That's actually really interesting - I don't really know much about social media except how to use various bits of it, so that impromptu lecture was all new and good info for me.
It makes sense, though - it's why it's hard to get away from LJ, even with all the fuckery, because it's so difficult going through the friend-making process on a new site when you have 300+ friends on LJ, many of whom haven't switched/won't switch/won't switch until everyone else switches/etc. Also, I don't think they were intending to try and be like Facebook, just that it had a Facebooky sort of feel to it - which again makes sense, considering what you said about the social media underpinnings.
What I don't understand, though, is if they are trying to make the commenting function better, why would they do away with subject lines - those are important! - and mess with the way the threading works? Those were two of the things that were best about the old way of doing comments!
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It makes sense, though - it's why it's hard to get away from LJ, even with all the fuckery, because it's so difficult going through the friend-making process on a new site when you have 300+ friends on LJ, many of whom haven't switched/won't switch/won't switch until everyone else switches/etc. Also, I don't think they were intending to try and be like Facebook, just that it had a Facebooky sort of feel to it - which again makes sense, considering what you said about the social media underpinnings.
What I don't understand, though, is if they are trying to make the commenting function better, why would they do away with subject lines - those are important! - and mess with the way the threading works? Those were two of the things that were best about the old way of doing comments!