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Ok. The people at livejournal are very intelligent and thoughtful folks and have kindly invented a very useful feature known as friends only. I use this friends only feature quite heavily - in fact I recently made my journal entirely friends only. This is:
a) to keep my feelings at least somewhat private
b) to prevent hurting people's feelings in the event I say something less than kind in one of my entries
I also have custom friends groups, so if there's certain entries that I don't want certain people to see, I can filter them.
I don't think it's difficult to figure these features out. You don't have to be a computer whiz. If you can successfully set up a facebook or myspace profile, or send an email, you can check the "friends only" box on livejournal. No big fucking deal.
Twice during the past few years I have read things in other people's journals about me that were so upsetting that I was in tears after I read them. And it wouldn't surprise me if some of the things I said about other people in my entries would make them cry too, if they read it.
This is the United States of fucking America, we have the right to bitch about people to our friends in private. We all do it, no matter how nice or mean we are as people. However, if you post anything about anyone else in your livejournal and do not make it private, there is a likely chance that they will see it.
Now, It is highly possible that this person made that entry public because they wanted me to see it, which I find to be very immature and malicious. It is also possible that they are ignorant. Or perhaps both.
But just as a warning to everyone to who uses livejournal, I'm going to post this entry publicly, So everyone can see it. It will be the last Public entry I will ever post. The only other public entry on this journal is the one that says "sorry, this LJ is friends only". And as always, it will stay that way.
But remember - the saying "sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never hurt me" is not true. Words do hurt. They hurt even more when posted on the internet for everyone to see.
thank you and good night.
a) to keep my feelings at least somewhat private
b) to prevent hurting people's feelings in the event I say something less than kind in one of my entries
I also have custom friends groups, so if there's certain entries that I don't want certain people to see, I can filter them.
I don't think it's difficult to figure these features out. You don't have to be a computer whiz. If you can successfully set up a facebook or myspace profile, or send an email, you can check the "friends only" box on livejournal. No big fucking deal.
Twice during the past few years I have read things in other people's journals about me that were so upsetting that I was in tears after I read them. And it wouldn't surprise me if some of the things I said about other people in my entries would make them cry too, if they read it.
This is the United States of fucking America, we have the right to bitch about people to our friends in private. We all do it, no matter how nice or mean we are as people. However, if you post anything about anyone else in your livejournal and do not make it private, there is a likely chance that they will see it.
Now, It is highly possible that this person made that entry public because they wanted me to see it, which I find to be very immature and malicious. It is also possible that they are ignorant. Or perhaps both.
But just as a warning to everyone to who uses livejournal, I'm going to post this entry publicly, So everyone can see it. It will be the last Public entry I will ever post. The only other public entry on this journal is the one that says "sorry, this LJ is friends only". And as always, it will stay that way.
But remember - the saying "sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never hurt me" is not true. Words do hurt. They hurt even more when posted on the internet for everyone to see.
thank you and good night.