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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[hergrace.livejournal.com]

On the whole I consider my LJ space to be that -- *my* LJ space. I also tend to be a rather private person, so most of my entries are flocked so that only people I consider friends (or very friendly acquaintances) can read them.

Then again, I don't post much, so I'm a relatively boring person anyway. If I want to get controversial, it'll generally be in a discussion that's already underway, or it will be something I'm absolutely passionate about. In general, though, I'm pretty tame, as is my LJ.