Live-Journal is an online social network created by Brad Fitzpatrick on April 15th, 1999 in San Francisco. It affords users a platform for self expression through blogs, journals, or diaries, and an environment to connect with others.
Similar to a blog, each account on Live-Journal has a home page, exhibiting the user’s entries and comments they have received. Privacy it ensured in such a way that the users get to edit their friend list and set viewer restrictions. This way, Live-Journal acts more or less like a diary.
There are free, as well as paid accounts on Live-Journal. Paid members earn the advantage of sending text messages, voice notes, and extra storage, as well as an access to the ‘Express Lane’, making the Live-Journal experience more effective.
Fitzpatrick started it off as an online community to stay in touch with his schoolmates, and keeping them updated. Soon the venture was established commercially, and the company was named Danga Interactive. It turned out so successful that by 2012, there were over 10 million people across the globe using Live-Journal. At present, Live-Journal is partnered with an online newspaper (Gazeta.ru) in Russia.
