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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[druidsfire.livejournal.com]

I personally flock most of my posts. The only ones that aren't are the playlists from my radio show, which gets a different userpic, and my tweets, which hardly anyone knows WTF I'm talking about in them anyway. I've disabled both anonymous and non-friend commenting as soon as I could find the commands to do so.

I've been opinionated enough to have made enemies who'd want to stomp around my LJ in cleats and make me upset. I simply choose not to give them the means. They can post their garbage on sites I don't read.

I used to do the custom filter in the past, but I was never quite sure what would happen if I did certain things to the posts in question. These days, I'd only use a custom filter to conspire against a friend or two in terms of getting them a present or doing something nice for them. I don't have time or the energy or the willingness to add to teh drawma by making a custom filter and then saying 'don't tell X person this stuff I'm about to say against them!' - cos someone always spills the beans anyway.

(And yet again, I'm blogging in this LJ at 6am my time...)