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Friday, July 29, 2005

The difference between blogger and lj

After spending some time exploring the functions of blogger and having been a past user of lj, I must say that there are really many differences between these two platforms. For one thing, I like lj better. Because lj is a means by which I interact and participate in communities. Yeah....if you are asking, yes, they are anime-related. Communities are fun because they all share resources freely and the people there are pretty nice. In this sense, lj is more interactive. Blogs are places where you post your own thoughts and reflections. Although people can take turns to write a blog also, (I have seen group blogs) but the amount of participation is usually less.

Another reason why I like lj is because there's such a thing as lj-cut. That means you can hide the rest of your post behind a cut and not have to worry about cluttering the first page. I usually use lj-cut if I want to post anything spoilerish. Cause I don't want people to complain to me how they are accidentally spoilt by reading my post.....Personally I eat and breathe spoilers for shows that I like to watch anyway.

The last reason why I like lj.....you can friend-locked certain posts. That means if an entry is too private, you can locked it so that only your friends can view it. I'm not sure if blogger can do that too since I'm not yet familiar with blogger.

But blogger does have it's advantages too. Layout is nice and easier to manipulate. And simple things like font changing and bolding can be done easily too. Blogger really allows you to change a lot of things very easily. If I'm not wrong, I think you need some html in order to change the fonts used in lj. The editor in blogger is far easier. I guess maybe because I start off using lj, lj will always have a special place in my heart. I'm such a sentimental person....hahah.....

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