There are friends of mine who are going over to Dreamwidth and leaving Livejournal. I was already planning to open a Dreamwidth account to keep in touch with them.

By having synchronous posting in both communities, I can post once and have that post read by both discrete groups of my friends.

We have begun to see the inevitable fragmentation of Livejournal's critical mass. Whatever I can do to keep my own personal community of friends connected to me -- especially when it ends up meaning no extra work on my part -- I'm going to do.

Does it make more logical sense now? :)