mini-poll

[dancingyel]

am considering making this journal, from now on, friends-only, since i already am locking a fair percentage of the things i post. what do you guys think?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

fine by me

[myrn.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA! right, that was me. gotta love irony

[dancingyel.livejournal.com]

hehehe. oh, thomas. you crack me up without fail.

how are you doing, by the way/

it depends

[owens888.livejournal.com]

On whether you want people to know that you're making your journal friends-only. If you have only old posts showing, then people can sort of tell that you're restricting your posts. If you have the occasional one showing, then people won't be so suspicious about the life you're hiding :P

Re: it depends

[hukuma.livejournal.com]

BTW, you have to know where to look, but on LJ you can find out if someone is posting entries you don't have access to.

Re: it depends

[dancingyel.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's true...i guess if i made the journal friends-only, i wouldn't really mind people knowing it. the problem is filtered posts, where some people have access but not others. that's a whole separate issue, though.

Re: it depends

[owens888.livejournal.com]

In the archive? - Or, rather, if the calendar says that the person posted something that day, but you can't access it?

Re: it depends

[hukuma.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you can also see in the user info when the last post was made, regardless of whether you're allowed to read it or not...

Re: it depends

[dancingyel.livejournal.com]

well, i don't mind people knowing it was friends-only...i'd probably post something in my info or in a post that would always appear at the top that would say that the journal was mostly locked. the life i'm hiding? heh. that's great.

[hukuma.livejournal.com]

I like having some public content. That way people who don't know me very well can read my journal for a while and learn a bit about me, even if they don't get the protected content. The flip side is public means really public, as in your friends, parents, coworkers, and eventually maybe even children, can all read what you wrote.

[dancingyel.livejournal.com]

that's a really good point. i do like having posts that are around for people to read, even if those posts aren't totally representative of my journal. i think i'm not gonna end up locking this journal completely, but i'm gonna be much more careful of what i post publically and what i lock.

[bunnypie.livejournal.com]

i say, don't censor yourself, and stay public=) it's more fun and random that way.

[dancingyel.livejournal.com]

heh...fun and random is true. i worry about the privacy thing, though...but i guess that's solved by the occasional friends-lock.

are you free for dinner on friday?

[bunnypie.livejournal.com]

http://www.frjtzfries.com/

nik and i are meeting at embarcadero to take the cable car down to fishermans wharf!

Re: are you free for dinner on friday?

[dancingyel.livejournal.com]

heh...just got this comment (it's sunday). ah, well...maybe next time?

Re: are you free for dinner on friday?

[bunnypie.livejournal.com]

actually...it's this friday, the 14th!

and oh yea, i randomly thought something today, about the privacy thing. i do think it's kinda weird that we write about the boys we date and they can read it...

Re: are you free for dinner on friday?

[dancingyel.livejournal.com]

oh, this friday is a different story! hehe...i hadn't chekced email all weekend, so i figured i had just missed the comment. the 14th, i'm free as far as i can tell. i'll keep the date open!

it is kinda weird to write about boys where they can see...my boy doesn't have an lj, so if i lock things, he can't read it...but then i feel kinda bad for posting locked things when i really don't mind if he reads them. at the same time, it's strange to know that he can read my obsessing over random details.