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

[rarelylynne.livejournal.com]

I generally assume that anything I post is public. Same with email or any other electronic form of communication. It's way too easy to copy and paste.

I just inherently understand that the Internet is a public place, and you never know who will see your stuff. So I manage my public "self" carefully.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Same here. I once attended a talk given by a private investigator who explained that it is possible to get a ridiculous amount of info about people's RLs through the internet, all legally. That's one of many reasons I'm wary of joining Facebook: it encourages this sort of dissemination of t.m.i.

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

That's one of the reasons my facebook account is on friends only there too - I can control who sees it and I don't give out too much info on my profile.

I'm there to play the silly games.