Yeah. A lot of my friends ditched LJ when G+ came out... The promptly ran screaming from that because a lot of them prefer to use "fake" names on the Internet.

And very few came back to LJ. I still use it but it feels more and more like I'm talking to myself there. Some super hardcore users among my friends just... stopped... writing longform blog stuff when they abandoned LJ.

I still think LJ really nailed the social/privacy stuff in a way Facebook, and everyone trying to improve on Facebook, has really failed to do.