LiveJournal, created in 1999 by Brad Fitzpatrick, began as a personal journaling application to help him and his high school friends keep in touch.

Recognizing the broader appeal of digital self-expression, Fitzpatrick soon transformed LiveJournal into a public website.

This move established LiveJournal as a pioneer in blending blogging with early social networking, allowing users not just to write for themselves but to build communities and interact around shared interests.

What made LiveJournal stand out from other blogging sites was its social architecture.

Unlike typical blogs, which functioned mainly as personal publishing platforms, LiveJournal integrated interactive features at its core.

Users could post entries, comment on others’ posts, create or join group blogs called “communities,” and organize their social connections through the “friends feed,” which aggregated friends’ activity into a single stream.

Adding someone as a “friend” allowed mutual or one-way following, a model that would later influence larger social networks.

LiveJournal’s technical flexibility also set it apart.

Users could upload manuscripts in any format, add illustrations, and structure posts with their own headings and subheadings.

Posts were indexed by major search engines, allowing content creators—even beginners—to reach a wider audience.

This openness fostered both personal and collaborative content, making the platform especially appealing to aspiring writers and those interested in building free and open social spaces.

LiveJournal experienced its greatest growth in the early 2000s, emerging as a leader in online communities.

By early 2005, it peaked with more than 2.5 million active accounts.

The platform’s blend of blogging, social networking, and community-driven spaces made it culturally influential at a time when digital communities were rapidly expanding.

Culturally and technologically, LiveJournal had a lasting impact.

It introduced the idea of an online diary connected to a social network, drawing inspiration from earlier community sites like the WELL but extending those ideas with tools for community creation, user interaction, and friend-based activity feeds.

These features provided the blueprint for platforms that followed, such as Myspace and Facebook, proving that meaningful online interaction could include both broadcasting individual thoughts and participating in organized community dialogues.

However, LiveJournal’s popularity began to decline after 2005.

This was due largely to competition from rising social networks like Myspace, which surpassed LiveJournal with customizable profiles and open membership.

Facebook’s launch to the general public in 2006 provided an even more powerful and user-friendly social networking environment, drawing away many users.

The unique features that once distinguished LiveJournal were replicated and improved upon by these competitors.

As a result, its user base in the English-speaking world quickly decreased.

Ownership changes accelerated this decline.

LiveJournal was sold to Six Apart in 2005, then acquired by Russian company SUP Media.

The shift in ownership and operations to Russia changed the platform’s focus, with a growing emphasis on Russian-language and post-Soviet users.

Many English-speaking users felt less represented as moderation and policies adapted to new priorities, causing further migration to other platforms.

Increased moderation and instances of censorship, especially in Russia, discouraged some users who valued free expression.

Posts critical of authorities or dealing with sensitive topics were sometimes removed or frozen, prompting writers and online communities to leave for alternatives such as Telegram and Facebook.

Today, LiveJournal continues to operate, but its primary user base is Russian-speaking.

While it once set the standard for interactive online journaling and helped shape the development of contemporary social media, its influence declined with rising competition, ownership changes, and shifting content policies.

Nonetheless, its innovations—such as friends feeds, interactive communities, and open publishing—helped lay the foundation for the social platforms that followed.

LiveJournal, created in 1999 by Brad Fitzpatrick, began as a personal journaling application to help him and his high school friends keep in touch.

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Content: Regulators Seem to Think That Facebook Is the Internet

That’s a problem.

In 1997, SixDegrees.com was the first real attempt at social networking, creating a space where users could upload their information and list their friends. The site peaked at approximately 3.5 million users before it shut down in 1999.

Since then, a series of social networking business models have emerged, each time offering more advanced tools for user interaction. LiveJournal, a site for keeping up with school friends, combined blogging and social networking features inspired by the WELL; Friendster was a social network that allowed for increased interaction and control by users; Myspace had open membership and gave users the freedom to customize their pages. In 2005, it—and its 25 million user base—was sold to News Corp. But within three years, Myspace had been surpassed by Facebook, which launched in 2004 for college students and opened to everyone in 2006.

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As that history shows, in the early days of the internet, disruption was profound and constant: New companies emerged in music, video, e-commerce, publishing, and telephony on an almost yearly basis. The internet appeared to be a space where competition could thrive.

Not anymore.

Today, disruption happens in much smaller ways. The examples are getting fewer because economies of scale have concentrated innovation in the hands of a few players.

More often, disruption comes from regulation—for better or, often, for worse. Current regulation attempts focus on the actions and behavior of some actors—chiefly Facebook—while creating unintended consequences for the internet, particularly fragmentation, or the splintering of the global internet into one that more closely hews territorial borders.

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It’s understandable that both the public and regulators might think that regulating “the internet” means focusing on the biggest players. Much of it has to do with the fact that users are often exposed to various types of illegal behavior and content through some of the most popular services that exist on the internet. Fix misinformation, or extremism, or ideological silos, or security on Facebook, the thinking goes, and you’ve fixed it on the internet as a whole.

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But this is an unhelpful and misguided narrative. First, the internet is not a monolith, so treating it as if it is simply will not work. Second, many of the issues regulators are trying to address are not internet problems; they are societal. Terrorism, child abuse, and mis- and disinformation are not an offspring of the internet; they existed before the internet, and they will continue to exist after it as they are ingrained in human societies. Yet, they are treated as if they are exclusively internet problems. Third, and most importantly, regulators should stop thinking of the internet as Facebook and treating it as such. In the internet regulatory landscape, there is a mixed bag of different issues, and Facebook’s involvement in all of them, direct or indirect, adds to the current complexity. Content moderation, privacy, intermediary liability, competition, encryption—these are all broader issues related to the internet, not just Facebook. Yet, the pattern that has emerged is to treat them as Facebook issues. What this means is that, instead of focusing on trying to address them in ways appropriate for the entire internet ecosystem, they are addressed through the Facebook lens. This has been quite accurately characterized as the “Facebook Derangement Syndrome.”

