Debbie has the additional problem of being immensely popular within the filk community, which is admittedly filled with many people who may never have developed adequate social skills. My theory is, if they complain, they need to get a life.
I keep my friends list pared down pretty much to close personal friends and long distance friends, and some particularly interesting characters who tend to be friends of friends, who sometimes develop further into my friends as well. ;) I don't 'friend' people I when I don't know who they are in real life. I don't have a fan base of interested readers, though, so I think strangers' interest in my journal would be quite limited. You may be running into the added twists and turns of having your reading public want to devour any words you may care to spill forth in your LJ. So much for your privacy. The filters you can set up might be be useful for posting more personal things that you might not want the public at large to have access to, though I'm not sure how far I'd trust those.
Personally, I find my journal easy and useful as a record of things and thoughts that have been going on in my life, and the added bonus of support in the form of comments from friends can be wonderfully sanity-saving. It tends to be quicker, easier and more personal than the journal I was trying to keep going in my own website, and with the friends' filters I don't have to worry so much about random weirdos reading personal stuff.
I limit my list of who I read due to time constraints, and as a reminder to myself to stay in my real life. Though I will say that I really love hearing about what my long-distance friends are up to, because even if they post only occasionally, I get to hear of their adventures more often than I would if I relied only on e-mail or phone calls. It can become a nice way to stay in touch with long-distance friends, or a way to get to know new people that you think might be cool to know...
And hey Deb, hope the vacation time has gone well! Are you going to OVFF?
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LJ 'friends' lists...
Date: 2004-06-28 01:26 pm (UTC)I keep my friends list pared down pretty much to close personal friends and long distance friends, and some particularly interesting characters who tend to be friends of friends, who sometimes develop further into my friends as well. ;) I don't 'friend' people I when I don't know who they are in real life. I don't have a fan base of interested readers, though, so I think strangers' interest in my journal would be quite limited. You may be running into the added twists and turns of having your reading public want to devour any words you may care to spill forth in your LJ. So much for your privacy. The filters you can set up might be be useful for posting more personal things that you might not want the public at large to have access to, though I'm not sure how far I'd trust those.
Personally, I find my journal easy and useful as a record of things and thoughts that have been going on in my life, and the added bonus of support in the form of comments from friends can be wonderfully sanity-saving. It tends to be quicker, easier and more personal than the journal I was trying to keep going in my own website, and with the friends' filters I don't have to worry so much about random weirdos reading personal stuff.
I limit my list of who I read due to time constraints, and as a reminder to myself to stay in my real life. Though I will say that I really love hearing about what my long-distance friends are up to, because even if they post only occasionally, I get to hear of their adventures more often than I would if I relied only on e-mail or phone calls. It can become a nice way to stay in touch with long-distance friends, or a way to get to know new people that you think might be cool to know...
And hey Deb, hope the vacation time has gone well! Are you going to OVFF?