a) Private entries are silly. What's the point? If Livejournal wasn't actually meant to be a JOURNAL, it'd be nothing but people posting the latest amusing Flash animation about George W. Bush. There's a reason that you're using LJ instead of a paper journal or a word processing program - you want your thoughts to be public, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. From my own perspective, having stuff public keeps me honest with myself because it's not just ME I'm saying stuff to anymore.
b) People need to cut you some slack. If you want to vent in your journal, do it. They may not use their journal like a journal, but that's no reason to not let you do it or be judgemental about it. Not to mention, EVERYONE has those moments of self-doubt or self-hatred or hatred of their lives, and they're lying if they say they don't. Just because they don't make entries about it, it doesn't mean they don't have those thoughts so it's unfair to attack you for them,
c) I see no-comments-allowed angsty entries as much more serious than ones where commenting is allowed. It kind of says, "This is how I feel and you can't talk me out of it. Leave me alone."
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Date: 2003-03-05 01:17 pm (UTC)a) Private entries are silly. What's the point? If Livejournal wasn't actually meant to be a JOURNAL, it'd be nothing but people posting the latest amusing Flash animation about George W. Bush. There's a reason that you're using LJ instead of a paper journal or a word processing program - you want your thoughts to be public, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. From my own perspective, having stuff public keeps me honest with myself because it's not just ME I'm saying stuff to anymore.
b) People need to cut you some slack. If you want to vent in your journal, do it. They may not use their journal like a journal, but that's no reason to not let you do it or be judgemental about it. Not to mention, EVERYONE has those moments of self-doubt or self-hatred or hatred of their lives, and they're lying if they say they don't. Just because they don't make entries about it, it doesn't mean they don't have those thoughts so it's unfair to attack you for them,
c) I see no-comments-allowed angsty entries as much more serious than ones where commenting is allowed. It kind of says, "This is how I feel and you can't talk me out of it. Leave me alone."