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The global regulatory agenda is replete with such examples. In the United Kingdom, the Online Safety legislation wants to ban end-to-end encryption because of Facebook’s plan to introduce it as a default setting in its Messenger service. On the other side of the Commonwealth, Australia recently introduced a media bargaining code mainly targeting Facebook. Facebook famously “left” the country before renegotiating a new agreement. Similarly, in what seems to be a coordinated effort, Canada has vowed to work with Australia in an attempt to impose regulatory restrictions on Facebook.

And this trend is not limited to the Commonwealth.

India’s new intermediary guidelines aim at tightening a regulatory grip on Facebook and its partner company WhatsApp while Brazil’s fake news bill, which got approved by the Senate, is focusing on content moderation on Facebook and traceability on WhatsApp. In France, there have been conversations about the introduction of “new rules” for Facebook, while Germany’s Network Enforcement Law—NetzDG—was drafted with the primary focus of taming Facebook. Finally, in the United States, the Trump administration issued an unsuccessful executive order that aimed to regulate Facebook for bias.

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This approach of limiting regulation to Facebook is not entirely unusual. It reflects the principal-agent conundrum that, over the years, has allowed companies like Facebook to  propose policies and deploy tools that can have an impact on the way regulation gets to be enforced. The principal-agent problem is predominantly characterized by conflict of interest and moral hazards. Due to information asymmetries, the agent holds the bargaining power, and this creates a few unknowns: The principal is in no position to know the information the agent holds. Even when she does, she cannot be certain that the agent is acting to her best interest. So, the principal ends up focusing squarely on the agent, disregarding any peripheral issues that might be significant.

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The principal-agent problem may help explain why governments appear ready to introduce regulation targeting Facebook; however, it does not help explain why, in the process of doing so, the main loser is the internet and its users.

Over the past couple of years, Facebook has said, “We support regulation,” and “we want updated internet regulations to set clear guidelines for addressing today’s toughest challenges.” This statement would be significant if it did not come across as self-serving. At this stage, regulation is inescapable and Facebook knows it—as does the rest of big tech. In an effort to adapt to this new reality, companies often take advantage of their dominant position to drive regulatory processes, often at the expense of regulation itself.

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In this context, the question we should be asking is not whether regulation is appropriate, but what are the real implications of regulating in such a manner? There is already an argument that focusing on a few, big players has an impact on the health of innovation and the ability of newcomers to compete. And, then, there is the internet. The internet’s global reach is one of its main strengths. It is a feature, not a bug. Among other things, it allows the maintenance of supply chains all over the world; it allows people to communicate; it lowers costs; and it makes information sharing easier, all the while helping to address societal issues like poverty or climate change.

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To this end, the attempt to regulate based on one—or a handful—of companies can jeopardize this very important goal of the internet. It can create fragmentation, in the sense of not allowing data to flow across borders or networks to interconnect, and this can be very real and have a very big impact. It can impose limits on the way information and data gets to be shared and the way networks may interoperate. These are significant trade-offs, and they must be part of any regulation’s process.

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So where do we go from here?

For sure, the answer cannot be to stop regulating. We must accept, however, that the current approach often generates unintended consequences that only superficially affect those who must be regulated.

In this light, a possible way forward is to experiment with regulation. Experimental regulation is a relatively underused approach, yet it is flexible enough to accommodate dynamic markets, like the internet. Originally associated with the work of John Dewey, this idea is premised on the fact that, in policymaking, the way we approach theories and strategies of justice depends on “the experience of their pursuit; it is these changes that then allow us to consider how best to achieve our objectives.” The advantage of this thinking is that it considers unintended consequences as an opportunity to better define appropriate regulatory frameworks and how to achieve the desired goals.

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Internet regulation does not experiment enough, and when it does, it appears to have the wrong focus. In Australia, for instance, the effort to ensure robust journalism in an age of disinformation in social media platforms led to a “link tax” that undermines the architecture, history, and economics of the internet. This is partly due to the role big tech companies play in the regulatory process. One of the immediate things one can observe with internet regulation is the process some actors deploy: In the beginning, they operate in favor of sustaining existing policies and bureaucracies. The thinking is that longevity brings legitimacy, and as a result, the policy becomes its own cause. Once this strategy is embedded in process, these powerful forces move toward pushing their own regulatory agenda.

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It is for this reason that there is a certain appeal toward flexible regulatory systems that allow different units to experiment with different approaches and make room for assessments that separate the relevant from the nonrelevant and preexisting rules. Although experimentation neither offers a drastic approach nor aims to replace traditional routes of regulation, it can limit the risks of politicization, as politics become more context focused.

One of the first things we need is an internet impact assessment that looks at the different parts of the internet’s infrastructure and the effect that regulation may have. It is no longer just about regulating a few actors. It is about protecting the global infrastructure that we all depend on daily.

The internet has a Facebook problem, but the internet is not Facebook.

This article represents the views of the author and not those of his employer, the Internet Society. Facebook is an organization member of the Internet Society.

Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society.

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Recognizing the broader appeal of digital self-expression, Fitzpatrick soon transformed LiveJournal into a public website.

This move established LiveJournal as a pioneer in blending blogging with early social networking, allowing users not just to write for themselves but to build communities and interact around shared interests.

What made LiveJournal stand out from other blogging sites was its social architecture.

Unlike typical blogs, which functioned mainly as personal publishing platforms, LiveJournal integrated interactive features at its core.

Users could post entries, comment on others’ posts, create or join group blogs called “communities,” and organize their social connections through the “friends feed,” which aggregated friends’ activity into a single stream.

