Some of what you've said here really resonates with me. In the years I've had my LJ, I truly can't count the number of times I've stopped myself from posting due to self-censorship of things I think people won't be interested in, or times I haven't commented because I don't know someone, or because I feel awkward about something I've read. Or because I know what the fallout can be from ranting about something in internetland when I've totally come to the end of my rope. I think it's become much more pronounced the last two years or so; I used to regularly blather the first five years, but then I went...quiet.
Anyway. Interesting. Thank you for these thoughts; I so agree about the sense of community overriding many of the other issues of reticence.
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Date: 2008-05-09 07:19 pm (UTC)Anyway. Interesting. Thank you for these thoughts; I so agree about the sense of community overriding many of the other issues of reticence.