Two very important related factors:
The valuation of privacy, and the devaluation of history.
Example 1:
You're an adult with a career now. You mind your online presence much more closely. Also, it's much much harder to be anonymous on the internet, now that search engines can correlate almost everything you do and show those correlations to
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i've been here since 2006 and i might just well die here..
; )))
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; )))
oh yes, and one of my blogging friends just up and died, but his blog still exists, so go figure..
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But what do you mean about Facebook getting more 'transparency'?
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So there must be some middle ground still, where there are people in your social life that you trust enough to write intimate things to them, otherwise what's the point?
But couldn't those intimate conversations just happen over email, or in person?
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OTOH, yes, you can create levels of access. I have about 4 in my lj. Some texts are for relatives, or for very close friends. Or, ok, just for myself.
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That's the problem I'm having these days - there isn't a whole lot I can talk about "as it develops", i.e. before my opinions/emotions are settled about it and I can say what I really intend to say, or approve of saying.
It's the "as it develops" stuff that is often the most interesting for people to read, but it's also the most risky, or sometimes the most private.
I mean, god forbid some H.R. person would go browsing back through all this and find something that doesn't align with The Cultural Values Of The Company or something, and deny me a job...
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Of course some of it is true, some blogs have made a huge difference in some fields. Previously oppressed people now can have a voice. Still, those who want to damage you or profit from you have way too much material they can work with.
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The people who are old enough to remember what the internet used to be like, are in danger of assuming it's still that way, and making some stupid privacy-destroying mistake.
The younger generation has no illusions about how vulnerable they are, and no weird ideals about how online existence "should" go, so they lock things down, and tolerate oceans of garbage.
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I just joined lj after a long hiatus (5 - 6 years) as I was a lifer Open Diary member.
I was feeling nostalgic, back on od, My best friend and I essentially wrote entries for one another. Very cryptic; to the layman, most responses in comments where of the 'wtf' variety. That ended up amusing us greatly and both our od's took off from a popularity standpoint.
Long story short, he left the site, and our friendship came to an unexpected end. Obviously at that point, my heart wasn't in it to be funny or weird anymore. Not long after, od was gone and the era had ended.
Now, with work and stress and health issues etc... I find myself longing for those days, and so I joined here looking to rekindle a little of that magic (if at all possible) simply to benefit my own mental state.
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