For those of you leaving LJ.....

[poltr1]

It seems that less and less people are on LiveJournal these days, leaving it for the so-called greener pastures of Facebook, Twitter, Google+, et al.

Are blogs passe? To be replaced with quick "sound bites" of a one-sentence or 140-character post?

I know Facebook has a Notes feature. But I hardly use it. Instead, my long, thought-out posts go here on LJ. But I'll admit, most of my recent posts have been on Facebook.

So, what can an LJ user do to preserve his or her posts? infobits posed this question a few days ago.

I know of two such programs, and have used them. It's probably time for me to get current.

LJBook can create a PDF file of your posts, from a specified range of dates to the entire journal, if you so desire.
http://www.ljbook.com/

LJArchive enables you to store an offline copy of your journal for reference and posterity.
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ljarchive

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Much of the value of any social networking site lies in the number of your friends who are on it. People flocked to LJ when all their friends got on it. With fewer people on it, its value to the remaining users is less.

A lot of people seem to use Facebook. I won't use FB except as a last resort. I'm leery of their repeated user-unfriendly policy revisions. I was hoping Google+ would fix a lot of the reasons I don't use FB, but it turns out that they have worse problems, as evidenced by their "Real names only" policy.

LJ has its problems but at least it's a known quantity.

[katyhh.livejournal.com]

I have used ljarchive off and on, unfortunately, it is currently not working since Livejournal's latest changes have changed the code so much. So, no - sadly, ljarchive does not currently store an offline copy of the journal anymore.
Also, the Dreamwidth import seems to be broken for the same reasons. LJ did a thorough job :/
Must try ljbook. I am not eager to leave, but I like to save my stuff.

[catalana.livejournal.com]

I don't like FB or twitter - they seem to be too short for my tastes. I like actual paragraphs and stuff.

[quadrivium.livejournal.com]

I'm not leaving live journal until I'm made to. I like its format too much. Also, Facebook's exceptional popularity means that fewer of the people local to me seem interested in my live journal account which is all to the good in my opinion. (I live in a small conservative town.) I'm still careful what I post in live journal, but I do like the conversations here more.

Facebook? UGH.

[urban-terrorist.livejournal.com]

Actually Jim most of my stuff goes on my main blog at http://madhatter.ca which has hit about 1,000,000 words. I'm a talkative guy, and I've had articles translated into Russian, Spanish, and I think the third one was Greek.

Livejournal is for personal stuff.

My blog is more political/business related. I use both.

Facebook I would quite happily dump, but it's my only way to keep on touch with certain people.

Oh well...

Wayne

Re: Facebook? UGH.

[poltr1]

I used to have my own website, until the ISP I was with changed hands and the new ownership had forgotten that I ever existed. And I haven't come up with the dough for a new website and domain name. Maybe someday.....

I resisted signing on to Facebook until August of '09, when I had several outstanding invites from several friends. And I finally broke down and started my account there.

Yeah, some of Facebook's so-called features and policies drive me nuts. Like rolling out new changes unannounced and undocumented. Or not offering a way to edit posts. And their cavalier attitude towards user security, making "Facebook security" an oxymoron.

Ah well. With Facebook, you get what you pay for.

Facebook=Oxymoron

[urban-terrorist.livejournal.com]

You got that right.

But since I'm now trying to start a publishing company, and I'm playing with politics I have to be public. So my Facebook settings let nearly anyone look at me.

Oh well...

PS: I have extra bandwidth...

[kliklikitty.livejournal.com]

I plan to keep LJ for as long as I can. Yes, I use FB a lot, but for the the things that really matter to me, I prefer LJ where I know that only the people I actually wish to will be able see what is going on in my heart and soul.

[kliklikitty.livejournal.com]

I do however, make a habit of baking up everything I want to save from both LJ & FB onto my hard drive and then to disk