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This journal is personal and functions as my venting place and safe space. As such, I impose some rules on friends and friending.
1. I don't friend anyone I don't know and know well. I and I alone am the judge of "well." If I don't friend you on this journal, it doesn't mean I hate you or don't trust you or anything of the sort. It just means I don't think we're close enough for me to be comfortable with you reading very private details of my life- even offline, that's an extremely select group.
2. If you haven't got anything supportive to say, don't say anything at all. Does this mean you can't question me? No. However, because this functions as my safe space, it is the one place where I need and expect to be able to express myself honestly without my feelings or thoughts being shot down, invalidated, or judged. Just mind your tongue a bit, that's all I ask.
3. I reserve the right to de-friend anyone on this journal's friends list. I don't do warnings. If you violate #2, particularly repeatedly, if we never interact, if I feel like we've drifted apart, if I'm cutting down the flist to keep it small, whatever. I will if I feel the need.
4. Don't spread the location of this journal around. I keep quiet about it intentionally, because I want to keep a small, reliable flist, and I don't want to be bombarded by a bunch of friend requests from acquaintances who consider themselves Speshul Enough to be on this friends list despite me not knowing them very well, then sulking around when they're rejected. If you know of a mutual friend of ours who you think would want to be on this flist, ask me before mentioning it to her/him.
5. These rules are subject to change and addition as I deem it necessary.