Well, it's all a bummer.

LJ is still down, and DW is loading slowly, and G+ is still really weird. I'm enjoying twitter, which is odd, because I originally thought it would be just silly grandstanding. Some of it is, but I am learning of events much more quickly there than through standard news venues, so that's a plus. I am also able to follow some celebrities, which is, well, weird. And interesting. But weird.

I have previously resisted cross-posting from LJ to DW or DW to LJ or whatever because I am not fond of reading the same post across several platforms. It also splits up the comments, which is undesirable, since then one can't just skim past the posts one has already seen elsewhere.

The lure of housing one's entire online existance in one place, which is what G+ would like us all to do, is very strong, but one that I am going to resist. Yes, right now G+ seems resistant to these denial of service attacks, but you know: once we all migrate, and there is nothing else of similar importance worth attacking, those tiresome children will turn their attention to G+.

Considering all the fooforah about "real names" and deleting accounts without accountability, I don't trust G+ to be a benign servant, and so I will continue to access my online life through several platforms. There's a little bit of redundancy, but I think it is worth the extra time needed to navigate the redundancy.

You know what? I may cross post this to G+. :)

Well, that's a cross post.

LJ is still down, and DW is loading slowly, and G+ is still really weird. I'm enjoying twitter, which is odd, because I originally thought it would be just silly grandstanding. Some of it is, but I am learning of events much more quickly there than through standard news venues, so that's a plus. I am also able to follow some celebrities, which is, well, weird. And interesting. But weird.

I have previously resisted cross-posting from LJ to DW or DW to LJ or whatever because I am not fond of reading the same post across several platforms. It also splits up the comments, which is undesirable, since then one can't just skim past the posts one has already seen elsewhere.

The lure of housing one's entire online existance in one place, which is what G+ would like us all to do, is very strong, but one that I am going to resist. Yes, right now G+ seems resistant to these denial of service attacks, but you know: once we all migrate, and there is nothing else of similar importance worth attacking, those tiresome children will turn their attention to G+.

Considering all the fooforah about "real names" and deleting accounts without accountability, I don't trust G+ to be a benign servant, and so I will continue to access my online life through several platforms. There's a little bit of redundancy, but I think it is worth the extra time needed to navigate the redundancy.

You know what? I may cross post this to G+. :)

And now finally to LJ, 8 hours later.

Edited 7:40 pm local BC time: okay, not actually automated cross-posting.  I'm not up to learning about that just yet.

& LJ is down again.

It is very random. It would be interesting to see whether or not the unability to connect travels around the globe making use in business servers as they reduce activity at the end of the work day. Dunno, just wondered, since people are experiencing different times and amounts of outage.

Huh. I just realized that there isn't really a noun for that yet. When the electricity is not available, it is called an outage. What should we call it when the users of a social media are denied access? A denial? That would make sense with the reason: denial of service attack.

Hmmm.

It seems that the way to get access to LJ is to go somewhere else and post about not having access to LJ.  No wonder people develop magical thinking.