Top reasons for using LiveSpace

It sounds a bit ridiculous that I publish this article at Blogger. Well, before read this article you need to understand my special situation. 1. my native language is Chinese 2. my great social network is in China 3. I am not in China.

There are many blog service providers，such as LiveSpace, MySpace, Blogger, Yahoo360... recently some Chinese local blog service provider are getting popular, e.g. sina, sohu, wretch... you may also host yourown blog using tools such as WordPress. Which is your favorite? Or you are a geek who has an account at each providr? I am still using LiveSpace as my main Blog, here is just an English version. Comparing with other Blog services, LiveSpace is not flexible, not powerful, not open, not really easy to use. But, I am still using it and will be using it. Here I state my top reasons:

• In LiveSpace you may setup permission. No matter your blog is public or private, it's easy to setup. 
• To attract more readers, you should choose a famous service provider. LiveSpace is a good choice. Thanks the huge marketing of msn messenger.
• Almost all of my friends are using live messenger. Only few friends working in IT use gtalk,skype,yahoo,icq,aol,iChat etc. Many Chinese use qq however I do not use it. 
• Not everyone knows the best way to read blogs. Do not expect everyone knows RSS. The advantage of LiveSpace is that it will indicate update to your contact on messenger.
• Of course the indicator is only for those who use windows version of messenger. But Linux and Mac users know and use RSS. This is not an issue.
• The powerful GFWChina alway block good websites, even Blogger. So this blog is not accessible from China. We always need to worry about that someday the blog provider or hosting will be blocked. LiveSpace doesn't have this issue so far. 
• If I choose a local service, I may not be able to access it, or it becomes very slow. 
• LiveSpace can auto translate the headings. For my friends who can not read Chinese, this is at least something they can read. 
• I wrote my first blog entry there. I have been using it for so long. Don't see any good reason to move. 
• LiveSpace is getting better, now it supports gadget,feeds and embed video. Maybe someday we can even edit the code.
• LiveSpace has advantege in search results.

OK. These are reasons, my own reasons. I am not a Microsoft or Windows fan, but I must admit that Microsoft made great contributions to our life.

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