From the Mind of Trevor Stone

Nope, I'm saying quite the opposite. There has been a sharp increase in the noise on LJ, at least in my friends-space. Nowadays, most of the posts I skim -- I can hardly say read any more -- on LJ tend to be long, detailed descriptions about whatever minor drama is going on in people lives. The trouble is, that drama never seems to stop!

So, I end up skimming pages of entries, looking for meaningful entries like a friend's recent seizure. And increasingly, I find that I can be away for long periods of time and not miss anything.

Facebook, on the other hand, has a few things going for it:
1) Status updates are constrained to be short, so the process of catching up is much quicker
2) Its integrated services, like pictures with the ability to tag users, allow users to connect in a variety of ways.

In order to effectively use LJ, I think it takes a time commitment that I'm increasingly reticent to make.