drama snarks
Jan. 7th, 2009 03:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fingertroubleI'm thinking of calling shenanigans on those who call 'LJ DRAMA' more often than say, 2-3 months. There should be a law or device to remind those that not every thing requires a cynical snarky 'OH NOES IT'S TEH LJ DRAMA QUEENS!!!'' response - it's actually sometimes as boring and wearing as those when people run around with their head on fire, which does happen, but usually only en masse every 3-6 months.
Could call it the Dalai Drama Rule, like Godwin's rule, to be invoked during undue snarkiness.
Thing is, sometimes the panic is needed to motivate people - you might love to sit their in your smug complacency which is your right, but if you do and LJ does go under, I reserve the right to point and laugh like a little child ;-p
So wait to see if LJ does go under and graciously lets it's expensive servers keep going and gives you plenty of notice while not wanting it's net worth to plummit with advance warning, and having maybe other priorities on it's mind. And I hear the Tooth Fairy, Santa and God have just joined and would like to friend you. Whatever.
Thing is some of us are old hands on the Net - been online since96 93 and lived and worked during the last crash. Big sites like Boo.com cost 26 Million, lasted 6 months then evaporated. Those in the industry read FuckedCompany (RIP) and giggled nervously in a schadenfreunde gallows-humour way as companies l
went under, while worrying about our own jobs. Sites and companies evaporated and table football stocks went down. Only a few big sites survived, like Lastminute, Yahoo etc. (and LJ but at that point I think it was just Brad Fitz's pet project?) but only just.
Thankfully a lot of the new media companies learned from this and have kept small - whereas the likes of Woolies didn't. So maybe LJ will keep trumbling on, but mark my words: there will be social media and Web 2.0 casualties of this economy. And there won't be warning, it will just evaporate, like in 1999/2000.
So please don't let any important data go with it...call me a panic merchant if you want, snark ahead, but there is real basis in this panic, as all these Web 2.0 sites store your data - would you be able to cope if that site goes overnight?
Could call it the Dalai Drama Rule, like Godwin's rule, to be invoked during undue snarkiness.
Thing is, sometimes the panic is needed to motivate people - you might love to sit their in your smug complacency which is your right, but if you do and LJ does go under, I reserve the right to point and laugh like a little child ;-p
So wait to see if LJ does go under and graciously lets it's expensive servers keep going and gives you plenty of notice while not wanting it's net worth to plummit with advance warning, and having maybe other priorities on it's mind. And I hear the Tooth Fairy, Santa and God have just joined and would like to friend you. Whatever.
Thing is some of us are old hands on the Net - been online since
went under, while worrying about our own jobs. Sites and companies evaporated and table football stocks went down. Only a few big sites survived, like Lastminute, Yahoo etc. (and LJ but at that point I think it was just Brad Fitz's pet project?) but only just.
Thankfully a lot of the new media companies learned from this and have kept small - whereas the likes of Woolies didn't. So maybe LJ will keep trumbling on, but mark my words: there will be social media and Web 2.0 casualties of this economy. And there won't be warning, it will just evaporate, like in 1999/2000.
So please don't let any important data go with it...call me a panic merchant if you want, snark ahead, but there is real basis in this panic, as all these Web 2.0 sites store your data - would you be able to cope if that site goes overnight?