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First, important news. My phone battery is giving out. I am probably going to be incommunicado until I can get a new phone. I will be checking Facebook, Webmail, and here for messages, so hopefully I won't miss anything essential.
Second, important date. The FIFTH OF JUNE is when I finish Finals, and become young, free and very drunk.
Also, Peter finishes the day before so we might have a joint celebration. If you can, I'd love you to come along and join the celebrating.
Third - a decision I've come to.
I intend to start friends-locking my posts. I've had a couple of anonymous comments on ancient posts, and while they were nothing scary, only a bit confusing, I have basic objections to internet anonymity. (Obviously I have no problem with comments from friends who don't have LJs, but I imagine anyone whom I knew would sign what they said).
I was on the receiving end of some pretty harsh personal remarks on Oxford Gossip a couple of years ago when I was LB Rep for my college. I freely admit I was rubbish at it, but criticism of the way I worked spilled over into personal abuse and became really hurtful.
I came to the conclusion then that anonymous posting is not worth paying attention to. It is secure and has no possibility of comeback or response. This enables people to say things they wouldn't necessarily say if they were going to be identified with their comments. The worst case scenario is that someone can be as hurtful/unpleasant as they like, and take no responsibility for it.
Up to now I've been pretty easy with the general public reading what I write, and possibly I'm over-reacting, but I don't want to be open to that sort of confidence-bruising again.
So in future, this will be flist-locked.
Second, important date. The FIFTH OF JUNE is when I finish Finals, and become young, free and very drunk.
Also, Peter finishes the day before so we might have a joint celebration. If you can, I'd love you to come along and join the celebrating.
Third - a decision I've come to.
I intend to start friends-locking my posts. I've had a couple of anonymous comments on ancient posts, and while they were nothing scary, only a bit confusing, I have basic objections to internet anonymity. (Obviously I have no problem with comments from friends who don't have LJs, but I imagine anyone whom I knew would sign what they said).
I was on the receiving end of some pretty harsh personal remarks on Oxford Gossip a couple of years ago when I was LB Rep for my college. I freely admit I was rubbish at it, but criticism of the way I worked spilled over into personal abuse and became really hurtful.
I came to the conclusion then that anonymous posting is not worth paying attention to. It is secure and has no possibility of comeback or response. This enables people to say things they wouldn't necessarily say if they were going to be identified with their comments. The worst case scenario is that someone can be as hurtful/unpleasant as they like, and take no responsibility for it.
Up to now I've been pretty easy with the general public reading what I write, and possibly I'm over-reacting, but I don't want to be open to that sort of confidence-bruising again.
So in future, this will be flist-locked.