Editing LiveJournal (section)

{{Short description|Russian social networking service}}
{{Infobox website
| name = LiveJournal
| logo = LiveJournal icon.svg
| logo_size = 150px
| logo_alt = LiveJournal logo
| screenshot = LiveJournal homepage.png
| screenshot_size = 250px
| caption = LiveJournal homepage
| url = {{URL|https://www.livejournal.com/|livejournal.com}}
| commercial = Yes
| type = [[Blog hosting]]
| language = 33 languages
| owner = [[Rambler (portal)|Rambler Media Group]]
| programming_language = [[Perl]]<ref name="NYT"/>
| author = [[Brad Fitzpatrick]]
| launch_date = {{start date and age|1999|4|15}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://whois.domaintools.com/livejournal.com|title=LiveJournal.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools|work=[[WHOIS]]|access-date=2016-12-09|archive-date=2020-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413074811/https://whois.domaintools.com/livejournal.com|url-status=live}}</ref>
| current_status = Online
| registration = Optional (required to post<!--One may write comment without registration — Russian User of LJ-->)
}}

'''LiveJournal''' ({{langx|ru|Живой Журнал}}),<ref name=bbc-zhezhe>{{cite news |url=http://bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17177053 |title=LiveJournal: Russia's unlikely internet giant |date=2012-03-01 |first=Robert |last=Greenall |work=BBC News |access-date=2012-03-05 |archive-date=2012-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305001123/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17177053 |url-status=live }}</ref> stylised as '''LiVEJOURNAL''', is a Russian-owned [[social networking service]] where users can keep a [[blog]], journal, or [[diary]].<ref name="macworld_weblogs">{{Cite news | last=Hacker | first=Scot | title=Put Weblogs to Work| newspaper=[[Macworld]] | volume=9 | year=2003}}</ref> American programmer [[Brad Fitzpatrick]] started LiveJournal on April 15, 1999, as a way of keeping his high school friends updated on his activities.<ref name="FAQ4">{{cite web |url=http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=4&view=full |title=LiveJournal FAQ: How did LiveJournal get started? Who runs it now? |publisher=Livejournal.com |date=2009-06-21 |access-date=2010-03-29 |archive-date=2006-03-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060318105724/http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=4&view=full |url-status=live }}</ref> 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 [[pundit]]s, who use it for [[political commentary]], particularly in Russia,<ref name=bbc-zhezhe /> where it partners with the online newspaper ''[[Gazeta.ru]]''.