Conundrum
So obviously I post here pretty rarely.
Tonight, I spent a couple of hours composing two rants about gay-marriage-related current events, and I posted them on my Facebook. I do not normally do that kind of thing on Facebook because Facebook doesn't seem like the right forum for that; LJ does. But I haven't posted that kind of thing on LJ because the conversations about these events aren't going on at LJ, at least as far as I can see, because I also read LJ pretty rarely. I wanted to post my rants as part of the conversations about these events, so I posted on Facebook.
It felt good getting that stuff off my chest! And one of my friends said, "You should start a blog."
But I have a blog: this one! And now I kind of want to think about blogging the kind of stuff like I posted tonight. But I'm not sure I want to post it here.
I never really considered this blog "private" since it's on the Internet. But I also have declined to post the link on my Facebook, because there is a lot of personal gut-spilling on here, and there are a lot of people on my Facebook that I wouldn't have added to LJ or given my URL back in the days before Facebook. Facebook is just a different animal. I mean, do I really want my co-workers reading about my religious struggles, or watching my mom die? And some people on my Facebook have been mentioned on my LJ, with or without their real names.
Yeah, as I type this, I'm realizing that if I want to have a blog I'll connect to Facebook, which is kind of like my "real life," it can't be this one. Unless I just friends-lock everything before today. That kind of makes me sad, though. I've had this LJ for ten years! I never wanted to have more than one blog, and if I start a new one, this one will be even more neglected than before.
Tonight, I spent a couple of hours composing two rants about gay-marriage-related current events, and I posted them on my Facebook. I do not normally do that kind of thing on Facebook because Facebook doesn't seem like the right forum for that; LJ does. But I haven't posted that kind of thing on LJ because the conversations about these events aren't going on at LJ, at least as far as I can see, because I also read LJ pretty rarely. I wanted to post my rants as part of the conversations about these events, so I posted on Facebook.
It felt good getting that stuff off my chest! And one of my friends said, "You should start a blog."
But I have a blog: this one! And now I kind of want to think about blogging the kind of stuff like I posted tonight. But I'm not sure I want to post it here.
I never really considered this blog "private" since it's on the Internet. But I also have declined to post the link on my Facebook, because there is a lot of personal gut-spilling on here, and there are a lot of people on my Facebook that I wouldn't have added to LJ or given my URL back in the days before Facebook. Facebook is just a different animal. I mean, do I really want my co-workers reading about my religious struggles, or watching my mom die? And some people on my Facebook have been mentioned on my LJ, with or without their real names.
Yeah, as I type this, I'm realizing that if I want to have a blog I'll connect to Facebook, which is kind of like my "real life," it can't be this one. Unless I just friends-lock everything before today. That kind of makes me sad, though. I've had this LJ for ten years! I never wanted to have more than one blog, and if I start a new one, this one will be even more neglected than before.