First, Only, and Last Public Entry
My journal is friends only.
I started this web journal because I can type much faster than I can write. I started it at a time when I needed a place to write and get things off my chest so that I could sort them out. Since this journal's inception, I've made real life LJ friends, found long-lost real-life friends, and some of my non-LJ friends have learned of my journal.
When I was "anonymous" I felt comfortable posting out in the open. My anonymity is not what it used to be; I don't like the idea of splaying my innermost thoughts, and feelings out on the table for just anyone to read. To me, it feels like someone has wandered into your house to browse around, leaf through your mail, thumb through the clothes. All the while, the wanderer is taking note of the cobwebs, the occasional pile of dirty laundry, checking the fridge and the medicine cabinets-- and sometimes when they're done, they can't wait to get home so they can tell everyone what they've just seen.
I'm just not interested in that sort of experience. So, if you'd like to be added to my friends list, please add me to yours first and introduce yourself by sending an email or commenting here. Just adding me and expecting me to add you back is not the way to go about joining my world, and I normally will not add people back if this is the case.
A "hi, how are you" or some sort of other formal introduction will go a long way in cyberspace. Just beacuse this is a web journal does not mean that the rules of decency and friendship go out the window.
As my mom always told me when I was little, "To have a friend, you have to be one first." :)
I started this web journal because I can type much faster than I can write. I started it at a time when I needed a place to write and get things off my chest so that I could sort them out. Since this journal's inception, I've made real life LJ friends, found long-lost real-life friends, and some of my non-LJ friends have learned of my journal.
When I was "anonymous" I felt comfortable posting out in the open. My anonymity is not what it used to be; I don't like the idea of splaying my innermost thoughts, and feelings out on the table for just anyone to read. To me, it feels like someone has wandered into your house to browse around, leaf through your mail, thumb through the clothes. All the while, the wanderer is taking note of the cobwebs, the occasional pile of dirty laundry, checking the fridge and the medicine cabinets-- and sometimes when they're done, they can't wait to get home so they can tell everyone what they've just seen.
I'm just not interested in that sort of experience. So, if you'd like to be added to my friends list, please add me to yours first and introduce yourself by sending an email or commenting here. Just adding me and expecting me to add you back is not the way to go about joining my world, and I normally will not add people back if this is the case.
A "hi, how are you" or some sort of other formal introduction will go a long way in cyberspace. Just beacuse this is a web journal does not mean that the rules of decency and friendship go out the window.
As my mom always told me when I was little, "To have a friend, you have to be one first." :)