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Content: LiveJournal is back in Kazakhstan
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Anna VLADIMIROVA
Access to the "Live Journal" was restored after the administration of the LiveJournal blog platform executed the decisions of the judicial authorities of Kazakhstan on the removal of illegal materials posted on the resource.
Representatives of LiveJournal reported on the removal from the blogging platform of materials containing signs of propaganda of terrorism and religious extremism, public calls to commit acts of terrorism and the manufacture of explosive devices.
Earlier, the Saryarka court of Astana issued a decision to close access to the “Live Journal ” from August 20, 2011 due to the distribution of these materials.
As a result, the Committee of Communications, Informatization and Information of the Ministry of Investment and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan decided to resume access to the resource on the territory of Kazakhstan from November 11 this year.
LiveJournal also plans to open a representative office in Kazakhstan and develop the Kazakhstan segment of the blogging platform.
For reference: “Live Journal ” is a blogging platform for keeping online diaries (blogs).
Provides the ability to publish your own and comment on other people ’ s records, conduct collective blogs (“communities ”), add other users to friends and follow their records in the“ friends feed ”.
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Content: Listen to me naked!
01.11.2021, 3: 20, Miscellaneous
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(Subtle story by LiveJournal author Edel Weiss)
And here is another work from an unrecognized (yet!) author.
The format in this case is the most organic for the genre of my LiveJournal reviews, because for once a story called “Declamation ” is posted right here, here, in the LiveJournal.
I think it's beautiful.
What is LiveJournal not a platform for beginners?
LiveJournal is no worse, in my opinion, the same site for beginner graphomanians Avtor.ru - on the contrary, LiveJournal is better!
Here you can upload manuscripts in any format, provide them with illustrations, highlight headings and subheadings as you like; another important point for the author is that publications in LiveJournal are indexed by all search engines, the same Yandex and even Google.
And the publication on the "Author" is still to be found!
In a word, yes – I am a patriot of LiveJournal, I consider LiveJournal to be the best and at least the most free social network in Russia (and perhaps in the world) – and therefore I started reading the story, we can say, giving him a couple of points of affection in advance.
And then there was the second one: a story.
That is, not something dimensionless that read - not reread, but finally - a miniature!
"Declamation" is really small, it does not even have a special plot, in terms of genre - this is such a sketch, a trinket; the author clearly rests more on the beauty of the language, his metaphors... and, what to hide, eroticism - which he tried to load into the work to the maximum.
And given that the hero of the story, apparently, a kind of alter ego of the author, and not even a writer, but, take it above - a poet...
Most likely, the author thought of the "Declaration" as a kind of "poem in prose."
With this view, by the way, the name itself acquires an exquisite double “highlighting ” meaning: on the one hand, the story is really“ about recitation ” (the characters agree that one will recite something to another), and on the other hand, it seems to be “recitation ” itself, that is, something designed to read aloud.
Since I have already accumulated experience in LiveJournal - with a dozen reviews on opuses of various genres - this story from the author with the pseudonym Edel Weiss (meaning not a mountain flower, but a German beer), seemingly an obvious man, reminded me most of all... women's "love novels".
(The phenomenon of “female erotica ” I recently analyzed on the example of the erotic thriller“ Stone Messalina ” authored by a certain Mirisi).
However, before romance novels, it has at least one undeniable advantage (from the point of view of a man) - it is short.
The plot there is very simple and one-way: at a party in a certain club (it is impossible even to guess the country), the hero meets his girlfriend, she asks to read her new poems, the hero breaks for a while, and then exposes to her a certain - erotic! - condition that the girl happily accepts.
ALL.
In general, since the story is short, and besides it is on the same resource on which I write this - let's you read it right now (there are three pages), and then return to the exchange of impressions.
Follow the link, then come back, enriched with impressions.
(PAUZA)
Well, what do you say?
Personally, I am tormented by one absurdity: the story seems so short, but for some reason I want it to be even shorter.
Strangely enough, he seems confused.
The reason, apparently, is that after all, the author ’ s “beauty of language ” cannot atone for the obvious poverty of content, or rather, simply the absence of HISTORY as such.
Although someone, I am sure, it may well "come in."
After all, the essence of such prose is not to tell something, but to create a certain mood, in this case - love longing and at the same time anticipation.
And, unlike the plot, there is a certain idea in the story, and the idea is not very trivial: the author seems to tell us (and it is difficult not to agree with him): if you, incompetent contemporaries, demand from us, the creators, to read to you your own, written in blood, coming from the heart, works - that is, demand, in fact, to open your soul - then do you think it is not fair that you in The answer also revealed something from what you have – well, at least the body?!
It makes sense.
But perhaps a little more interesting would be to read the story on the contrary - assuming that his main character is all the same girl.
The girl is obsessed with the idea of opening to the young man on whom she has laid an eye her best work, which she rightly considers her young body.
However, her chosen one is a tough nut, and in fact a natural Narcissus; he is so egocentric, so absorbed in himself that all the efforts of the girl disappear into thin air – he barely notices her.
And then she finds a workaround, makes a kind of “knight move ” – catches the narcissistic author on his vanity, depicting an interest in his poems (which others do not enjoy any success).
And here the chosen one immediately melts like wax, and – bingo!
Finally agrees to meet the girl alone and does not even mind that she will be naked.
The upcoming happy ending of the main character is only spoiled by the knowledge of an experienced reader that the joy with a narcissist is doomed to be short-lived, and that she will still cry with this bore.
There would be some dashing twist here for us by the author...
But no, alas – the genre of romantic poetry in the prose of twists does not provide.
There are not as many successful metaphors in the story as we would like, but here is one I liked: the hero makes his way through the frameless crowd in the club, and the author describes it this way: “He swam through the ragged hum of conversations, unnoticed by anyone, like a submarine. ”
All right!
Dialogues, in my opinion, are a weak point in the story - they are too ironed, people do not talk like that even at philosophical symposia.
But sometimes quite narrative descriptions are made quite carelessly, such as “Asya was well dressed and cleaned. ”
What is “hair ” about?
You mean, "she had a neat haircut"?
Perhaps this is historically correct – but still today they do not say so.
And I have the word "removed" for some reason associated with the deceased...
“Looking deep inside, I walked with two glasses to the bottle formation.
Without being distracted by the surroundings, he poured something. ”
Totally vague epithets.
It seems that this phrase from the middle best conveys the essence of the whole work.
Little materiality, textures.
The image of the heroine: "Some soft folds of iridescent silk on the chest, tightly covered hips, sparkles of jewelry, finely selected shade of lips."
In general, some kind of picture in the spirit of abstractionists.
On the other hand, there is something in it, a man ’ s look at a woman.
What does he see?
Chest, thighs, lips, everything.
She can't see her ass because she's sitting on it.
I'd like to, though.
No, in principle, this little story is not as simple as it seems.
You can even dig up and even find something there.
Link again: https: / / mercibo.livejournal.com / 167060.html
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Can add illustrations
Can highlight headings

