Granted that Facebook has taken away a good number of people who weren't really interested in LJ as a blogging site, but mostly as a social networking site, a place for keeping up with friends and relatives, I suspect that what you and I are seeing isn't so much LJ dying as it is the natural life-cycle of our respective F-lists.
If it's true that the average LJ user is a teenage girl, it makes sense that most people who come here aren't going to stick around all that long. Adolescence is a time of experimentation and most experiments 'fail', in the sense that they don't prove to be a permanent interest.
Since the fall-off in interest tends to be gradual, most people don't delete their accounts, but simply let them fall dormant.
I suppose the rational response — if we're concerned about the number of readers we have — would be to regularly post to a few add-me communities, so that we keep new blood a-comin'.
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dancing_serpent
I don't think it's dying
Date: 2010-08-10 03:51 pm (UTC)If it's true that the average LJ user is a teenage girl, it makes sense that most people who come here aren't going to stick around all that long. Adolescence is a time of experimentation and most experiments 'fail', in the sense that they don't prove to be a permanent interest.
Since the fall-off in interest tends to be gradual, most people don't delete their accounts, but simply let them fall dormant.
I suppose the rational response — if we're concerned about the number of readers we have — would be to regularly post to a few add-me communities, so that we keep new blood a-comin'.