thinking about things these days

[mhalachai]

I'm watching the implosion of Twitter and can't help but think back to the decimation of LiveJournal, and the fragmentation of fandom social spaces in general.

I don't have any really eloquent thoughts on this one, but maybe it can best be summed up as, it feels like it's getting harder and harder to find, create and sustain community in fandom spaces. I put find first in that list as that feels like the biggest barrier right now - finding where people have scattered off to, and also being able to find new communities when new fandoms pop up.

Isn't that just the paradox, though - the internet is more vast than ever and it's really quite lonely.

Comments

[jebbypal]

Same. Though i wonder how much of that is also a function of different space in life (ie, not in college / grad school) that makes it so much harder to connect in general as well.