LiveJournaler

English

Etymology

From LiveJournal +‎ -er.

Noun

LiveJournaler (plural LiveJournalers)

(Internet) A user of the social networking service LiveJournal.
- 2006, The Advocate, page 34:
  “It sounds a little odd, but my first gay kiss, my first gay bar experience, my first gay friend—all a result of LiveJournal,” he says with a laugh. “And all with LiveJournalers.”
- 2007, Susan Herring et al., article; quoted in Paola Vettorel, “Bloggers as ELF users”, in English as a Lingua Franca in Wider Networking: Blogging Practices, De Gruyter Mouton, 2014, →ISBN, section 1 (LiveJournal.com), subsection 4 (Languages on LJ), page 103:
  Languages thus seemed to be employed also to a symbolic function, i.e. not necessarily in connection to the bloggers’ level of language proficiency: “the frequency of this practice suggests that many LiveJournalers, even those who lack the linguistic or non-verbal means to interact directly with speakers of other languages, are aware that LJ is a cosmopolitan environment, and orient to that fact, albeit superficially” (Herring et al. 2007: n.p.).
- 2007 March, Anastasia Goodstein, “Diaries Go Digital”, in Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, section “What Is a Blog?”, subsection “The Teen Blogging Landscape”, page 29:
  There isn’t definitive research on the differences between LiveJournal users and Xanga users, but the perception is that Xanga skews younger and is more popular with Asian teens while LiveJournalers tend to be more artsy or “emo.”
- 2008, Aldon Hynes, “A Coder Becomes a Political Activist”, in Mousepads, Shoe Leather, and Hope: Lessons from the Howard Dean Campaign for the Future of Internet Politics, Boulder, Colo., London: Paradigm Publishers, →ISBN, section “Discovering Dean: “The Real Thing””, page 88:
  Unfortunately, there weren’t enough LiveJournalers in my immediate area to have a Meetup, and it didn’t seem worth it to travel down to New York City for a LiveJournalers Meetup.
- 2008 April 29, Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, New York, N.Y.: Tor, published 2010, page 147:
  LiveJournalers love quizzes. What kind of hobbit are you? Are you a great lover? What planet are you most like? Which character from some movie are you? What's your emotional type? They fill them in and their friends fill them in and everyone compares their results. Harmless fun.
- 2009, Rebecca Bley, “RL on LJ: Fandom and the Presentation of Self in Online Life”, in Mary Kirby-Diaz, editor, Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom, Jefferson, N.C., London: McFarland & Company, part 2 (Sociological Perspectives on Fandoms), chapter section ““Opt-In Filters,” Pseudonyms, and the Role of the Audience”, page 58:
  Many LiveJournalers choose not to use real names when discussing people online, instead electing to assign pseudonyms or just initials.
- 2012, Ted Gaiser, Anthony Schreiner, “The World of Web 2.0: Blogs, Wikis and Websites”, in Jason Hughes, editor, SAGE Internet Research Methods (SAGE Library of Research Methods), volumes IV (Research ‘On’ and ‘In’ the Internet – Investigating the Online World), SAGE Publications, page 79:
  Specifying age groups helped ensure variation of age within the sample. This is important in light of suggestions that most bloggers are between the ages of 13 and 19 (Bortree, 2005; Henning, 2003) – a trend that is also reflected in the demographic characteristics of LiveJournal users. These criteria were met by using LiveJournal’s advanced search feature. For example, a search would be performed for LiveJournalers from Melbourne between the ages of 30–40 who had updated in the last month (at 4 April 2006, such a search produces about 270 blogs).
- 2017, Alexandra Franzen, You’re Going to Survive, Mango Publishing, →ISBN:
  Every LiveJournaler had their own style. Some people wrote exclusively about one topic. Others wrote about all kinds of things.
- 2020, Lena Buford, “A Journey through Two Decades of Online Diary Community”, in Batsheva Ben-Amos, Dan Ben-Amos, editors, The Diary: The Epic of Everyday Life, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 437:
  TheFerrett is the fifth-most popular LiveJournaler of all time as of July 2016.

Synonyms

LJer