lol…I think it’s funny that you’re using your ‘cute voice’…

…or maybe it’s just because it’s late/early….I dunno, it doesn’t sound normal….but then I thought that about Kat’s voice on one of the other vids too

I think that I have been using “blogs” since early 2000 as well, They sure were different, i used diaryland for awhile, but i don’t even remember what my user name was, and when you were talking about everything you lost on diary x, i started to feel a little nostalgic myself. I have always been on LJ, i had a previous account before i got gardenstomp, i was dilaudid for at least four years, and i think that was the main blog that i felt like “home” in, it was the most honest and personal thing i have ever put up online, and i sometimes miss that a lot.

I’ve always felt weird about online journals, blogs, whatever you call them of your choice. I do like the idea of journals being completely personal thoughts and words, but I think it’s funny when people get pissed off when you don’t comment… but it’s like, well why do you write the stuff in your journal? Are you writing for you? Or are you writing for the mass public? I’ve been “blogging” since I was thirteen, or even younger. I’ve had numerous names on numerous different accounts, but by far I am still a Livejournal lady. I will LJ until I die most likely. That, or “grow up.” I’m now 21 so I’ve been on the webs for quite some time. Anywho, I’d leave you a more in-depth post, but I just got home from work and dinner and then going out with friends, so I’m afraid I need to get into bed. But thank you for the video blog… made my evening.

I’ve always been a livejournal user, and last month my LJ turned 3 years old.
After I watched your video I dug through my archives and read every post I’ve ever made.
I didn’t know what to expect, but I’m so glad I did it.
I discovered that tomorrow will be 3 years from the night of my first kiss. I sat there and cried when I read that post - I didn’t mention it, but I remember exactly how I felt when I wrote it. Then read my later posts from when we broke up. And then I cried and cried when I realized how far me and the little boy I kissed in the cinema while watching Princess Diaries have come. He’s now a grown up, confident guy, with a fantastic girlfriend who makes him happy. And he’s one of my best friends in the whole world.

Thank you so much Sara

Firstly, and most importantly, I love and miss you like crazy.

Secondly, in response, you hooked me on online journaling, way back when. What was it, eight years ago now? Seven? Something like that. And I started on diaryland, where I went through a number of usernames and used them all on and off for a few years before we found diary-x.

The ability to lock specific entries helped me fall in love with D-X, and though I went through a number of usernames there as well the changes were fewer. I was devastated when all those years of my life fell into the nothingness of a crashed server, though. It made me hesitant to even start over.

I started using livejournal when I was in Thailand because it was the journaling site of choice with the other exchanges, which worked for me. I think, though, anewface is the longest online journal I’ve kept though, and aside from CC it has the most entries.

Crimson Chronicles was my own personal site, as you know. >_>
But it never quite became the home that TT has been for you. I want to start over though. I just get so frustrated with the coding and whatnot that I get more upset than relieved to finally put an entry to the page.

And yeah, that’s about it. :)

I got my first LiveJournal account when I was about 16, I think. God, a very long time ago, and I’ve only just created my new one in May this year, because I didn’t feel like my adolescent blog correctly represented my early 20’s self. I still don’t really update my livejournal properly or accurately because I feel this intense lack of ownership over it. Its not ‘mine’. I would love to create something that was, but I just don’t have the knowledge, time or resources really.

I was never quite as intense about journalling for myself, I don’t think, but I always wanted to be. Again, an ownership thing. I went on livejournal as a silly sixteen year old spazzing out about bands and boys and trawled various communities soaking up the atmosphere of people who felt the same as i did about things i loved. I guess that kept going a little (to my own shame, ha) later in life, but I am fairly desperate to have something of my own, that I would be proud for my friends and family to see. Myspace/facebook doesn’t count! x em

What a cool way to post your thoughts. It feels like you’re talking to me!

To answer you questions though, I started using Diaryland in 2002. I think I was lirael or something…as you talked a huge knot was forming in my stomach because I have no idea if that diary is accessible still, particularly being unsure of the login! I stayed there for years, LiveJournal only starting in something like 2006. I copied/pasted entries onto LiveJournal when I was bored but…sort of forgot about it. And now I’m fretting as I’m too nervous to check and see if it’s still there, well, in case it’s not! There’s a lot I’d like to remember from those years. Those were good years in my life. A lot of growing, experiences, and positive events and people that I’ve likely forgotten.