It does look like a very stable, solid place for a fan to nest. *g* I think your reasons make sense, and like I said above, I never expected LJ to be my permanent "home" (in fact, I'm surprised at how much of a "home" I've made for myself here).

Your last point, though -- that's really interesting to me! I guess I've just been assuming that something would eventually take over from blogs, just as Usenet and the old listserv-style mailing lists gave way to message boards and Yahoo group-type lists, which gave way to blogs. But now that the Internet's become such an institution (it's been a generation, almost), maybe the rapid change is starting to taper off; maybe we are, if not at a steady state, then at a point where we're likely to see refinement of what's already there more than the rise of something new and different. Hmmm...