Despite having my facebook account "locked" so that only people I have friended can see it, I still only post things that I would not mind my boss (if I had one - let's be hopeful!) seeing. Got burnt pretty bad once on LJ - learned my lesson - and I thought I was being pretty careful even then. As for making it so that only certain friends can see stuff on facebook, I only friend people who I don't mind seeing my posts. You can unfriend people, too, and they will not be notified of this, which is very nice to avoid teh dramuh (I'd friended some classmates in a fit of nostalgia, then later unfriended a few when I remembered why I never hung out with them back in school, lol). You can make friends groups, but I'm not yet sure of the purpose of this - I don't think you can post stuff JUST to certain friends groups. (I admit I'm still learning all the bells and whistles there.)
Definitely there are differences between LJ and FB. At the moment, FB is suiting my needs/wants more because I can post little snippets of my day-to-day life, like what books and movies I'm obsessed with, mundane things I'm doing, photos, etc - and I'm back in contact with friends and family members I haven't spoken to in 20 years in some cases, which is cool. I know many more of my FB friends IRL than I do my LJ friends.
LJ is better if I want to write whole paragraphs, wax poetic, go into long narratives about my day, etc. I find I'm less likely to whine (lol) on FB than LJ, because the limited space of status updates on FB makes me want to stay positive/interesting. On LJ, otoh, I am free to whine at length. ;) Not a good thing, for me personally. Actually, I think my LJ posts are going to improve, quality-wise, now that I have a FB account, because I'm more likely to post mundane, day-to-day stuff on FB and use LJ less often but with better quality posts - like my poetry and the best of my photography.
Of course, ymmv. This is just my own experience of the two sites.
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timeasmymeasure
Facebook v. LiveJournal
Date: 2009-01-06 12:30 am (UTC)Definitely there are differences between LJ and FB. At the moment, FB is suiting my needs/wants more because I can post little snippets of my day-to-day life, like what books and movies I'm obsessed with, mundane things I'm doing, photos, etc - and I'm back in contact with friends and family members I haven't spoken to in 20 years in some cases, which is cool. I know many more of my FB friends IRL than I do my LJ friends.
LJ is better if I want to write whole paragraphs, wax poetic, go into long narratives about my day, etc. I find I'm less likely to whine (lol) on FB than LJ, because the limited space of status updates on FB makes me want to stay positive/interesting. On LJ, otoh, I am free to whine at length. ;) Not a good thing, for me personally. Actually, I think my LJ posts are going to improve, quality-wise, now that I have a FB account, because I'm more likely to post mundane, day-to-day stuff on FB and use LJ less often but with better quality posts - like my poetry and the best of my photography.
Of course, ymmv. This is just my own experience of the two sites.