things I blog about here. It would be so great to click a tag and be able to find all the entries with poems in them, for example. The switch will mean that non-LiveJournal users have to sign comments with their names (it designates people without an account as "anonymous," which is part of the reason I stopped using it), but I think it's worth it.
The migration probably won't happen for a few eons, given how much free time I've got lately, but when it does I'll let everyone know so you can change RSS feeds and all that other good stuff. You'll still be able to read it off this page - you won't have to go to the LiveJournal site - it will just be a slightly different (and better) engine running it.
posted by The Stute Fish at 08:51
1 Comments:
I am thinking about a migration myself...from myspace to livejournal. Though blogger is probably the place for me...livejournal seems too geeky. But whatever, I've already got an account there.
http://petesloth.livejournal.com
friend me, or whatever LJ types do.
-p.
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