Is a Permanent Account worth it?

[barondave]

I have a few days to decide, so I'll ask LJ Assembled: is it worth getting a Permanent Account.

Do you like the benefits?

Heck, at the moment I don't even have a Paid Account. A Perm is almost nine years of LJ, at current prices. Nine years ago I was on Usenet and just starting irc. Will LJ be around in nine years... or longer? Will they get rid of Free Accounts like mine, already grandfathered in? Will Lj be bought be someone who won't honor the Perm?

What do you get for your bucks? I don't care about userpics. Different styles don't do much for me. Being able to do polls is moderately tempting, and Friends of Friends listings are similarly tempting but still basically a toy.

I have hundreds of entries, and a lot of time invested. The pictures are all on my site, so I wouldn't lose any data, just all my apazines. But they're around, somewhere on the net.

So... sell me on a Permanent Account. Or convince me otherwise.

Comments

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I forgot about editing comments. That would be a plus.

I don't get ads now, but my type of account doesn't exist anymore except as a legacy. I'm worried the legacy will fall by the wayside.

And aren't paid accounts $19.95 a year?

One of the things that keeps me hopeful is that there are a staggering amount of similar, free, social networks. If LJ were to get to uppity, FaceBook or MySpace would get the business.

[judith-dascoyne.livejournal.com]

I got one