No yeah, I think you're dead on the money and I don't mind you talking about it at all. I never even had that good of a time on LJ, I got by in anonymous communities much better because I was always treated as kind of... weird and offputting for my lack of social graces and this was, y'know. Maybe undeserved but certainly true. In that way communities with lower interaction floor like Tumblr that are kind of a big party where anyone can pop into any conversation if they're brave and brazen enough help people like me put myself out there.
But in the absence of an ability to get serious and avoid public emotional closure is beneficial for community health, because it lets people take five and they don't need to feel like they're in the same room with the person who just set them off. Like I think a lot of the current sites lack that extra layer of "here's my friend group that I can error check my behaviour with", rather than going straight to DMs and private personal communication.
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No yeah, I think you're dead on the money and I don't mind you talking about it at all. I never even had that good of a time on LJ, I got by in anonymous communities much better because I was always treated as kind of... weird and offputting for my lack of social graces and this was, y'know. Maybe undeserved but certainly true. In that way communities with lower interaction floor like Tumblr that are kind of a big party where anyone can pop into any conversation if they're brave and brazen enough help people like me put myself out there.
But in the absence of an ability to get serious and avoid public emotional closure is beneficial for community health, because it lets people take five and they don't need to feel like they're in the same room with the person who just set them off. Like I think a lot of the current sites lack that extra layer of "here's my friend group that I can error check my behaviour with", rather than going straight to DMs and private personal communication.