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Apr. 9th, 2017 03:43 pmLike many, I am making the move from Livejournal to Dreamwidth. It was perhaps a long-time coming, but the site isn't what it once was, both with regards to its user terms as well as the overall feel of community. So many had already left and now more were doing the same, and I knew my time there was limited.
I first joined LJ because my best friend was on it and using it for role-playing, and they wanted me to be able to read the rpg posts because we were both story-tellers and readers. But it didn't stay that way, a place where I was but the observer of others.
It became a home for me online, a place where I could control who saw what, so I could feel comfortable sharing things there that I'd be hesitant to share elsewhere, where the options were making the platform totally private or totally public. But I could also shares things there that were hard to talk about "in real life". I've always been an introvert, but online, I used to be very shy, too, and wary of saying anything personal. When I first started posting there, it was surface sharing, things about my days, school and the like. I was an undergraduate, a freshman at that, and it was the friends I made online (one in particular) who helped me open up on LJ and begin to find my voice.
I'm still an introvert, but some of the shyness melted away. I can speak up more about how I'm feeling and what I want, and it was that community which helped me get there.
But people grow, things change, and we move on and forward.
Like many, I can be found in numerous places online, going by many names. I have a writing/hobbies blog and an editing blog on blogspot, I'm on twitter, tumblr, facebook and instagram. I am looking to make DW my main blogging platform.
Expect to do lists, analytical rants about TV and comic books and movies, the occasional art or craft post, and a look into the processes of job-hunting, writing books, and editing.
I'm Sabrina. Nice to meet you.
I first joined LJ because my best friend was on it and using it for role-playing, and they wanted me to be able to read the rpg posts because we were both story-tellers and readers. But it didn't stay that way, a place where I was but the observer of others.
It became a home for me online, a place where I could control who saw what, so I could feel comfortable sharing things there that I'd be hesitant to share elsewhere, where the options were making the platform totally private or totally public. But I could also shares things there that were hard to talk about "in real life". I've always been an introvert, but online, I used to be very shy, too, and wary of saying anything personal. When I first started posting there, it was surface sharing, things about my days, school and the like. I was an undergraduate, a freshman at that, and it was the friends I made online (one in particular) who helped me open up on LJ and begin to find my voice.
I'm still an introvert, but some of the shyness melted away. I can speak up more about how I'm feeling and what I want, and it was that community which helped me get there.
But people grow, things change, and we move on and forward.
Like many, I can be found in numerous places online, going by many names. I have a writing/hobbies blog and an editing blog on blogspot, I'm on twitter, tumblr, facebook and instagram. I am looking to make DW my main blogging platform.
Expect to do lists, analytical rants about TV and comic books and movies, the occasional art or craft post, and a look into the processes of job-hunting, writing books, and editing.
I'm Sabrina. Nice to meet you.