I agree with this. Not only not taken seriously as either, but didn't know what it wanted to be and didn't know how to sell itself, at all.
Lots of my original RL friends that I signed up for LJ for are now exclusively using Facebook--every so often one of them writes a "haven't updated for a year now" post but that's about it.
Combine that with Twitter, which appears to be helping deal with the signal/noise problem of blogging generally fairly well, and you have an LJ in trouble.
In Russia, they've got good marketing, know what they're doing and who their target audience is and, oh, the President has an LJ, that probably brings in a few more eyeballs.
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Date: 2009-11-09 09:25 am (UTC)Lots of my original RL friends that I signed up for LJ for are now exclusively using Facebook--every so often one of them writes a "haven't updated for a year now" post but that's about it.
Combine that with Twitter, which appears to be helping deal with the signal/noise problem of blogging generally fairly well, and you have an LJ in trouble.
In Russia, they've got good marketing, know what they're doing and who their target audience is and, oh, the President has an LJ, that probably brings in a few more eyeballs.