Wow. Didn't expect that much of a feedback to the blog to lj thing, but thank you everyone for commenting. Also, as the most important reason seem to be that lj is convenient and easy to use ('cos we are all such lazy arses) you guys don't need to comment back on my comments. 'Cos you know that sort of defeat the whole purpose of having it easy and convenient and not feeling pressured in the first place ^__^

Once again, thanks guys. I really do find this whoe subject interesting. If I was actually studying popular culture I so would try and write a thesis on blog culture. It's fascinating.

I abandoned my blog at pitas and moved to lj for many reasons but mainly because I was tired with all the things that went with keeping a blog. There seemed to be a constant pressure to keep writing in it, to keep on changing the layout and to keep on adding people to my blog links b'cos they linked me for one reason or another. All of it was just getting to me, and perhaps it was tempered with a lots of other things that was happening at the same time but it felt like I was in a very public sphere being scrutinised at every moment by too many people I didn't know. But perhaps the most annoying thing was that I felt like I was getting dragged into fandom even when I wasn't participating in it.

So I got up and left and after a three months break from blogging I got myself an account at lj and haven't looked back. Hell, I'm still trying to remember how so many RL people ended knowing my url anyways. But that's not the point, the point is I like lj much more, I feel safer, that only the people I want to read my journal are reading it.

This might be a very stupid and wrong assumption but it is the way I feel. I'm more relaxed and having much more fun keeping this journal than I did when I was keeping a blog at pitas. Maybe I've grown, maybe I've gotten a thicker skin, or maybe it's just that I no longer speak of the really personal things anymore, which ever, keeping an lj doesn't feel like an obligation that make me tired all the time anymore.

Beside being fun and relaxing, there seem to be less politics attached to keeping an lj. I know of the fiasco with the whole 'friending' thing but coming from keeping a blog. the pressure to friend people seem like child's play in comparison to linking people. I can't explain this very well, as I'm still trying to figure this out as well, but there is less pressure, at least for me, and all the irritation that comes with having an lj (down time, friending etc.) really does seem quite small in relation to blogs.

Mind you, this is all subjective, and if nothing else I know I might be over thinking this. People might have moved just because they were bored with blogger ^^;; But whichever, I'm rather curious as to why quite a few of you abandoned your blogs at blogger, pitas, or whatever other blogging server you were using and moved to lj? Some of you even did it without bothering to tell anyone, while others still keep an lj and a blog. Just what attracted you to lj, and what made you leave your blogs? And for those of you who keep two journals, how the hell do you have the time?