LiveJournal
Sign in to saveLiveJournal (), formerly stylised as LiVEJOURNAL, is a Russian-owned social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal, or diary. American programmer Brad Fitzpatrick started LiveJournal on April 15, 1999, as a way of keeping his high school friends updated on his activities. In January 2005, American blogging software company Six Apart purchased Danga Interactive, the company that operated LiveJournal, from Fitzpatrick.
Key facts
- Website.name
- LiveJournal
- Website.logo
- LiveJournal icon.svg
- Website.logo_size
- 150px
- Website.logo_alt
- LiveJournal logo
- Website.screenshot
- LiveJournal homepage.png
- Website.screenshot_size
- 250px
- Website.caption
- LiveJournal homepage
- Website.commercial
- Yes
- Website.type
- Blog hosting
- Website.language
- 33 languages
- Website.owner
- Rambler Media Group
- Website.programming_language
- Perl
- Website.author
- Brad Fitzpatrick
- Website.current_status
- Online
- Website.registration
- Optional (required to post)
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
31 sectionsContents
- Features
- Community
- User interaction
- LiveJournal community
- Contributors
- Demographics
- Mascot: Frank the Goat
- Content
- Privacy
- Adult content
- Notable LiveJournals and users
- History
- Founding and eventual sale to Six Apart
- Sale to SUP Media
- Controversies and criticism
- The word "friend"
- Abuse Prevention Team decisions
- Account vulnerabilities
- LiveJournal and advertisements
- Account suspension
- Advisory board election
- Distributed denial-of-service attacks
- Presumed database breach
- Legal cases and censorship
- Lawsuits against bloggers
- LiveJournal blocking
- Russian jurisdiction
- Other sites running the LiveJournal engine
- See also
- References
- External links
LiveJournal (), formerly stylised as LiVEJOURNAL, is a Russian-owned social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal, or diary. American programmer Brad Fitzpatrick started LiveJournal on April 15, 1999, as a way of keeping his high school friends updated on his activities. In January 2005, American 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; the service continued to operate out of the U.S. via a California-based subsidiary, LiveJournal, Inc., but began moving some operations to Russian offices in 2009. In December 2016, the service relocated its servers to Russia, and in April 2017, LiveJournal changed its terms of service to conform to Russian law. As with other social networks, a wide variety of public figures use the service, as do political pundits, who use it for political commentary, particularly in Russia, where it partners with the online newspaper Gazeta.ru.