Friends Only?
I'm considering making my journal mostly friends only.
Some things, like random announcements and con reports, can stay unlocked because I want them to get streamed to Facebook without having to copy-paste everything, but others...
I recently wrote a very ranty entry about my job and money issues, as I already explained in my more-recent and locked post, this was a way for me to vent, a way to get my issues out without turning to something more extreme, I've always done it this way, just for once I thought maybe, hey, I won't bother locking it, it's just a rant, whatever.
Stupidest. Decision. Ever.
From my friends on Livejournal I got nothing but support, this is to be expected and I love them for that, from Facebook...
First I got a note from my dad's wife, he had come up in my rant you see, and that made me go 'ah..crap'. Luckily for me she said she wouldn't say anything to him, and just offered support.
I'm a little 'heh, whoops' about it, but given that she's been nice I think 'ok, no harm, no foul'
Next I get a snarky message from my aunt about being a drama queen and joining the 'real world of grown ups' - this irritates me somewhat, I make a semi-annoyed, semi-jokey reply and then go rant about the tendency of adults to belittle the problems of anyone younger than them, as seen in that more recent locked post I spoke about.
And finally, I get a message from my other aunt, calling me cheeky, rude, calling me on my 'atrocious language', claiming "with your attitude to life I wouldn't give you a job either"
Because one stressed out rant is entirely indicative of a person's attitude to life, yup.
I'm not going to go into that, it really really upset me, but I'm not going to bother responding to it because I'm sure if the aunt in question reads my response she'll have some belittling, degrading reply, probably claiming I don't know anything about life and should listen to my elders, yada yada.
Because my elders know exactly how I should be living my life because they know so much about me and my problems...and I'm going to stop right there before I start ranting again.
So in short, TL;DR, not locking my personal entries has given me nothing but grief, what's the point in telling these people anything about my life and problems if they're just going to react like this, so I'm considering making my journal friends only.
Does anybody have any thoughts? You all know what I'm like with decisions.
Some things, like random announcements and con reports, can stay unlocked because I want them to get streamed to Facebook without having to copy-paste everything, but others...
I recently wrote a very ranty entry about my job and money issues, as I already explained in my more-recent and locked post, this was a way for me to vent, a way to get my issues out without turning to something more extreme, I've always done it this way, just for once I thought maybe, hey, I won't bother locking it, it's just a rant, whatever.
Stupidest. Decision. Ever.
From my friends on Livejournal I got nothing but support, this is to be expected and I love them for that, from Facebook...
First I got a note from my dad's wife, he had come up in my rant you see, and that made me go 'ah..crap'. Luckily for me she said she wouldn't say anything to him, and just offered support.
I'm a little 'heh, whoops' about it, but given that she's been nice I think 'ok, no harm, no foul'
Next I get a snarky message from my aunt about being a drama queen and joining the 'real world of grown ups' - this irritates me somewhat, I make a semi-annoyed, semi-jokey reply and then go rant about the tendency of adults to belittle the problems of anyone younger than them, as seen in that more recent locked post I spoke about.
And finally, I get a message from my other aunt, calling me cheeky, rude, calling me on my 'atrocious language', claiming "with your attitude to life I wouldn't give you a job either"
Because one stressed out rant is entirely indicative of a person's attitude to life, yup.
I'm not going to go into that, it really really upset me, but I'm not going to bother responding to it because I'm sure if the aunt in question reads my response she'll have some belittling, degrading reply, probably claiming I don't know anything about life and should listen to my elders, yada yada.
Because my elders know exactly how I should be living my life because they know so much about me and my problems...and I'm going to stop right there before I start ranting again.
So in short, TL;DR, not locking my personal entries has given me nothing but grief, what's the point in telling these people anything about my life and problems if they're just going to react like this, so I'm considering making my journal friends only.
Does anybody have any thoughts? You all know what I'm like with decisions.