I think Tumblr and LJ retains a certain intimacy and quality of content, as opposed to twitter or facebook.
There, entries get swept away into oblivion.
Not so, for here.
Also, not a new phenomena - but the baiting for sympathy, compliments and approval over the slightest trivialities on facebook is getting quite annoying.
That’s a double standard for you
It’s phony that one would bemoan copyright issues and the integrity of one’s creation yet when the same person quotes others, sources are not evidently stated.