Of greetings

[applespice]

Hello, DreamWidth!

Finally, I am here. Now the question remains - what shall I do with this space? I want to make it something different. I've already got my LiveJournal for regular old day-to-day stuff, and ostensibly I have a blog on Blogger (how repetitive) for all my nerdy needs. Unfortunately, I do not often use the Blogger blog, so perhaps I should transfer all of my book reviews and fandomish things here? Sometimes I think that I need some kind of tangible (well, tangible-ish) community to keep posting. Otherwise it feels a bit like shouting into the dark.

Comments

[eponymous]

Welcome!

Right now, I'm using my DW as a public journal/blog--something that I haven't had in a very long time, and sometimes miss. Also, I'm very interested in checking out a lot of the communities right now. Because this is a very new service, there's a lot of interest in community-building it seems. And that's something nice to have.

But, I do agree with you on the needing community to motivate posting. I post because I'm looking for feedback and interaction and community--if I wasn't, then I'd stick to a paper journal!

[applespice]

I definitely like the idea of having a public blog again - I like to share my thoughts openly, but my LJ has been closed for awhile now (since certain RL people started sniffing around). Fannish pursuits aren't likely to get me into trouble with work or people I know outside the internet, so I think that may be the route I follow here.

The community thing is so much of what I love about LJ, but I think that DW has the potential to be even better - at least now, in the early stages, when it's rather small and most people seem to be on the same wavelength blogwise.

[being_the_moon]

I think this site has more potential to build community than previous lj clones, but only time will tell if it really has the potential to be a replacement.

[applespice]

I think so, too, especially given the fan-friendly nature of the site. We're all about community, we types!