Disturbing News About LJ

[mmerriam]

http://valleywag.gawker.com/5124184/the-russian-bear-slashes-a-social-network

ETA: Valley Wag has some numbers wrong. Look down in the comment thread for more information that stillnotbored rustled up.

ETA2 by way of rm, more news here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10132684-36.html

Comments

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

If they shut this place down I'm going to be so very very pissed. Blogger sucks, you have no options to shut out anyone and face book is set up for children.

Gah. I'm paid up for a couple years.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

A less grim viewpoint.

http://community.livejournal.com/no_lj_ads/83519.html

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Good information in these posts, thanks for sharing them.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm learning it's often what you make of sites like Facebook and Blogger. Live Journal is better, but there are ways to make Facebook more usable for adults. It just takes a while.

Still, Facebook does seem to be more about playing games and sending virtual gifts than anything else. And it's quite hard to make connections on Blogger.

[rhfay.livejournal.com]

I forgot I was logged out when I posted the above reply. I hate when that happens.