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# Even George RR Martin has left Livejournal
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2018/05/even-george-rr-martin-has-left-livejournal/
- Published: 2018-05-21T11:45:14.000Z
- Updated: 2018-05-21T11:45:14.000Z
- Description: The last big user of the first platform I used has quit: Livejournal is not what it used to be.
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: livejournal, Blogging, blog platforms

A very, very long-time ago, I [blogged for the very first time](https://adders.livejournal.com/2001/11/03/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) on a platform called LiveJournal. A young man called [Mark Zuckerberg was a user](http://www.slate.com/articles/news%5Fand%5Fpolitics/hot%5Fdocument/features/2007/the%5Fdiaries%5Fof%5Ffacebooks%5Ffounder/%5F2.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), too. He "borrowed" some ideas from it for his product, thefacebook. I wonder whatever happened to that?

All these years on, Livejournal still exists and it is still used, even though it's now Russian-owned and run.

But its last, great [user has left the building](https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/14/george-r-r-martin-the-last-great-livejournal-user-leaves-it/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> In the mid-aughts, LiveJournal was one of the top blogging services, and many a teen poured out their emotions on the site's digital pages. But little did the world know that in 2005, a popular-in-his-genre fantasy writer would join the platform and continuously blog long after the world moved on. *Game of Thrones*' George R.R. Martin spent the next 13 years updating fans on his life and times, keeping a casual record even as his fame skyrocketed alongside the increasingly-popular HBO show based on his book series. But *valar morghulis*, and so too must blogs: Martin has killed his LiveJournal.

He's not abandoned blogging, though. [Not a Blog lives on](http://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) on his own website.