Posts were indexed by major search engines, allowing content creators—even beginners—to reach a wider audience.

Why does one author believe LiveJournal is a superior platform?

This openness fostered both personal and collaborative content, making the platform especially appealing to aspiring writers and those interested in building free and open social spaces.

What does one user believe LiveJournal to be in Russia?

LiveJournal experienced its greatest growth in the early 2000s, emerging as a leader in online communities.

By early 2005, it peaked with more than 2.5 million active accounts.

The platform’s blend of blogging, social networking, and community-driven spaces made it culturally influential at a time when digital communities were rapidly expanding.

Culturally and technologically, LiveJournal had a lasting impact.

It introduced the idea of an online diary connected to a social network, drawing inspiration from earlier community sites like the WELL but extending those ideas with tools for community creation, user interaction, and friend-based activity feeds.

These features provided the blueprint for platforms that followed, such as Myspace and Facebook, proving that meaningful online interaction could include both broadcasting individual thoughts and participating in organized community dialogues.

However, LiveJournal’s popularity began to decline after 2005.

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Content: Electronic Donkey
28-08-2022
Electronic Donkey
1
When a farmer ’ s donkey burns and does not want to walk behind him to the mill, he extends a bouquet of hashish to him and follows him. Whenever he burns, he gives him a bite of the bouquet and follows him until the donkey reaches the mill and is still hungry: this is how the mind of social media addicts works on electronic excitement, as they feel more emptiness and hunger after each bite. It is more than the precious and the abnormal or the liar more than the right, because the size of the emptiness and boredom of the individual is determined by the time he is on the platforms of communication, except those who manage the platforms and collect their money from their consumers, such as the supermarket: you enter to take the object you want and get out of it loaded with things you did not want …
2.
The irony is that the global communication platforms have become the identity of consumers more than their national card (identity), after the presence of people virtual more than real, and the personal page is what paints the image of the individual colorful in front of the rest of the consumers, a virtual representation may appear dog seven, cow butterfly, fish eagle, fish, turtle rabbit and worm hermit, until the world is like a fake forest may punish you If you show the truth about their beings and remove their masks for violating privacy!
After the writers and actors were the ones presenting the play on the stage, the audience wrote and represented it, where the majority of women imitate the artists and present their image as a mixture between the Virgin Mary and Marilyn Monroe in their morning and evening publications, while men present themselves as poets, sages and artists. A judge, a reformer, a psychotherapist, a broadcaster, a coward, a bully, a religious, a seductive star, a poet, a healer of cosmic energy, with a lot of beggars, swindlers and harassers of course, until the specialties were copied and the people listened to the most popular and not the most familiar with the subject.
The second paradox is that the official institutions have become hostage to trends and the obsession of the public, where they try to appease him with mostly failed movements, despite the army of specialists they use, the fake pages they launch, and the money they use to buy the most influential pages, even now the ministries are establishing their pages and address their citizens on the means of communication on the terms of the owners of multinational platforms.
The third paradox is that the international media is using fragmented or composite videos and the comments of the virtual audience on the event and focusing on those that suit the policy of their funders at the expense of the truth!
3.
The best book I ’ ve ever read about the future we live in today was Zbigeno Brzezinski ’ s Between Two Ages: American Strategy in the Technotronic Age (1969), translated into Arabic in Beirut in 1982, which heralded the formation of a new American-led world order. At the end of the last century, its impact reaches us after a quarter of a century, because our modernity and secularism are always late, and we are going to the place that other nations have surpassed, because of the mobile loads of our culture that are located deep in the heads of our citizens and hinder our progress.
Paper media began to decline in favor of electronic media at the beginning of the third millennium, and we notice the leakage of our paper readers to websites, where they can get the news at the moment of occurrence, and can express their opinion about it...
During the first five years, a few Syrian sites were established, including my site (camel), and our proliferation necessitated the establishment of an information security branch, and its role was negative towards those who did not obey their directives, as well as the role of the Ministry of Information was negative and not keeping pace with development, up to the beginning of the Syrian war, where these sites were divided between supporters and opponents of state policy. Slowly, it disappears as its funding was dependent on advertising, and its audience began to shrink after the second year of the war, as our readers moved to Facebook and Twitter and turned into journalists and analysts!
Since there is no value to writing without readers, writers and journalists have been forced to catch up with their audience to add all nations, but under other conditions, it may be democratic and contribute to enriching the dialogue, but it has lost prestige and reduced the courage of writers to say what does not agree with the desire of the audience, which has implicated some of them in the vice of social hypocrisy and not dare to put forward revolutionary ideas that are incompatible with the culture of society!
When the goal of admiration of the recipient does not enlighten him weakens the presence of the truth and the movement of renewal slows down and shrinks the space of knowledge in a consumer society inclined to easy, fast and free food at the expense of feeding the book, which needs long time and deep thinking, and the electronic consumer knows something about everything but is not competent in anything!
4
Everyone is addicted to something, but there are people who are more addictive than others and most of the social media audience is.
Some psychological studies talk about the manifestations of electronic addiction, the first of which is (FOMO), that is, the person who fears to miss something, follows events and people around the clock and does not miss the opportunity to attend and virtual participation in them to appear as the actor, solidarity or rejection and bully. He may bully others not because of their mistake, but because they are more exposed and famous than them.
Studies add that hours of social media attendance are associated with a person ’ s level of social isolation, depression, jealousy, and poor self-esteem.
