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?

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[karjack.livejournal.com]

I assume few people read my LJ outside of my friends anyway, I've learned that if you make something public, there is a chance it'll get around. I made an off the cuff post about my response to Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog, never expecting anyone outside my f-list to read it, but I made it public because it wasn't saying anything terribly private. It drew several hundred comments from total strangers and was linked to many places outside of LJ. It blew me away.

I still make plenty of public posts, but I do so knowing any one of them could end up anywhere. It doesn't matter if I think it's a piffling nonsense post or not. You just never know what's going to catch someone's attention. My rule is if I don't want it showing up on boingboing, put it behind a f-lock.