It's very definately a generation thing too. Looking at my f-list, I am not aware of anyone under the age of about 23-24. Facebook has pretty much swiped the custom by so thoroughly penetrating the university market.
AFAIK LJ has not done any market demographic homework, which gobsmacks me as this is like business marketing 101. One of the appeals of LJ is that it is not full of bells and whistles converting everyone into Pavlovian vampires or pirates. It is also a more community orientated and thesauric in nature.
The irony of this is that our generation of LJ users are usually the ones with the money, but it is not offering the quality product or tools, and I fear it will go further down the gimmick route, rather than re-organising and building for a sustainable social and artistic networking tool that places like DeviantArt do so well.
Am tempted to bung the above into one of the LJ Feeds
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Date: 2007-Aug-08, Wednesday 07:08 (UTC)AFAIK LJ has not done any market demographic homework, which gobsmacks me as this is like business marketing 101. One of the appeals of LJ is that it is not full of bells and whistles converting everyone into Pavlovian vampires or pirates. It is also a more community orientated and thesauric in nature.
The irony of this is that our generation of LJ users are usually the ones with the money, but it is not offering the quality product or tools, and I fear it will go further down the gimmick route, rather than re-organising and building for a sustainable social and artistic networking tool that places like DeviantArt do so well.
Am tempted to bung the above into one of the LJ Feeds