Of course, the Arab autocratic regimes, which marginalized the individual for centuries, are the first cause of exaggerated ego inflation on the media, where rejection of internal policies makes the individual feel important regardless of the correctness or error of these policies (I oppose, so I exist). But it has not been able to improve his morals and his life, because it is institutions, not e-cafes, on which powerful countries are built.
5.
It is undeniable that social media has constituted a new shift in human civilization, but in the Arab countries, which use the means of progress to promote backwardness, it has contributed to the development of jealousy, envy, lust, cheating, hypocrisy, betrayal, rebellion, extremism, terrorism, fluidity, abnormality and poor communication with the family. This is therefore unemployment and poor productivity of society, strengthening the band and spiritual alienation and poor self-confidence and a lot of bad things in exchange for a few good things such as the display of intelligence and giving, and there is no cure for it so far, where the advice of preachers seems old and funny, and the presence of writers, researchers and thinkers weak, because the human soul tends to ease and relaxation and freedom from moral restrictions. We have already seen some of its applications in the events of the (Arab Spring), where its electronic coordination committed all the above evils under the slogan "war is a trick" relative to the hadith attributed to the Holy Prophet, although the apostles should not deceive or lie or even fight as long as the sender is not a liar or deceiver as the divine logic assumes, and thus the owners of social networking shops have lost consumers whatever their race or their religion or political orientation.
Returning to Brzezinski ’ s theory of e-ethics, I mention a story of young people that I read in Superman magazine in the 1970s, where he wrote it, printed it, and published it for us by the Egyptian brothers, in addition to the magazines “Mickey ” and“ The Bat ” American …
The story follows Superman ’ s journey to Krypton, where he was born, after a recording leaked in which the cutest of Superman ’ s father says to his mother: “We ’ re about to commit our best crime, Lara! ”
This prompted Superman to travel in space to find out the truth, as he carries an earthly concept of morality and commandments.
When Superman intervened to protect a Kryptonian citizen from a gang that caused a fight and saved the victim by smashing a glass window, the police came and interrogated him. After he recounted the incident and confessed to smashing the front of the shop and repelling the bad guys, he was sentenced to prison for telling the truth and not lying, in addition to the charge of obstructing the work of criminals. You say, "Lie, steal, kill"?
Indeed, American cartoons were based on the same vision in which Brzezinski spoke of our time, where the prostitute is a star, the coward is a hero, the pimp is an example, the thief is an investor and the homosexuals are the exception...
All of this confirms a new pattern of ethics, customs and cultures with their leaders, prophets and traders as the planet recovers towards its initial blindness.
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He looked at her calmly and said, “Write, I will kill my husband this evening. ”
She did not lie news and published on her page what her husband, the writer who wanted his virtual death to stop writing in a country that does not read as much as you browse and entertain.
Of course, the wife ’ s announcement on Facebook impressed thousands of commentators, including some of the author ’ s owners who put “I love him ” and even one of Meridiya commented“ I support him! ”
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The Modern Significance of New English Words and Hot Words of the Year
In the past 30 years, with the development and innovation of computer information, network, communication, financial technology and medicine, our society has formed various forms of digitalization in life, and further digital transformation and digital disruption, its progress has exceeded our imagination. And...
The frequency of vax use increased by 72 times during epidemic period
Many English dictionaries, such as the Oxford English Dictionary, the Cambridge English Dictionary, the Macmillan English Dictionary, and others, record and publish each year the words or new words commonly used by people during the year, or buzzwords, which give us an understanding of the changes caused by the times and social changes. Because of this, cultural change or integration, we can also see the direction of new knowledge and new technology.
The most obvious is that the Oxford English Dictionary found that the word vax (i.e. vaccination, vaccination or vaccination) has increased the frequency of use by a factor of 72 due to the outbreak of COVID-19, which has resulted in the word being selected as the Oxford English Dictionary ’ s 2021 buzzword.
The frequency of Covid-19 related words has also increased significantly in 2020 and 2021, such as pandemic, COVID-19, lockdown, social distancing, mask-wearing, quarantine at home, working from home (or WFH). The use of words such as "work from home" has increased significantly.
These annual buzzwords show the dramatic changes in the way people live, work and interact in 2020 and 2021 as a result of the pandemic.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has chosen gaslighting as its word of the year for 2022.
Literally, this may seem like a confusing word, but if someone familiar with an old British film or stage play sees gaslighting, they immediately think of the film (stage play) Gas Light (this is British dramatist Partrick Hamilton ’ s 1938 play Gas Light) and the impressive “gas light effect ” in the film.
The word has actually become a psychological term used to describe the victim's loss of confidence and self-doubt due to long-term emotional and psychological manipulation, which is the artificial control of the victim by constantly distorting the facts, known as gaslighting.
Why did Webster choose this word as the hot word of 2022?
Because in 2022 the word in the publisher's website query frequency soared by 1740%!
However, this high frequency is not due to the occurrence of a single event (such as COVID-19), but the word is queried by many people every day.
The publisher believes that it may be because our times and society are full of misinformation, fake news, Twitter trolls, deepfake technologies, etc., which make gaslighting a hot word of the year, and the modern society produces so much gaslighting, mainly because of new technology and media coupled with more complex human and human relationships and Political relationships (such as social media, groups, political parties), and new technologies (such as deep pseudo, artificial intelligence, deep learning) are being used in the wrong direction.
The New Normal: The World After the Epidemic
Even the European and American media often use the so-called "new normal" (ie, the new normal) to describe the world after the baptism of the epidemic.
