Until the end of the party

Every time I try to view or update LJ and can't I ask myself, How many more borderline users just withered away? I had some ideas for a post or two yesterday, but I wasn't able to even comment on posts until the end of the day, and by then my inspiration had fled.

I've been trying out other social media, but I'm still finding them rather unsatisfying. bitterlawngnome had been urging me for months to get on Bearbookbruizr, luring me on with his appraisal that it's reminiscent of the good ol' days of LJ when it really was a burbling cocktail party. And although I can see what he means, I'm still finding it difficult to overcome the extremely Facebookish interface. Also, I'm finding myself torn about whether to go hog wild and just Buddy everyone I know there from either FB or here or whether to exercise a bit more restraint.

Two bears in particular I'm dithering about what to do with. One is Dale, who I still haven't forgiven for his little hissy fit last week. I'm reassessing that relationship and asking myself again how healthy it really is to keep up with someone so dreadfully insecure. On the other hand, there's the nice Wisconsin guy I met at a Game Night several months back and haven't seen again since. My attempts to banter with him kind of blew up on me, so I've dialed it back and now our conversations are dull as paint. For a while, I was actually avoiding FB in order not to be stuck chatting with him, which was arguably more blessing than curse.

Edit: Ironically, it took three tries to post this. Then I wasn't able to get in to edit it again until right now. Turns out LJ is suffering another major DDOS. Seriously, if they can't figure out which is the right Russian mobster/politician to pay off, couldn't they just give them all a cut?