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Hmmm, if you were ever on livejournal, you might want to listen to this podcast of reply all. However, warning, it is by two fairly grating twenty-somethings. Who I keep wanting to smack, however, when they stick to the topic -- which is Russia's war and take-down of livejournal, they are pretty good.

1. Interesting, there's an assumption by folks that just because they only wrote on a social media site as a teen, using it as a diary that they are ashamed of, everyone on it was also a teenager doing it too. Or just because the only people they interacted with and read were teens in their little corner of lj....then of course it's just a platform for teen diaries. Nothing else exists. (LOL! No you poor deluded fools. This is the problem with sitting inside a bubble.) Fans on boards made similar mistakes.

2. The bit on what happened with Livejournal...is fascinating. Apparently, while it was (according to these guys, just a teen blog), it became a political platform for Russians and they used it for something else.

The gist? Then Russia changed its regime, and wanted to take down LJ. But they can't because it is a US owned social media platform. What happens next...is pretty horrible.
But that's not how they take it down, they do it by offering an obscene amount of money to take it over, and arrest anyone who doesn't fit what they want. And then transfer the content over to Russia. And Russia now has the rights to everyone's content.

Unless of course you deleted it. Like I did.