The real benefits of livejournal, at least for me, is that this service provides a space for me to stretch my creative legs, so to speak. I do have a bit more formal web log site on wordpress, which I don't update often due to the fear of besmirching my creative edge (though I must say it's been besmirched quite enough already). The community-based feature of livejournal, while attractive, isn't something I took time to partake in yet. I feel as if it's the kind of feature that people who already know each other in real life would enjoy, rather than someone like me whose close acquaintances don't use livejournal service (they all seem to use facebook, but I have personal reservations against using that service). Maybe I'll find a club or two that fits my bill, though I haven't been ale to find anything significantly interesting so far.
Writing random things on the net without fear of continuity or any specific repercussion, a sort of personal journal on the net with possibilities of interacting with those who share similar interests, is in the end the best benefit of using this service, and something I believe many of the other more community oriented microblogging services seem to lack.
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Of course, this was written way back in the day when I used livejournal as my blogging platform. I've since then moved onto the blogger.
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