Lj and "Community"
Jan. 17th, 2005 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matilda36I am relatively new to the whole Live Journal thing, but there are a few things I have picked up that leave me a little puzzled.
When I got myself a Lj, I did it because I wanted to go back to write and to keep a journal, practice that has always helped me in difficult moments in the past, and I thought that having an Internet one would be an incentive for me to write more and better. It actually has been good for this. I never thought that Lj was a way to meet people on the net, or to showcase yourself, even less a "community".
I found the concept of journal and that of community somehow mutually exclusive. A journal is something deeply intimate, while community is about sharing. Then I discovered that for a good number of people describe Live journal as a "Community". I like the communities on Live journal and I monitor quite a few of them, but I do not feel that only because I have a Lj I am part of a community.
Oh well, I guess this post will not help my already inexistent Flist. But it is something that puzzles me.
When I got myself a Lj, I did it because I wanted to go back to write and to keep a journal, practice that has always helped me in difficult moments in the past, and I thought that having an Internet one would be an incentive for me to write more and better. It actually has been good for this. I never thought that Lj was a way to meet people on the net, or to showcase yourself, even less a "community".
I found the concept of journal and that of community somehow mutually exclusive. A journal is something deeply intimate, while community is about sharing. Then I discovered that for a good number of people describe Live journal as a "Community". I like the communities on Live journal and I monitor quite a few of them, but I do not feel that only because I have a Lj I am part of a community.
Oh well, I guess this post will not help my already inexistent Flist. But it is something that puzzles me.
