While I remember all that, I didn't experience any of it directly -- in part because I didn't provide them with a link to my FB account (so they couldn't link it) and a lot of those changes didn't happen until around 2007. Granted FB didn't arrive for non-collegiate folks until around 2008. So between 2003-2006, LJ was pretty decent. Then the software engineers running it got bored and greedy, and well...