glowingfish

I really prefer the longer form here, because it gives readers/friends a chance to slow down and think, and to respond thoughtfully, and the connections are meaningful. I suppose some people do a long Facebook post - but a lot of the forwarded/screenshot posts I see are like "OMG THIS OUTRAGEOUS THING!!!*emojis*" and a lot of like-minded one- or two-word comments below. And I've been on Instagram since it was not so horrible (now it is), and the interactions there are so ephemeral, like a couple of words and then it's all back in the void. Here, it's TEXT, and the comments are whole conversations. Like LJ was, back in aughts.