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.