The "new normal" was originally used to describe life after the 2008 financial tsunami or the 2012 global economic recession, when the economy seemed to be back to normal, in fact, people's life is no longer the old life, but after the economic impact of a new normal life.
Now the new normal refers to people after the COVID-19 epidemic, although gradually unsealed, but life has produced many changes, such as people-to-people communication and interaction, various social activities, shopping, business models, work models, the company's office mechanism and management, and the digital transformation of the industry, are no longer the same as before the epidemic.
For example, the rise of the delivery service industry, people are used to various digital payment methods to pay and pay.
The decline of physical stores and restaurants has replaced the lifestyle of online shopping, take-out, and delivery.
Contactless has become the standard of interaction or transaction, so the rapid rise of various contactless payment forms has also caused the impact of technology on finance and markets, and financial technology (fintech) has become a new phenomenon.
We are becoming familiar with the names of touch ID, face ID, third party payment, cloud, carrier, etc.
Because of digital accounts and online banking, people no longer need to go to the bank often, and do not need to use cash or write checks; transfer or pay, as long as the mobile phone can be slippery, one-click solution, the epidemic has accelerated the demand, development and application of these new technologies.
New words are created and frequently used under these new life patterns and behaviors.
The rise of social media.
Perhaps it is the sociality of people and the need for emotional release windows, when social media emerged, people fell madly in love with these can express their emotions and opinions about appearance (or perhaps a desire to “perform ”?), but can not directly face other people ’ s media.
The use of social media conforms to the principle of non-contact, but can communicate and share personal experiences and opinions; does not need to face people or crowds, but has the effect of stimulating the crowd; in addition, there can be multiple and real-time presentation (text, pictures, video), so this is also the best place to create and use new words.
Words commonly used to describe social media activities or behaviors include:
Post (a message)
Posting (Posting message)
check in check in
Blog (voice blog)
(Personal website in the form of an online diary)
story Limited-time dynamic
data volume Network volume
fan / follower
Comment Message
like Praise
follow / unfollow
Track / Cancel Tracking
emoticon / emoji
The new language of social media has a number of features in common, including:
1. Tone and emotion are expressed in text mode.
Plain text posts, in addition to the commonly used um (well), oh (oh), yeah (ye), etc., in ordinary oral conversation, due to the need to express more of the various emotions of the poster, so a lot of vocal phrases, such as weee (means cheering), boooo (means boooo), meh (means not interested, not how), eww (means bad), hmm (and hesitated).
In very short alphabetical forms, such as TTYL (talk to you later), IDK (I don ’ t know), BTW (by the way), TBH (to be honest), and so on.
Expressed in emojis (emojis or emoticons), new emojis are constantly created, each vivid and lifelike, and endearing.
4. Expression in multiple ways, in addition to text, with sounds or images, such as emojis containing words and actions.
Korean Wave Ends Cultural Exchange
The emergence of new words often shows the changes and exchanges of world culture.
The development of the Internet has brought about wonderful cultural exchanges and changes between people and people far away. For example, Korean dramas have made a huge cultural impact by providing video streaming services directly to people in different countries through the Netflix network.
Among them, the popularity of the Korean series “Squid Game ”, launched in 2021, is No. 1 in many non-Korean video markets, and has also created many topics and discussions.
In addition to fame and fortune, we can also observe that many Korean dramas on Netflix have generated interest in Korean culture and customs around the world, especially in English-speaking countries.
The Oxford English Dictionary added 26 Korean-derived English words to its latest edition last September, noting that everyone is now on the cusp of hallyu, especially in film, music, fashion and language.
These Korean-derived English words that have become popular in recent years include Korean food such as banchan, bulgogi, kimbap, japchae, chimaek (fried chicken and beer), entertainment such as k-drama, mukbang, etc. manhwa (Korean comics), k-pop (Korean pop music), and other aspects such as fighting.
These Korean-derived English words prove that vocabulary innovation is no longer limited to traditional English centers in the United Kingdom and the United States.
The significance of Korean culture is the cultural exchange achieved through popular Korean music, television, film and food. The exchange and absorption of these cultures are gradually manifested in the country of language, which is a more peaceful and beautiful phenomenon than the previous methods of war, conquest, colonization and so on.
The Korean film Parasite, released in 2016, caused widespread discussion around the world, mainly because of the film's trans-social theme of social inequality caused by capitalism, which makes the film's strong black taunts and thrilling tricks equally felt by people of all cultures.
South Korean music "Gangnam Style" was the best-selling single in South Korea in 2012. As its music videos swept the world, the song also topped the music charts in many countries, including France, Germany, Italy, England, Spain and Canada.
The song ’ s catchy beat and fun performance by South Korean singer PSY represent a world trend in electronic music and dance, but it also satirizes the lives of those who are obsessed with money and vanity in Gangnam, South Korea.
New technology creates new words
Most of the new words are related to the innovation or development of new technologies. In recent years, the knowledge and technology of the Internet and artificial intelligence have been continuously innovated and applied in various industries, so that the new words related to the information technology (IT) industry have been expanding.
For example, as everyone knows, many people also use Facebook, Facebook's company changed its name to Meta, in order to declare that the company will develop virtual world technology in the future, hoping to use artificial intelligence (AI, or artificial intelligence), 5G, virtual reality (VR, or virtual reality) and augmented reality (AR, or augmented reality). Such technology allows humans to combine the real world and the virtual world.
Meta comes from Metaverse, verse means universe, meta means beyond, in other words, beyond the real world to create a new universe with new technology.
Dreams come true, new horizons emerge
The development of the metaverse is just the beginning, requiring more time and technology, plus imagination and resources, to bear fruit.
