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

[captainlucy.livejournal.com]

By and large, it's a public space. Anyone can read most of my posts and reply to them, though I do take the precaution of screening all comments from those not on my friends list.

Anything private, thats what the filters are for. Those people who want to use LJ as a private diary have the means at their disposal, if they chose not to use them I feel they don't really have much of a leg to stand on if they find people commenting on them.