Current location:	Austin, TX
Current mood:	calm
Current music:	Romeo Void "Never Say Never"
Entry tags:	bear market, lifeboat, livejournal

LJ's fate
Dee and I started our website Luvbight Photography just 5 years ago, because of the social networking life cycle.

We'd been sharing our photos on Yahoo Groups from 2000 to 2003, but at Kink in the Caribbean 4 we took some really good photos, and we were hesitant to rely on Yahoo to share them. Yahoo had a reputation for deleting groups with no warning, and besides they had this ridiculous 400x400 pixel limit on photos, anyway.

We decided that the only way to safely share and archive our photos and ideas was our own website.

Of course that's no basis for keeping in touch with friends...but it does make for a good archive.

Social networking sites are just like nightclubs...first they're too small, then they get cool and there's a long line outside waiting to get in, then they're overdone and finally they're forgotten as some other club obtains "cool" status.

What I like about LJ is that our friends are here...you fine people are what make this a worthwhile place. There's a lot of overlap on Fetlife, so we that will be our lifeboat for social contact. I've gotten really into DeviantArt, too. It's nice to have a community of photography geeks to review your photos. It's telling that on DeviantArt my most popular image is NOT a picture of Dee's genital piercings, but a photo of a Space Shuttle launch. The genital piercing photos do rank #2 and #3 :-)

But we view our posts on LJ and Fetlife like art at Burning Man...here for a time then gone in a puff of smoke.

We'll keep reading LJ and posting, but anyting we want to save for posterity wil still go onto our web site.

--Mick and Dee