A sudden realisation about Facebook and Livejournal

[andrewducker]

If I have a sentence pop into my head and I put it on Facebook then it remains a sentence. If I have a sentence pop into my head and start writing it on Livejournal then nine times out of ten it turns into a post.

However, when I only have a sentence in my head, it seems silly to write a one-sentence post, and so I write it on Facebook.

That, combined with the fact that writing a couple of sentences on the phone is about all I can be bothered with (and the phone is what I tend to have in my hand when I'm bored between places) means that Facebook gets all the love.

And so I am going to try an experiment. The next few times a sentence pops into my head I shall open up Semagic (or the update page) and write it down there. And then I shall see if it sprouts into a post, or remains a single sentence.

Comments

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

Twitter is like Facebook in this, only more so.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Yay.

[fub.livejournal.com]

There is no real reason why a post on LJ should be long. A single-sentence post can be as fine as a lengthy one!

[andrewducker]

Very true. I think there was a phase where people complained about tiny status updates on LJ, but with the dearth of updates nowadays one-liners might be more acceptable :->

[fub.livejournal.com]

I put people on my friends list because they have interesting things to say. And interest is not a function of the length of the entry -- in fact, a one-liner can be more interesting than a whole essay.

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

I chuck that kind of thing into LJ.

But then again, I don't use Facebook :)

[avatar.livejournal.com]

I had this exact same thought a while ago (I can't find the post I made about it), and I completely forgot about the plan to do posts on LJ.

Because then I'd be depriving Facebook!