Explanation that seems to be belated due to a mistake on my part
I realized that I miade a mistake the other day when I was trying to poast about a change in the way I use my journals. I posted a friends-only entry to this journal, then promptly went ahead and made the changes without giving people a chance to see the entry. Very silly of me. So anyway, this is a shorter version of what I said:
I don't think my journal is doing a good job of serving its purposes at the moment. I've always used this journal as two kind of contradictory things: a venting place, and a social connection mechanism. I used to use it also as a place for venting-lite, just babbling about what I was up to and what I thought about it, which was kind of the bridge between the two. I don't really do that anymore. I don't have time and I don't enjoy it the way I used to. The venting I need to do these days is mostly pretty private stuff that I don't really need an audience for. But I really value the social-connection stuff as well. So I need a new solution.
I'm going to stop using this journal as my primary LiveJournal, and switch back to using polyhymnia. I still won't be making any friends-only entries in that journal; it'll be purely a social-connection thing. I've removed almost everyone from this journal's friends list, and will use it for venting, with a lot of private entries. If I don't remove you and you want to be removed, please feel very free to say so. If I have removed you, I've already re-friended you from the other account. If you could please do me a favor and switch your friending over, that would be great.
For those non-real life people who want to continue a more two-sided social connection (besides me reading your journals, if you're happy to continue with that even knowing I won't be writing much personal stuff in mine), that would be very cool; I'd like to. (Obviously you real-life people already know how to find me if you want to.) I'm available by email, phone, and Skype these days (though not a lot, since I'm busy) and could even IM occasionally, though I don't much like to these days.
It'll be weird to change back but I think it'll prove to be a positive change all around.
I don't think my journal is doing a good job of serving its purposes at the moment. I've always used this journal as two kind of contradictory things: a venting place, and a social connection mechanism. I used to use it also as a place for venting-lite, just babbling about what I was up to and what I thought about it, which was kind of the bridge between the two. I don't really do that anymore. I don't have time and I don't enjoy it the way I used to. The venting I need to do these days is mostly pretty private stuff that I don't really need an audience for. But I really value the social-connection stuff as well. So I need a new solution.
I'm going to stop using this journal as my primary LiveJournal, and switch back to using polyhymnia. I still won't be making any friends-only entries in that journal; it'll be purely a social-connection thing. I've removed almost everyone from this journal's friends list, and will use it for venting, with a lot of private entries. If I don't remove you and you want to be removed, please feel very free to say so. If I have removed you, I've already re-friended you from the other account. If you could please do me a favor and switch your friending over, that would be great.
For those non-real life people who want to continue a more two-sided social connection (besides me reading your journals, if you're happy to continue with that even knowing I won't be writing much personal stuff in mine), that would be very cool; I'd like to. (Obviously you real-life people already know how to find me if you want to.) I'm available by email, phone, and Skype these days (though not a lot, since I'm busy) and could even IM occasionally, though I don't much like to these days.
It'll be weird to change back but I think it'll prove to be a positive change all around.