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[ocelot]

Just reading a post where people discuss using LJ's "Private" security level.

For some reason, I can't do it. I think I've posted something privately once, nearly five years ago, and that was random snarky cryptic BS, not anything personal.

If I'm posting on LJ, it's because I want the attention. It would be so utterly unsatisfying to post something and know that no one else was going to read it (well, unless they happened to hack my journal or I accidently posted it publically or something).

This isn't to say I never write anything that isn't for public, or even heavily filtered semi-public, consumption. I just do so in a notebook instead of online.

Of course, some people use it for to-do lists or grocery lists or something. That I can understand a little better, though I still don't use it that way.

No particular reason for posting this. Just a personal oddity I noticed.

Comments

[yndy.livejournal.com]

not that odd... I'm the same way m'self.

:)

[silkensteel.livejournal.com]

I use the Private setting for private journal entries. I've changed computers so often that it's been tweaky pulling different eras of writing together. Also, this way I can write private journal entries from any computer anywhere (and be extra careful to both log off and close the browser.)

For me? Very useful.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

What Blanche said. I do have other Private entries but as future reminders and for when I can't write anything down but have a computer handy.

Plus my "private" entries are my FAM notebook. unixronin is on it but I still consider it private.

He uses private to test to see how something will be displayed before he publically posts it.

[dempcat.livejournal.com]

I can't use private for the same reason. If I'm writing it down online, it's so that other people can see it, even if I'm pretending to myself I don't want other people to see it.

If I were going to make private entries, I'd do it in a pen and paper journal.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I use it as a post preview, because both LogJam's and Semagic's preview panes are worthless.

[dartpoly.livejournal.com]

one of the many reasons i keep a web-journal is to have a readily-accessible way to track certain things that i'd otherwise forget or gloss-over, or stuff that is so inflammatory or potentially blown out of proportion that i won't share it with anyone, but i need to feel like i have.

notebooks will do in a pinch, but i'm invariable in another location when the need arises. and my childhood (with a nosy younger sister) taught me that notebooks are not safe. my world doesn't include anyone like that now, but the programming is still there.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

I think the only reason I've posted privately was for a to-do list I needed to access remotely.

No, I remembered another -- I've posted draft entries privately while I revising them, but they eventually went public or filtered; I don't recall which.

[shwin.livejournal.com]

Same here. I only write private entries when it is stuff someone has asked me not to post on LJ, hahaha.