Backup of David's Livejournal

What makes it so hard to quit? Bear in mind, this query comes from someone who has yet to try either Twitter or heroin. I mean, I kinda think of Livejournal as "a community of friends" where I "feel that desire to keep up and to keep them up to date." But I guess it just doesn't have the same short-attention-span appeal to most people as does something like Twitter. People seem to be able to drop LJ without a second thought. Maybe Twitter is popular because Twitter is simplistic. It's just a bunch of soundbites. Or textbites. Even the "tweets" you post which show up at LJ are often, to me at any rate, nearly meaningless due to lack of context. I guess I'm a dinosaur, stuck back in the Two-Or-More Complete Sentences age. Not to disparage your pithy one-liners, but I don't know that I'd have as deep an appreciation for your intelligence, wit, or excellent taste in music videos featuring bikini-clad Asian girls playing bongo drums if I knew you only through your "tweets." Anyway, people seem to be able to abandon LJ for Twitter; heck, people are even jumping ship on MySpace, which used to be the o-my-gawd-gotta-have-it online thing. Twitter's probably a fad. Tweeting about twittering is a self-absorbed fad-within-a-fad. People will drop Twitter when the Next Big Thing comes along. Or the next Little Thing. Something even more terse, and less meaningful. Related question re Twitter "community of friends." Unless they're people you already know IRL, how can your Twitter community become "friends?" I mean, how do you get to know somebody through sentence fragments? I suppose, over time, you could piece a profile together. But it would take years of tweets to add up to "Pastilla and the Bear." Mr. Blume's world comes to life through on-line conversations... even if they're about Morning Musume or which Godzilla movies he's introducing to his kids. A 'tweet' of "Kids watching Tokyo SOS" doesn't really offer the same insight into who dblume actually is like even a short LJ story about selecting DVDs for a weekend family getaway. Maybe I should give Twitter a try. I haven't had much to say lately anyway, and my attention span is already becoming fragmented, so it might be my cup of tea. But really, I don't have time for another internet Thing, what with my duties as a Pinky-Street-dot-com moderator and all. Heck, I haven't even checked SparkleSystemSix in a blue moon. So, like... blog somethin', will ya?