I was drawn to LJ after being a lurker on a couple of Usenet groups for years, because the interesting people were moving over here. I lurked for quite a while, reading another user's flist, before I got my own account.
I'm not really interested in dealing with the technical issues of running my own server or administering my own spam-blocking, so LJ works well for me; also, the built-in community aspects are more enticing than a bunch of scattered blogs.
I did snag my username on greatestjournal, just in case anything happened to LJ, but
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I'm not really interested in dealing with the technical issues of running my own server or administering my own spam-blocking, so LJ works well for me; also, the built-in community aspects are more enticing than a bunch of scattered blogs.
I did snag my username on greatestjournal, just in case anything happened to LJ, but