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dreamer_easy) wrote2008-12-14 07:35 pm
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How private is your LJ?
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?
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I think the fact that people use their journals for different things causes a lot of problems with people who aren't *aware* that everyone use theirs for something different - one person's blog of carefully-considered essays is someone else's braindump and venting station, and apparently it's not always obvious which is which.
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... it's amazing how fast these things can build, isn't it? I mean, I barely gave any thought to the rant itself, I was just having a RAH WILL PEOPLE STOP PLACING THEIR PERSONAL POLITICS ABOVE TELLING A GOOD STORY and it went demented. I keep forgetting that just because story is more important than anything else to me, doesn't mean that other people's value systems are so dismissive of the real world. *sigh*
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Next time, I swear, interpretative dance. Dancing.