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firecat
1. How long have you been on LJ? Since July 2001. Time to dig out PayPal again.
2. What is the real purpose of your journal? To communicate with friends, to think things through, to record memories, to have fun.
3. How much of you life do you really chronicle? bits and pieces? Most of it? All of it? Only certain aspects? Only some. My friends-groups get postings about specific aspects of my life, and general posts tend to be somewhat factual in nature ("did this, did that").
4. Do you ever fear that friends or family, co-workers or the like may happen upon and read your journal and be influenced in their opinions of you by what they read? I don't really worry about it. Anything I don't want read publicly isn't posted publicly.
5. Do you ever NOT post something because you're afraid of how people will take it? Yes. Sometimes, if I feel it strongly but am not ready to say it, I write it down and mark it private.
6. Is there anything too sacred to share with the general journal reading public? Sure. That's why some posts are marked for friends. And there are things I don't even mention there, because I don't have permission from others involved or because I figure few people would understand or care.
7. Are there people on your friends lists whose journals you seldom read, but possibly skim only once or twice a week? (Don't name them..) I tend to keep up with most stuff on my Friends page, but I skim when I'm behind or busy.
8. How often do you comment and how do you decide whether to comment? If I have something useful or compassionate to say, I'll comment. If it's just going to be the eighteenth "hug" on the page, or I'm busy, I won't comment. I respond to less than a tenth of the posts I read. I appreciate comments I receive, especially when I'm thinking something through.
9. Do you expect all of your friends to read all of your posts? (Barring LJ cut stuff, quiz results and surveys like this one) No, although for some friends it's a good way to stay in touch, so I hope those people read most of my posts eventually. It's a way of knowing I'm important to them: they want to know what's going on with me.
firecat1. How long have you been on LJ? Since July 2001. Time to dig out PayPal again.
2. What is the real purpose of your journal? To communicate with friends, to think things through, to record memories, to have fun.
3. How much of you life do you really chronicle? bits and pieces? Most of it? All of it? Only certain aspects? Only some. My friends-groups get postings about specific aspects of my life, and general posts tend to be somewhat factual in nature ("did this, did that").
4. Do you ever fear that friends or family, co-workers or the like may happen upon and read your journal and be influenced in their opinions of you by what they read? I don't really worry about it. Anything I don't want read publicly isn't posted publicly.
5. Do you ever NOT post something because you're afraid of how people will take it? Yes. Sometimes, if I feel it strongly but am not ready to say it, I write it down and mark it private.
6. Is there anything too sacred to share with the general journal reading public? Sure. That's why some posts are marked for friends. And there are things I don't even mention there, because I don't have permission from others involved or because I figure few people would understand or care.
7. Are there people on your friends lists whose journals you seldom read, but possibly skim only once or twice a week? (Don't name them..) I tend to keep up with most stuff on my Friends page, but I skim when I'm behind or busy.
8. How often do you comment and how do you decide whether to comment? If I have something useful or compassionate to say, I'll comment. If it's just going to be the eighteenth "hug" on the page, or I'm busy, I won't comment. I respond to less than a tenth of the posts I read. I appreciate comments I receive, especially when I'm thinking something through.
9. Do you expect all of your friends to read all of your posts? (Barring LJ cut stuff, quiz results and surveys like this one) No, although for some friends it's a good way to stay in touch, so I hope those people read most of my posts eventually. It's a way of knowing I'm important to them: they want to know what's going on with me.
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You and I feel exactly the same on this one. Different things will mean more or less to different people.