IMHO, I think the lack of interface/UI being updated also played a major role as well.
I didn't use LJ for interacting with RL friends, but based on anecdotal evidence, it seems that the same is true for many people who used LJ to interact with RL friends.
Hmm, what do you mean by how it deals w/ the signal/noise problem? I think what's going on now is that a lot of the new microblogs are reinventing LJ's wheel(s) [see twitter's lists], and that can be potentially even more trouble. (Well, as well as creating new social media features, such as retweeting/reblogging: now when I use LJ, I feel annoyed I can't 'like' posts).
Also I suspect that advertising is more lucrative when your audience is mainly concentrated in two cities.
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I didn't use LJ for interacting with RL friends, but based on anecdotal evidence, it seems that the same is true for many people who used LJ to interact with RL friends.
Hmm, what do you mean by how it deals w/ the signal/noise problem? I think what's going on now is that a lot of the new microblogs are reinventing LJ's wheel(s) [see twitter's lists], and that can be potentially even more trouble. (Well, as well as creating new social media features, such as retweeting/reblogging: now when I use LJ, I feel annoyed I can't 'like' posts).
Also I suspect that advertising is more lucrative when your audience is mainly concentrated in two cities.