A Privacy Matter
I was watching an episode of Khawaterthe other day, titled: You are Watched, where they talk about the importance of privacy when you are online. They did a funny social experiment which was picking some people from the street and asking them random questions about their lives, relatives, family, relationship, works and such stuff. Their facial expressions were really hilarious when they were freaking out, they were like; "WHO ARE YOU?! AND HOW DO YOU KNOW ALL THIS ABOUT ME!" Their fear was obvious, in the end, they were relieved and shocked in the same time, cause they source of all those personal information was their public facebook accounts. The episode was really funny, if you want to watch it go [here]and enable the CC for English subtitle.
Now this thing got me thinking, even though I always pay attention to privacy when I'm online, my journal & Instagram are public even though my facebook is totally private (friends only). But still I find it kinda ironic cause here I write about my life in like posts and detailed sorta way if you may say. Then again, these are just talks and facebook has the real personal information about me. Like real REAL. Now, if ever someone I don't know came up to me out of the blue and said; "I know you got better in doing hollow rock!" Or "You visited festivals X, Y and Z!" Or "Your name is Asma and you are studying Japanese!" I'll know right away he probably read my journal and won't freak out. Okay, maybe not freak out on how he knew those things about me, but would be a bit worried about what he wants from me!!!?
The point is, I'm thinking of livejournal's privacy. Is it something I should enable!?
Should I make my posts friends only?!I dunno.
Cause my journal is just a journal. Its main point is just to write my thoughts and see how far I came in any journey I take. So is my instagram. Only photos I liked and bunch of places I attended with a lot of people. Like when there's a fair and stuff like that. I don't write anything related to work, nor did in the past or willing to do in the future. I don't write about my (family drama), didn't even mention any of my siblings' names or the people I hang out with. The problems I write are just the usual ones that anybody can face, delay, no luck, didn't find any job - all these aren't that much of a personal matter. Like they aren't my deepest darkest secret, you know - hehe. I do have an un-pretty past (to put it in a non-dramatic way, and yes! I know that un-pretty isn't a real word but whatevs). I like my journal to be open for anyone, so if ever they read my posts and love what I write, they can add me up. It's just my workouts, events, my craft works, Japanese, how my day went with few thoughts from here and there. Can't find any deal to make it private. Plus, till today I'm not sure how the friend thing works. Some people's journal are private but once they add me, I can see their posts. So I don't know, if I made mine private then one day removed a user, will my posts be private to him?! Not sure. Also, if it's about bad comments, I believe I only got it once and those don't really bother me. Ignoring & block does the trick.
So for those who have private journals, can you please mention the reason(s) why you made it friends only?!
And if that's too perosnal to answer, then can you name any reason one should consider private journal!? Maybe I missed something here.
Thank you for your thoughts in advance.