Nostalgic return!

I miss the days of LJ. I'm so tired of how confrontational "social media" has become these days. I remember when we had LJs and people would post big write ups about their lives and what they'd been up to and what they were thinking about and we'd have real conversations, and develop real friendships. I reluctantly got dragged into facebook as that's where everyone was hanging out. But the past couple years it's just gotten horrible. You can't even comment on a friend's post there any more without someone (and I really mean some man) coming along and telling you that your opinion is wrong, or your facts are wrong. Even when you show they are right, and then it just turns into a huge argument. There was a meme going round about what it'd be like if you acted like facebook was real life and it was showing, pictures of dinners and stupid stuff. But I think it's like you are sitting in a pub trying to talk to your friend and the obnoxious drunk guy you don't know turns up and starts yelling at you both and won't go away. So you leave and try and find a nicer quieter pub. So I'm going to try dreamwidth as my nice quiet pub, to keep as my journal again. Post my photos to instagram. Use twitter for fangirling, and just log onto facebook for events and message people I'm out of touch with. I'm also going to create a knitting blog for keeping track of my knitting projects as that seems to be the majority of my time lately. I'll leave posts unlocked on here for now as otherwise no one will be able to read them. I'm just wanting a quiet space away from everything for awhile.