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azurelunatic) wrote2002-06-04 08:11 am
azurelunatic) wrote2002-06-04 08:11 am
Copy/paste; edit of a comment: Why LJ?
I started my LJ because Dennis K, the best friend of my friend Darkside, had one, and at the time I was trying to flirt with him. (Didn't work out.) He dropped his; by then I'd already gotten addicted.
I started journaling when I was in the 5th grade when the Gulf War started, so my children would know what I was thinking during an important point in history. (I'd been reading Rilla of Ingleside too much.) My handwriting then was abysmal.
I continued journaling to keep track of memories and dreams, and then to track the changes in my personality. Fascinating, really, especially for abnormal psychologists...
I like LJ because I like stripping in public. I like the thought of my thoughts and words being made available to a wide audience; I like the idea of being able to choose who sees which entries.
I don't use the friends protection very often; I rarely use the private protection for things other than marking my place in my current online reading material (if catching up on an archived webcomic, very necessary, but not really of interest to LJ readers) and writing drafts of posts (no need to flood several progressively better versions of the same thought out). Occasionally there will be personal information stored in my journal, such as my customer information for Dell (no need to make this public) or contact information of friends, especially temporary information. This logs when it was that I got it, as well as keeping it available to me for the duration that I need it. Every now and then I put in something that a friend's told me in confidence; the fact that it's in there on private will be reminder to me that this should be kept to myself and myself alone.
Friends filtered posts are interesting as well. When certain former friends were on my friends list, I locked them out of certain posts. More specific filters get made for different subjects. If talking about a potentially squickful subject that's really personal, I do filter when locking, often. I also filter for private discussion between just two or three people, where we can take off our online identities and talk person to person. More immediate and casual than e-mail, I find.
I had plans to publish my paper journal after my death, once upon a time. I should perhaps type up the back entries and archive them here. Conveniently, the earliest date that LJ accepts is 1980; that's when I was born. I can choose which entries to make public.
I find for the long entries that I wish to keep private, I still use pen and paper. Habit, I suppose. I've only showed my paper journals to a select few people. My high school best friend Shawn was one of them; Darkside, another.
I started journaling when I was in the 5th grade when the Gulf War started, so my children would know what I was thinking during an important point in history. (I'd been reading Rilla of Ingleside too much.) My handwriting then was abysmal.
I continued journaling to keep track of memories and dreams, and then to track the changes in my personality. Fascinating, really, especially for abnormal psychologists...
I like LJ because I like stripping in public. I like the thought of my thoughts and words being made available to a wide audience; I like the idea of being able to choose who sees which entries.
I don't use the friends protection very often; I rarely use the private protection for things other than marking my place in my current online reading material (if catching up on an archived webcomic, very necessary, but not really of interest to LJ readers) and writing drafts of posts (no need to flood several progressively better versions of the same thought out). Occasionally there will be personal information stored in my journal, such as my customer information for Dell (no need to make this public) or contact information of friends, especially temporary information. This logs when it was that I got it, as well as keeping it available to me for the duration that I need it. Every now and then I put in something that a friend's told me in confidence; the fact that it's in there on private will be reminder to me that this should be kept to myself and myself alone.
Friends filtered posts are interesting as well. When certain former friends were on my friends list, I locked them out of certain posts. More specific filters get made for different subjects. If talking about a potentially squickful subject that's really personal, I do filter when locking, often. I also filter for private discussion between just two or three people, where we can take off our online identities and talk person to person. More immediate and casual than e-mail, I find.
I had plans to publish my paper journal after my death, once upon a time. I should perhaps type up the back entries and archive them here. Conveniently, the earliest date that LJ accepts is 1980; that's when I was born. I can choose which entries to make public.
I find for the long entries that I wish to keep private, I still use pen and paper. Habit, I suppose. I've only showed my paper journals to a select few people. My high school best friend Shawn was one of them; Darkside, another.
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