This is an interesting tradeoff between ideals (freedom of speech, one's own virtual space, stifling expression, etc.) and practical matters of informed consent (readers not expecting this kind of emotionally-laden stuff to appear in their friends-list) or unpleasant side-effects (inadvertently pushing partners' buttons).
I'm a slow, 5wpm, single-fingered hunt-and-peck typist. Both today's and Monday's longer entries each took between 30-40 minutes to write. Because of this, I won't/haven't done private entries... if it isn't worth making semi-public, it isn't worth the effort of typing it just for myself. Longhand hardcopy vents are a possibility.
But I don't want to drag the unwilling through future emotional storms... I think I'll post a notice of an opt-in [vent, friends-only] filter just as several of the people on my friends-list have used. Then anyone that chooses to opt-in have consented to seeing that kind of entry, others are blissfully unaware, and I can keep expressing my feelings in my journal in a timely fashion.
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Date: 2003-03-06 02:11 am (UTC)I'm a slow, 5wpm, single-fingered hunt-and-peck typist. Both today's and Monday's longer entries each took between 30-40 minutes to write. Because of this, I won't/haven't done private entries... if it isn't worth making semi-public, it isn't worth the effort of typing it just for myself. Longhand hardcopy vents are a possibility.
But I don't want to drag the unwilling through future emotional storms... I think I'll post a notice of an opt-in [vent, friends-only] filter just as several of the people on my friends-list have used. Then anyone that chooses to opt-in have consented to seeing that kind of entry, others are blissfully unaware, and I can keep expressing my feelings in my journal in a timely fashion.