That's a really interesting point. Hmmm. I'm reading through the posts I missed last night, so I'm sure I'll come across it here shortly.
Someone in the news post (somewhere in the 110s? I read it last evening) basically said that it's likely TPTB at LJ just looked at the number of new users they'd get through hooking up with Facebook (and Twitter, though I think to a lesser extent) and decided that the number of new users they'll gain was going to be higher than the number they lost. They knew that fandom users and really anyone who posts sensitive information in their journals would be alienated and they just didn't care. They're seeing dollar signs (or, in this case, rubles).
Hey, that's fine for them. But I'm not going to stick around and see LJ become one big Facebook-driven ONTD. I like Facebook, but it has its place, and that's far away from my fandom life and the ranting I do in my journal.
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Someone in the news post (somewhere in the 110s? I read it last evening) basically said that it's likely TPTB at LJ just looked at the number of new users they'd get through hooking up with Facebook (and Twitter, though I think to a lesser extent) and decided that the number of new users they'll gain was going to be higher than the number they lost. They knew that fandom users and really anyone who posts sensitive information in their journals would be alienated and they just didn't care. They're seeing dollar signs (or, in this case, rubles).
Hey, that's fine for them. But I'm not going to stick around and see LJ become one big Facebook-driven ONTD. I like Facebook, but it has its place, and that's far away from my fandom life and the ranting I do in my journal.