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LiveJournal / LJ, or , or Zhivoy Zhurnal ((ロシア語:Живой Журнал)) / ZheZhe ((ロシア語:ЖЖ)) in Russia, is a social networking service based in San Francisco, California, where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary.〔 〕 A wide variety of political pundits also use the service for political commentary, particularly in Russia,〔 where it partners with the online newspaper Gazeta.ru. As with many other social networks, a wide variety of public figures use the network. LiveJournal was started on April 15, 1999 by American programmer Brad Fitzpatrick as a way of keeping his high school friends updated on his activities. In January 2005, blogging software company Six Apart purchased Danga Interactive, the company that operated LiveJournal, from Fitzpatrick. Six Apart sold LiveJournal to Russian media company SUP Media in 2007, but continued to develop the site by the San Francisco-based company LiveJournal, Inc. In January 2009 LiveJournal laid off some employees and moved product development and design functions to Russia. ==Features== The unit of social networking on LiveJournal is quaternary (with four possible states of connection between one user and another). Two users can have no relationship, they can list each other as friends mutually, or either can "friend" the other without reciprocation. On LiveJournal, "friend" is also used as a verb to describe listing someone as a friend. The term "friend" on LiveJournal is mostly a technical term; however, because the term "friend" is emotionally loaded for many people, there have been discussions in such LiveJournal communities as ''lj_dev'' and ''lj_biz'', as well as ''suggestions'' about whether the term should be used in this way; this conflict is discussed in greater detail below. A user's list of friends (''friends list'', often shortened to ''flist'') will often include several communities and RSS feeds in addition to individual users. Generally, "friending" allows the friends of a user to read protected entries and causes the friends' entries to appear on the user's "friends page." Friends can also be grouped together in "friends groups," allowing for more complex behavior in both of these features. ; Features common to all accounts * Each journal entry has its own web page, which includes the comments left by other users. In addition, each user has a journal page, which shows all of his or her most recent journal entries, along with links to the comment pages. * The most distinctive feature of LiveJournal is the "friends list," which gives the site a strong social aspect in addition to the blog services. The friends list provides various syndication and privacy services as described below. Each user has a friends page, which collects the most recent journal entries of the people on his or her friends list. * LiveJournal allows users to customize their accounts in several ways. The S2 programming language allows journal templates to be modified by members. Users may upload graphical avatars, or "userpics," which appear next to the username in prominent areas as it would on an Internet forum. Paid account holders are given full access to S2 management and more userpics, as well as other features. * Each user also has a "User Info" page, which contains a variety of data including contact information, a biography, images (linked from off-site sources) and lists of friends, interests, communities and even schools which the user has attended in the past or is currently attending. * Currently LiveJournal has five account levels: basic (comprising approximately 95% of the network); plus (sponsored with more advertising); "early adopters" who were registered prior to 14 September 2000; paid and permanent. Permanent accounts are normally not available to the "average user;" there have been occasional sale days or special offers, but such sales are not guaranteed in the future. Prior to March 12, 2008, "basic" accounts were ad-free; in August, 2008, LiveJournal resumed new basic account creation but changed that account level to display ads to non-logged-in readers.〔This change first appeared (in the LiveJournal FAQ ), then, after being omitted from an (official LiveJournal news post discussing changes in the first 100 days of SUP ownership ), was itself the subject of a (later news post ). A LiveJournal spokesman said that LJ management (did not consider it necessary to inform users of this change ).〕 Basic users also see advertising, but not on other "basic" journals. *As well as allowing embedded videos from other sites, LiveJournal can host videos and allows users who have enabled the updated site design to post links to the hosted videos.〔Brouwer, Bree (January 22, 2015). ("LiveJournal Debuts Video Hosting, Comic Book Legend Stan Lee First To Upload" ). Tubefilter.〕〔(Video hosting is here! ), news.livejournal.com, January 22, 2015.〕 ;Paid account features * Sending Text Messages – users can receive text messages sent via LiveJournal without sharing their phone number. If the text messaging feature is set up, anyone (or any authorized user) can use LiveJournal to send text messages to the cellular phone by following a link on your User Info page. * "To-do list" feature – LiveJournal offers “to-do list” for managing users goals and aims. Users can have 150 to-do list items. Each to-do list item must have a subject, priority, details and descriptions, status, percent done, due date and categories field. * "Express Lane" – users with paid accounts have access to express lanes, that make pages load faster. When logged into your Paid or Permanent Account during times of heavy site load, your requests for LiveJournal pages are sent to the web servers before other users' requests. * "Voice Post" – members with paid accounts can call from any phone to a specific number, record the audio and upload it directly to their journal. * "Extra storage space" – implies that users can store more Scrapbook photos and voice posts. Photos and voice posts that have been uploaded there are very easy to include in the log entry. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「LiveJournal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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