Part I - The Stalk of the Wild Wanderlustlover (aka How I Friend People)
I've had this on a to do list for months. About wanting to have a reference place for how I filter, what and why and who, on my profile. So I finally got to it today.
I. Filters for Me
This is the top collection of my filters, which I group everything in the world that gets added to my journal into some assortment. These say nothing about what you see at all. In fact, they inform on what I read every day and how I can read and not miss things in my almost always being paired down from around 1000 things I follow. They are the permanent pin tabs in Firefox. And broken down so I can choose when and what to read. Especially if my time is short.
- Friends
(This is where you would find yourself.)
- Communities 1 - Main
(This is the hodgepodge of all communities not broken down below.)
- Communities 2 - Icons
(Banners and icons by the millions.)
- Communities 3 - Beauty
(Photography.)
- Communities 4 - Retail
(Just what it sounds like. Swap and sale and retail.)
- Communities 5 - Gaming
(All things my gaming world. Every single one.)
- Communities 6 - Religious
(Pretty self-explanatory really.)
- Communities 7 - Newspapers
(This one, too.)
- Crayon Sharing
(We don't talk about this one out loud.)
II. Filters For You
I've had my journal for a decade-ish, and so I've been making filters for one reason or another, that needed some element of privacy to them for long enough that I've grown into and out of them several times. Especially when things die and are born, end and restart, situations come and go. The reasons leaving and emerging. For the most part, you can be on nearly every filter I own. I most of the time don't care at all. I really do live in a house of glass.
Filters (Past Importants)
- Music Share
(What is sounds like. For swapping playlists and things once upon a time.)
- Filter: Dating
(I believe this was last used in the OK Cupid Failure of '07. But it makes a come-back now and again as life sees fit to toss people at me.)
- Friends - Valentine’s Day
(This one was for The Corner's Valentine's Surprise)
- FullMoon Swaps Preview
(This was sharing my impending surprised in full_moon_swaps)
- Family Abuse
(Created Dec '04. The first time I met my Father's side of the family at my grandmother's funeral. Seldom ever used, but necessary at the time given the intensity of the topics.)
- Dear Roomie
(This was a rant-away zone. Created five years ago, used last in 2010)
Filter Offs (Specifics)
These are filters that rarely ever used, but have some sort of drastic specificism for their need.
- Not RCG
(A place to talk about my group, where I'm not followed by it.)
- Not Mom
(Sometimes....you just need one of these.)
- Mom Only
(Same thing with needing this one.)
- Poetry/Writing
(Created during my Masters to protect the ownership of my poetry.)
- Jo Deserves Lovin'
(I have a thing for a blonde Harvelle. I used to put it here.)
- Sparkle!Mafia
(Fear the Kool-Aid [Plotting] Corner. We love our Cullen’s and our crack.)
- Milliclaus
(Place to get feedback, without revealing my gift too soon.)
- Not Steph
(The place where I hide wedding details, made for the Surgery Surprise.)
Filters (Currently Used)
More often than not, but still not as often as often implies.
- Inconvenient Truths
(The place where I'll talk about the deeply complicated aspects of life. This is where we talk about things that don't always match up. Like emotions and logic, and how I choose to live my life. Endlessly old.)
- Filter: Work
(Uh. This one is pretty obvious as well. Created in Korea. I think. I don't remember to use it as often as I originally created it for.)
- Espoir I & II
(If you get the reference made by the name and know why I need to be filtered to be unfiltered about my girlfriend, you really are welcome to be here. Ten or so months old.)
- Ropes & Ribbons
(Exploration of skin. This is my filter where I'm figuring out my skin. How to let go of my past, and some of the deep dark stuff that clings. How to be a little braver in what I love. And my thoughts on communities I explore. Tmi, sometimes, as all the sex talk goes here. Six or seven months old.)
- Ideas Made Manifest
(Brand new filter. I'm doing Tarot reading's and related talk here, while working through a Tarot Arcana/Archetypes year with one of my religious groups.)
Pretty much all of my filters are an opt-in and opt-out free zone. Half the time when I friend you, you get added to something like seven or eight right away (Friends, Inconvenient Truths, Not Mom, Not RCG, Work, Writing, Dating, Roomies, Not Steph/Milliclaus [if you are Milliways]).
But really this is a screened pointed for you to opt-out or in to any other places if I've missed putting you somewhere or you're interested in it. I won't be hurt if you're somewhere you'd rather not be, nor toe-stepped on if you see something you'd really liked to be reading if you could be. Feel comfortable and welcome whatever path you take.
I'm going to leave this screened for life.