How private is your LJ?

[dreamer_easy]

Do you consider your LJ to be your private space, or a public arena, or somewhere between the two? I think of mine as very public, and flock anything I don't want to share with the universe, but I often bump up against people who consider their LJs to be much more of a personal space, and don't want the likes of me friending them, disagreeing with them, etc. I think that attitude is understandable and try to respect it; but it's not always obvious that this is someone's attitude, and suddenly I'm right where they don't want me, ie, in their face. who_daily has caused a bit of trouble now and again by linking to folks who didn't expect the whole of fandom to suddenly turn up in their journal, and who weren't actually looking for a debate, thank you very much. So tell me: how public do you consider your LJ to be?

Comments

[randomling]

Complex, as I have three journals. This one is my personal journal, and as such is full of private information and very personnal ramblings. I mostly keep it flocked and consider it a private space.

I also have a fannish journal (I separated out by request from some of my non-fannish friends) which is mostly public, though I do flock some posts, mostly about my writing. That's mostly because I want my fannish activities to my accessible to people who are in my fandom but not on my flist, which does not comprise All Of Fandom - so, public entries it is. I'd be a bit surprised to find that people outside my fandom, or people who are totally non-fannish, were reading that journal, but not particularly offended. (My major fandom is popslash, and so small that I'd be incapable of getting descended on by thousands of angry fans. If I write an angry rant about Who fandom, which is rare, I tend to flock it - go figure.)

And then there is my fic journal. Totally public, nothing locked, and all I post is fiction. When I start finishing and posting original stuff, I suppose I'll need to decide whether to make a fourth (!) journal to keep it separate from my fannish identity, or stick it all over on the fic journal. In any case, I consider that to be totally public - although, again, I'd be surprised if non-fannish people stumbled across it and started to read all the gay porn about pop stars. 'Cause really, that's sort of special-interest, isn't it?