Once upon a time, way back in 2004 (yes, 20 years ago now), I signed up for a Live Journal account and then completely forgot about it. That is, until 31 December 2023 when Live Journal sent me this reminder of my 19th anniversary. Lucky me. I don’t normally check on my Yahoo mail account all that often. It is, shall we say, my low-value email account I give to low-value organizations such as Live Journal. Or Disney… but I digress.

Anyway, I decided to check out what it was like, because believe me, I had totally forgotten it was there. So I clicked the link to look, and got the following:

Live Journal wanted me to log in, and amazingly I still remembered the password, which is a massive security no-no; if you can remember a password from 20 years ago, it means you should change it ASAP if for no other reason than it’s probably all over the dark web by now. And Live Journal agreed with that sentiment, telling me it was “out of date” and to reset it. So I did.

I accepted the new and improved user agreement, which among other things allowed Live Journal and its agents to harvest my organs when I die, among other actions.

Once in I discovered that I’d created exactly four entries, two of them dupes, back on 31 December 2004. The handle invader_moose was my youngest daughter, who was a big fan of Invader Zim and riffed off the show’s name. The first entry at the bottom explains it all. Unfortunately, after trying out exactly four posts I promptly forgot about it and moved on with other more exciting life adventures.

I will not post anything new to Live Journal, unless it’s to troll, and I’ve got better things to do with my time. If you want to know why Live Journal is so radioactive social-media wise (even more than Twitter X), then read the link below.

Links

Whatever Happened to LiveJournal? — https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/whatever-happened-livejournal/