But there are many things that were only a dream a while ago that have come true, such as cardless withdrawals, digital banks, unmanned stores, paperless (such as email, text messages, reports, receipts, signatures, etc., which no longer need to be presented in writing). Technology, and even new industries have created many new words. With these words, we often talk about “smart ” (smart or intelligent) in newspapers and magazines, such as smart car, smart home, smart office, smart manufacturing, etc., and these dreams are mostly based on new technologies (including the Internet). With the development of networking, wireless communication, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, computer vision, voice recognition, mobile control, and so on, new words in these fields have sprung up and become widely used.
In terms of shopping that is closely related to the lives of most of us, Uniform Superstore launched its first unmanned store X-STORE in 2018 (although there are still service staff in some areas), combining many new technologies and equipment, including identification, electronic tags, self-checkout, and smart technology equipment (such as FUN). Remote temperature monitoring, inventory control system, etc., create a new retail (new retail) shopping environment.
The Internet of Things (IoT) and the Internet of Vehicles (Vehicles to Everything, or V2X) are two other new terms commonly used in newspapers and magazines.
In addition, brand applications (app), e-commerce (e commerce), platform (platform), POS (point of sale) system and other new words are the words that have increased in frequency recently.
Extending New Ideas with Existing Words
We can ’ t help but wonder how new words or hot words are formed.
We are most familiar with borrowing words, or loanwords, that is to borrow words that are already in other languages, such as Chinese blogs, blogs from English, Chinese cool, and English cool.
Second, combine existing words (generating new word combinations), such as shrinkflation = shrink + inflation, sponsor + content, or fintech = finance technology, to express new phenomena and things, or new meanings.
The use of acronyms is also a common pattern for new words, such as COVID-19 (= coronavirus disease 2019), AI (= artificial intelligence), IT (= information technology).
Transliteration is often used in foreign languages in English, such as the previously mentioned words hallyu, banchan, and bulgogi, which are transliteration of the original Korean words.
What is more worthy of our attention is that many new words or hot words are actually new meanings or contexts in existing words, especially new words on the Internet or social media, which often reflect the era or social significance. For example:
traffic (traffic)
website traffic (network traffic)
Incubation (Incubation)
Incubation period (incubation period)
herd (herd)
herd immunity
The cloud (cloud)
Cloud computing (Cloud computing)
slash (slash)
slashie (slanted family)
The virus (virus)
virus (spread as quickly as a virus on social media)
Catfish People who cheat on social networking sites with fake profiles
The rapid changes in technology both confuse us and excite us, and we experience many things in our lifetime that were previously unimaginable, and we cannot help but feel the diversity of human life.
Not long ago sorting out the old things at home, found that there are many 3.5-inch disks and video tapes stored before retirement. Compared to now, even the invoices are in the cloud, like we made a big dream of Li Bo, after 20 years of dreaming, found that the world has been completely different, in order not to miss the world and life that are changing so fast, we must strive to learn a new language, in order to connect new technology and integrate into the new life mode And...
(This article is reproduced from the Joint Supplement)
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About 80% of Russians who have never blogged professionally would like to quit their main job to become bloggers.
Such data was shown by a study of the platform for working with bloggers Perfluence and the analytical agency Research Me, the results of which are available to Izvestia on August 18.
More than half of those wishing to become bloggers are Russians between the ages of 16 and 24, of which 73% are women.
In addition, men over 45 years of age spoke positively about bloggers - they see a prospect in blogging before other professions.
At the same time, when asked how much Russians would like to earn on blogging, 39% said that they would like to earn at least 100 thousand rubles per month, 26% would not agree to work as bloggers if the income does not exceed 200 thousand rubles.
“25% of respondents (noted that), in order to decide to leave the main job, you need to earn from blogging from 500 thousand to 1 million rubles.
Only 10% of respondents enough to earn on the blog 50 thousand rubles. ” – showed the results of the study.
Among those participating in the survey who are already blogging, 70% combine this activity with their main work.
For the rest of the respondents, the blog is the main source of income.
Most of the bloggers surveyed are between the ages of 25 and 35 (35%).
Also, 42% of respondents said that Instagram is a promising platform for the development of a blog.
Another 30% were in favor of TikTok, 19% in favor of YouTube, 9% of Twitter.
“Since 2018, we have seen a multiple increase not only in the number of bloggers in Russia, but also in the volume of budgets that advertisers want to invest in promotion with the help of influencers.
Blogger today is a full-fledged profession, in fact, the “fifth power ”, which in the next 5 years will displace and replace with its influence modern media.
Therefore, we are studying not only the attitude to blogging as a profession, but also its impact on the formation of modern trends in society, ” commented Kirill Pyzhov, co-founder of the Perfluence platform.
A day earlier, a study conducted by the online recruiting platform hh.ru showed that more than half (63%) of the surveyed representatives of working staff would like to change the type of activity.
According to its results, 4 out of 5 representatives of working staff are dissatisfied with their salary, while among administrative staff the share of dissatisfied is highest – 84%.
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AMMAN – Since the start of the fierce war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, the nature of the content that spreads on social networking sites has changed to become a source of instant transmission of the lives of the people in Gaza, as pioneers and influencers refrained from publishing diaries as before, taking into account the situation in Gaza on the one hand and fearing criticism on the other.
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But as the aggression on Gaza continued for several months, some had no choice but to return to publishing their diaries and works on private pages, for many of them social media is a source of livelihood.
The balance came to be the best option for them to publish, but without forgetting the bloody war that Gaza is going through, and supporting them at the same time to become the balance in publishing content is the reality of the virtual world.
This is what Khaled, 33, did when he decided to return to share some of his diaries and works on social media platforms, justifying that “life will continue but at the same time we will not forget our brothers in Gaza. ”
