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

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

IIUC from the userinfo, who_daily will link to anything you don't ask them to link to, though of course you can also ask them to add you to their watch list, alert them to individual postings, etc. More than one person has been caught out by an unexpected influx of visitors - there are 3300 people watching who_daily!

... wait a minute - drho is one of the mods! My gods, talk about being hoist by one's own petard. :(

[dameruth.livejournal.com]

You're right -- the userinfo indicates that they do trawl and post anything DW-related that they spot. Guess I either never checked their userinfo, or misremembered what was in it. My belief that you needed to request their attention is based on that header to all their posts, the one about:

"Do you have a Doctor Who community or a journal that we are not currently linking to? Leave a note in the comments and we'll add you to the who_daily reading list."

To me, that implied participation required signup, but I was only reading *part* of the FM, as it were. What was that you were saying about checking facts and posting on the net and all that . . .? :D