LJ v myspace

[marguerite_krux]

 

LJ intimidates me. 

I have a myspace account because myspace is more egocentric. You blog about the minutiae of your life, who you’re best friends with, who you hate, how mean your parents are, how much uni sucks…I’m on familiar territory there. So myspace is therapeutic, it’s where I can vent and be as unlikable as I want and it doesn’t matter. Who reads myspace blogs anyway, right?

 

Here, otoh. This is the place of creative genius. Photoshop talent. Freakishly awesome icons and wallpapers, I mean:

 

http://dana-cz.livejournal.com/250782.html

 

The Supergirl wallpaper is HOT. It makes me want to cry, but dude, there are  lines like:

‘And then she’d shout down the line, tell me she’s got no more time

Because she’s a supergirl and supergirls don’t cry

And then she’d scream in my face, tell me to leave, leave this place

Because she’s a supergirl and supergirls just fly’

 

When those lines are set to images of Lifeline and Elizabeth sacrificing herself for the good of the team, is it any surprise? I hate angst, it makes me so damn emotional. I don’t even know if those are real lyrics, or a poem, but they fit so well it’s scary.

 

Given myspace’s restrictions on copyrighted material, there’s no way you’d find an equivalent proliferation of talent there as I see on LJ. And it makes me feel like a fake, trying to fit in here with the cool arty types when it’s so not my thing. I would kill to be able to make Photoshop do my bidding, but there aren’t enough hours in the day, you know?

 

The fundamental difference between LJ and myspace is that the latter seems shallow. You can’t really have meaningful conversations on myspace, and it’s really only good for close friends who have things to communicate about, otherwise it’s just a series of random ‘hey, how r u? haven’t seen u lately, hope life’s good’ messages. LJ has many huge all-encompassing themes. Pretty much every page I’ve seen is of a person devoted to one or more tv shows, and the art and fics and vids dedicated to that show.

 

So, while I may be artistically deficient, I can still post fics here and pretend like I am not an imposter, noooo. I’m a tree in a forest, blending in…you can’t spot the difference….other than the lack of ARTWORK, but heyyy...

Comments

[justhere1971.livejournal.com]

LOL you're too funny. I felt intimidated by LJ. Now I am of the mindset that, hey I like this place so I am going to stick around.
So... stick around.

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

Funny, me? *hugs* I'm glad you think so, sometimes I come off shallow or whiny, when it's really that people don't grasp my sardonic wit, my wonderful sense of humor...

Anyway, you and Anuna are the main reason I'm committing to LJ. It's rare to find people with the same passion and focus towards the same obsession and willing to discuss it endlessly. Whatever happens on GW, I'm not losing you guys yet!

[anuna-81.livejournal.com]

Same here. I felt intimidated too. But then i discovered you can have fun talks with people here! It's a LOT of fun, so DO stick around - you have great comments and I LOVE the way you think and discuss things!! Stick around!!!

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

Well, you've given me incentive with the promise to go through the old eps to glee at the Sparkiness all over again! I'm putting pressure on YOU now to get the ball rolling, lol. *rests on laurels*

[sapphs.livejournal.com]

Well, you aren't allowed to leave! *shakes head* And I'm the opposite. I don't like MySpace because it's so impersonal and disorganised, plus I just don't like the layout of everything.

Lj is my honeybun :D

And you're not an imposter at all. I know heaps of people who don't do anything creatively. They just post about whatever they feel like and the get along well!

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

I'll just spend all my time on your journal, replying to random posts then. ;) I could spend hours just admiring the Lisa Edelstein header you have. *jaw drops* Absolutely gorgeous. I love her so much! Damn writers, got my hopes up with eps one and two of the new season, and then she was hardly to be found in subsequent eps. *pouts*

[sapphs.livejournal.com]

The people on my flist are awesome so they wont care if you reply to their comments ^_^

OMG she is SO AWESOME! And I've been disappointed in the lack of Cuddy after the first two eps as well *pouts*

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

I think it's both cool and freaky how I'll return to my main page and find a response already! Here I thought I was the only one semi-permanently plugged into the internet, guess not!

I caught a few minutes of this week's ep [taped it as the parents had work to do so I watched Cold Case- a lot of your friends seem to love Lilly!], when she was talking to Foreman and my heart was in my mouth when he made his ridiculous demands about a raise and a personal assistant. Loser! He lost my respect. She was like, 'That's not unreasonable' and I was screaming 'NO NO DO NOT GIVE IN HE'S NOT EVEN HOUSE!'[and it already irritates me how she rarely wins with him]. Then she reaffirmed my faith in her by being fantastic and dropkicking him back to reality with, 'But no. Shut up, you have no leg to stand on. Lose the ego, Foreman. No one else wants you!' Ahahaha! Yeah, I'm mean. But she told him who was boss without being too snarky.