revjim.net

At least in my life, LiveJournal is not an effective method of communicating crucial information. If you need to tell me something and be SURE that I get it, talking to me in person is your best bet. If that can't be done a phone call is your second best bet.

After those very conventional methods of communication the not so conventional methods fall in line. Next comes an email. Then an IM. Then a voicemail. Then comes sticking a note to the front windsheild of my truck. After that comes pissing your message into the sidewalk in front of my apartment door. Finally, after all those, comes leaving a post in LiveJournal. And even then I've probably left a few out.

It doesn't matter how big you stamp a picture of me on the post. It doesn't matter how big the font is. My friends list is long, and sometimes I don't get to all of it. If I don't scroll down far enough to see your post, then it doesn't matter how flashy you make it, I'm not going to see it. It's not that I don't like you, and it's not that I don't want to read your post. I just have too many people on my friends list, and sometimes I can't read them all. Once a week, I try to visit the journals of the people I really care about to make sure I didn't miss any posts, but even that doesn't always happen.

If you need to tell me something important, please don't use LiveJournal to do so. While there is a possibility that I will get the message, there is also a possibility that I will not.

Thanks.