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[tnh]

I'd like this better if it weren't called a journal. It sounds too personal. My manifest willingness to shoot my mouth off about my experiences and opinions evaporates as soon as I'm the nominal topic of conversation.

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[redbird]

You can call it anything you like, of course. It can be a journal, a photo collection, a place to post erotica (someone I know has a second journal called $hername_smut specifically for that), a Weblog (though you have a fine one already).

[supergee]

I'm doing a bunch of first drafts for my zine, mixed with a blog, and when I actually talk about my real life, I headline the particular entry "Journal."

[fjm]

I've never kept a journal. Even the thought of the word, with all its obligations, makes me come out in hives. It's more a collection of fumes.

[autopope]

I use my LJ for three purposes:

1) To keep in touch with my friends, who also have LJs (of course) - this is the most important.

2) To bitch and moan in a controlled environment where only people I know (on my friends list) can see it. (My main blog is too damn public -- my parents and siblings read it, never mind J. Random Public

[writingortyping]

Your #2 was the reason I started my LJ. Your #1 ended up becoming almost as important. I had to blow off a lot of steam around my feckless cousin's wedding, and I knew that my uncle and my other cousin (feckless cousin's brother) were both readers of my regular blog...

[sartorias]

They call 'em journal. I call it 'blog'--which means, to me, blab about what one wants to.

Of course, you do have Making Light. But the truth is, wherever you talk, people are going to listen.