LJ vs. Facebook

[sleigh]

I tend to post mostly to LJ, with Facebook automatically picking up my LJ posts as "Notes." I prefer LJ to FB for posting since, well, I'm long-winded -- I suppose it comes from being a novelist. The character restrictions on FB I find too limiting, especially since some subjects demand more than just a surface examination. (It was the even more restrictive character limitations that drove me rather quickly from Twitter -- that and the inanity of most of the tweets I was reading.)

But... I'm noticing an interesting trend and am wondering if other LJ/FB users are noticing the same: I'm getting more responses to my posts from FB than from LJ now. I don't know if it's the 'immediacy' of FB, or that I have a slightly different set of people watching FB rather than LJ. But even my 'friends' on LJ who are also on FB are tending to post more to FB than to LJ.

Anyone else seeing the same tendency?

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[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I use FB for playing scrabble, and to maintain contacts with people who I know from places other than our always-locked LJ and our f-list. I'm still fighting a holding action against having to follow people in two places. It's probably past time to unfriend a zillion people over there again.

Without any career-related need for linkedin, I guess I think of FB more as my personal version of that than another purely social network.

K. [plus, I like the longer response format best]