merchimerch | (no subject)

I'm having one of those "does anyone even read this?" kind of moments. I'm wondering about the nature of lj communication - it all seems so one way. By reading peoples ljs I'm sucking up all their one way communication, and people (I think) do the same for me, but does it ever really turn into a dialogue in the way it would if I had a conversation with them? I wonder do I converse less with my friends now because I read their ljs? Of course with some people even having a regular conversation is like have side by side one way communication...anyway, I suppose the point of my lj is not to dialogue with people - at the moment it is to try and record some of my fieldwork year incase my hard drive gets wiped before I get home.

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For me, lj is like a place to write postcards to your friends. If there is too much text in one entry, I admit that I don't read them as much as it hurts my eyes. I like lj cuts. Mostly I just skim over your fieldwork entries and read the rest. But IM or email is definitely more direct for me. But I have some friends for whom LJ is the best way to get a hold of them. *shrug*

That and I've been incredibly busy with school - I just don't read everything my friends post. But just know that I'm thinking about you and am looking forward to seeing you when you get back to the States.