I'm confused
Apr. 12th, 2004 01:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maderrI was cruising around for new story comms (if you can rec any, I'll love you forever) and what I noticed instead were a lot of ljs with something remarkably odd in common, a variation of the following statement:
"If you want to read my journal then friend me and I'll friend you back if I think you're interesting. I'm not really comfortable with everyone reading my words and thoughts, that's why this is friend's only."
Now, I know plenty of good reason to restrict an lj - but the above doesn't strike me as one of them. I thought the whole point of an lj was to be rather public with your thoughts? If you don't want strangers reading what you're thinking/feeling, shouldn't you just not post it? I gaurentee there are plenty of things I leave unsaid b/c I don't want them on stage, so to speak. Otherwise I find the whole thing rather soothing - I do better when I can blather and vent (and I'm probably something of an attention whore, but imho everyone with an lj likes attention to some degree).
Okay, I'm going to bed now. That just always irks me, perhaps because while they're writing "I don't want everyone to see this" they're really thinking LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME!!
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"If you want to read my journal then friend me and I'll friend you back if I think you're interesting. I'm not really comfortable with everyone reading my words and thoughts, that's why this is friend's only."
Now, I know plenty of good reason to restrict an lj - but the above doesn't strike me as one of them. I thought the whole point of an lj was to be rather public with your thoughts? If you don't want strangers reading what you're thinking/feeling, shouldn't you just not post it? I gaurentee there are plenty of things I leave unsaid b/c I don't want them on stage, so to speak. Otherwise I find the whole thing rather soothing - I do better when I can blather and vent (and I'm probably something of an attention whore, but imho everyone with an lj likes attention to some degree).
Okay, I'm going to bed now. That just always irks me, perhaps because while they're writing "I don't want everyone to see this" they're really thinking LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME!!
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