Question of the Day

[ayoub]

How much freedom to be yourself do you feel you have on your journal?

Comments

[kay.livejournal.com]

Depends on the people reading it, I found out.

Recently I wrote an entry in my lj in the light of sinterklaas, xmas and the crazy amount of money people spent on holiday presents during days like that, last entry was about a little boy in Africa working all day selling self-made airplanes out on the street and I was surprised to find a really paranoid and twisted reaction from someone who crazy enough thought it was an entry made for her because she was one of those people who spends a wagonload of money on presents on one kiddo.

She even went as far as to start a witch hunt in her own lj to get people to ditch me and is now using other people's personal journals and entries to 'leave messages' for me. It's crazy.

So apparently the privacy of your own livejournal is a false sense of security when there are weirdo's on your list and you always have to be careful.

[leatherdykeuk.livejournal.com]

I can say anything I like as long as

(a)It's not political
(b)it's not religious
(c)it doesn't offend minority groups
(d)it doesn't offend majority groups
(e)it doesn't offend friends or family
(f)it doesn't offend friends who *thought* it was about them
(g)it doesn't cast anyone in a bad light
(h)it isn't depressing
(i)it isn't misleading
(j)it isn't satirical.

[kay.livejournal.com]

I completely didn't know about the F rule, so I got in trouble :)))

[leatherdykeuk.livejournal.com]

As did I, hence the rule :)

[kay.livejournal.com]

There should be a wikipedia for this!! Have to say I'm glad I'm not the only one with paranoid people in my friendslist :)

[chiropteraclan.livejournal.com]

A fair amount. I am friends only on everything, and even within that I have filters because of trust levels I have with people who have been with me for years. But if it is something I truly worry about "being out there" in cyberland, I don't put it in my journal. I keep a paper journal for those kinds of things if I feel the need to write about them.

[ex-nothingto835.livejournal.com]

Not very much, considering one of my so called best friends is like a jealous lover when I talk about being in anyone else's company...

Sorry, ranting :D

[amante-donne.livejournal.com]

I think sometimes i am too free on my LJ, sometimes i should not be as vocal.

[dishapeaches.livejournal.com]

I say whatever the hell I want. It's MY journal. If no one likes it, piss off. LMAO! I have a really good bunch of friends on my f-list though - they love how I speak my mind.

[dishapeaches.livejournal.com]

The F Rule? You mean dropping the F-bomb? I use it all the time in my journal. I warn peeps in my profile that I swear like a trucker.

[kay.livejournal.com]

No, I meant the f rule as stated above:

(f)it doesn't offend friends who *thought* it was about them

:)

[dishapeaches.livejournal.com]

A..der. *head smack*

Nevermind. Hehe.

[cmerun12.livejournal.com]

Well, damn. I guess I'd better delete my account. I don't follow any of those rules.

This is the way it is

[cmerun12.livejournal.com]

As much as I want to take and use. Period. The beauty of it being MY journal, I write what I want, when I want. I know some of the things I write about offend/upset some people. Yeah, so? We're back to it being MY journal. If it offends, don't read. If your undies get into a bunch because of something I wrote, you may want to look at why YOUR undies got into a bunch in the first place.

What it all boils down to is the disclaimer I put at the top of my journal:
This is the way it is
This is my journal. All content is mine. Almost all posts are Friends Locked. Since I consider this journal a direct link into my brain, I hold the rights to decide who gets to have access or not.

There is drama within. It's MY drama. Friends are invited to play as they see fit, provided they don't start or cause drama. You have your own journal for your drama.

Just about anyone here can tell you that I'm pretty upfront about a lot of things. I'm not afraid to answer your questions. "If you've got the guts to ask it; I've got the guts to answer it." Just because you may not like the answer I give you... that's not my issue.

Get used to the idea that I'm sarcastic. I'm rude. I do swear, if I feel the situation calls for it. As a norm, I write for my own entertainment and to work stuff out. Friends are invited to play along.

Feel free to leave a comment in one of the public posts. If you feel like friending me, expect that I will be going through your journal and deciding whether or not I'll return the kindness.

[smwright.livejournal.com]

Excellent question. I feel I primarily present the truth of myself, but it's meted out in small doses.

I never present the whole truth of me.

Those who don't like me or what I write are free to not read.

[alainn-mactire.livejournal.com]

Very free to be myself...my journal is friends locked but for two posts and has additional filters for close friends/people I trust and suchlike.

If people add me I don't always add back and I actually ban set random people who friend me (random as in we have no communities or friends in common - some people just randomly friend)

[katamphigorical.livejournal.com]

Not enough, to be honest. Of course, i don't feel like i have enough freedom to be myself in real life either.

[kay.livejournal.com]

::grin::

If they would be offended by the F word, I'd have no friends listed I think :)

[kay.livejournal.com]

I love those socks. Can't stop looking at them :)

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

If I were not a 12 year old Asian female masquerading as a 55 year old Caucasian male I'd say I had a lot of freedom. But as it is I have to stay "in character", so it's not like I can talk about the things that really bug me ya know, like moms and pizza, and boys and braces, and Hanna freaking Montana!

[cybersweetie.livejournal.com]

Have you read my journal??!?! hahaha

If I was any more freer to be myself, I'd be nekkid all the time (well, maybe not. That would be scary)

[cybersweetie.livejournal.com]

Damn, I didn't know all that....

I assume that this is one of those persons who do not have a life?! geez.

[kay.livejournal.com]

One of those spoiled little babrbiedolls who sits at home and spends her days buying the crazyh amount of stuff from hubbies money, bitches about her MIL and spoils her kid so rotten to the extent where the kiddo can't even entertain herself for 1 minute. Met her in the June2006 comm.

[cybersweetie.livejournal.com]

Holy shi-it....barbiedolls are sometimes good entertainment though...but not when they are stupid enough to cause drama like that. *shakes head*

[kingdavey.livejournal.com]

I have about 99% freedom in my journal. The 1% that isn't total freedom is when I stop and think would what I'm saying upset alainn_mactire, but even then I normally post whatever I want anyway.

My journal is locked Friends Only, I'm always happy to make new friends, but I make sure that I know a little about the person first. I don't want some of the RL locals reading my journal