Khaled added that he was sharing some of his diaries and activities on his account, but without being exaggerated, in addition to supporting the Gazan people by publishing their news and praying for them and pointing out the most important ways to provide assistance to them.
“Our role as Arab peoples is to support the people of Gaza and to express our sadness and helplessness. ”
Zain Al-Sharaf, one of the social media influencers, was one of those who adopted this approach and showed that her work is based largely on social media, especially in drawing henna, and this is the way of working now for many people and pages.
She said that at the beginning of the war she stopped publishing her work for three months, and did not publish anything related to parties and courses, as her work was directly related to joy.
Zain pointed out that she was fulfilling her obligations without publishing or photographing and sharing and not only out of consideration, but because it is her duty and right to them to say, indicating that it was not a big thing, but this is the least possible.
The problem that Zain faced was that some thought that she stopped working because of the lack of publication, so she decided to return because there are obligations on the person, whether material or parties, and the human must balance in a way that is not exaggerated, but without overlooking what is happening in Gaza.
She says, “We continue our lives with a sense of humility.
So we try as much as possible to market ourselves and our work but politely, because in the presence of death and affliction one cannot live comfortably, so the noise of our daily life has to shut up a bit. ”
Zain stresses that the return was difficult, and recalls that she apologized many times, and in her first post for a concert she shared Palestinian content about henna and more than 8 drawings related to Gaza became a "trend", and noted that people at the most joyful times did not forget Gaza, awareness is spreading and everyone is moving towards the Palestinian cause.
From a technical point of view, the media consultant and trainer specialized in marketing and public relations, Bashir Merish, shows that the return to publishing on social media was an important need for many, and it stems from the fact that they are used to publishing and their inability to continue to abstain, which led to a difference in their lifestyle and push them to return again.
Merish explains that for ordinary users, influencers were unable to abstain because it would affect the future reach of their posts, as well as their dependence on income from social media posts, they had no choice but to return.
Merish states that one of the most prominent reasons for the return is to continue the income resulting from the publication of their content and increase the number of followers, while others were the main reason was to try to reduce the impact of long abstention, which leads to weakening the account and reduce the percentage of access in addition to the lack of followers in case of long abstention.
According to Merish, the budget succeeded in some and failed in some, as there is a percentage of influencers who made a budget, but without vulgarity in the content published outside the context of the war and the situation in Gaza, and those succeeded in gaining satisfaction from the followers.
As for the other category, which abstained for a while and then returned to publish normally and without taking into account the content with the current situation, I believe that the reactions were angry by the followers and expressed their dissatisfaction with what they see of the content may have been acceptable in normal situations, but now it is no longer acceptable.
On the social side, Dr. Mohammed Jreibi explained that since the events in Gaza and the start of the Zionist entity war, there has become a state of confusion and a state of deep sympathy and it was not expected that the war would continue until this period, explaining that everyone expected the events to be for a short time and then a prisoner exchange deal would end the war, but what happened was a surprise and a tragedy for all.
“We have seen a great deal of sympathy from Jordanian society for the events in Gaza, given the social entanglement, the overlap, the proximity of other peoples, and all that is happening in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
According to Jaraibi, one of the most important areas of freedom and expression in this war was social media, which played a prominent role in this war and was the main source of knowledge of people in Gaza and their follow-up and knowledge of events and follow-up as well, and may have advanced on the visual media.
He confirms that social media has become the source of news, and therefore the first reaction and rapid coverage of events and the publication of news in the first place, but over time there has been a change in the way of dealing with these events and from his point of view this is a normal development somewhat.
He goes on to say that there are certain professional aspects and interests that require publication and this is a normal situation, pointing out that the sympathy of the community towards the events in Gaza remains as is and the feelings as is and the follow-up as is, but also the citizen has become a degree of intelligence that balances his follow-up to the events in Gaza and the exercise of his normal life.
He added that the individual is also part of his support for the steadfastness of the Palestinian people to be strong and provide people with positivity and be the voice that provides psychological and social support to these people.
The ability to strike a balance between what is happening in Gaza and practicing the details of normal life is a natural part and has a positive impact on society through this equation.
Gribaa believes that there may be a negative impact when the individual puts himself only in front of these events and remains closed to himself, because in this case he may not be able to support the cause he believes in as required, and he has to enjoy a high moral and solidity of position and expression believing that this is what we succeeded in.
A recent global report on the digital reality in Jordan revealed that the number of users of all social media platforms in the Kingdom reached about 7 million active users.

Increased moderation and instances of censorship, especially in Russia, discouraged some users who valued free expression.

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Posts critical of authorities or dealing with sensitive topics were sometimes removed or frozen, prompting writers and online communities to leave for alternatives such as Telegram and Facebook.

What happened at the start of an unspecified war? (probably the war on Ukraine)

Today, LiveJournal continues to operate, but its primary user base is Russian-speaking.

After Russian users could no longer use foreign social networks, where did they post their blogs?

While it once set the standard for interactive online journaling and helped shape the development of contemporary social media, its influence declined with rising competition, ownership changes, and shifting content policies.

Nonetheless, its innovations—such as friends feeds, interactive communities, and open publishing—helped lay the foundation for the social platforms that followed.