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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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[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.)

3) For blogwise experimentation on a small scale.

I've never kept a diary or a journal -- rather to my bemusement I find I've got no inclination to write anything for which the sole audience is my own future self. It's the existence of a readership that makes writing worthwhile. However, there are audiences and audiences and sometimes a friends-only posting makes sense.

Incidentally, the "autopope" handle was originally a pathetic attempt to regain some of the net.anonymity I used to feel I had, back in the old days. It lasted about, oh, six months. In order to communicate you need communicants, including friends who know who you are. One of them unintentionally blew my ID -- luckily before I'd stuck anything in my LJ that I might have regretted later. So it goes ...

[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...