Open journal vs flocked
Oct. 8th, 2007 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hilsI'm feeling very contemplative today.
I made the decision a couple of years ago to entirely lock down my journal where previously all my entries (except some extremely personal ones) were open. It wasn't an easy decision. Quite often people from the Buffy fandom would wander over for a visit after seeing posts on their friends friends pages and some of them decided to stay. Some of you are even still here now.
I kind of miss that.
It's nice to have open discussions with people from fandom who aren't on my flist and the fact that I have had lots of comments on my mpreg poll is testament that people are interested. The irony is that the poll was made public by accident. I had intended to flock it but something went wrong.
On the opposite side of the coin of course is that if I open up my journal then anyone can see it, and this caused me problems when someone I know in RL started leaving annonymous comments in my journal. Coupled with that I'm not sure I want prospective employers (now I'm a contractor I'm going to be all over the place) seeing my fandom filled posts and that I like to read porny fics about fictional characters having gay sex.
I am opening up more of my journal. My fanfic is public (possibly unwise given the point I just made) as are my icons and now my Smallville episode reviews will be too.
Do I just take the plunge and open up all my non personal posts? It's a tricky one.
I made the decision a couple of years ago to entirely lock down my journal where previously all my entries (except some extremely personal ones) were open. It wasn't an easy decision. Quite often people from the Buffy fandom would wander over for a visit after seeing posts on their friends friends pages and some of them decided to stay. Some of you are even still here now.
I kind of miss that.
It's nice to have open discussions with people from fandom who aren't on my flist and the fact that I have had lots of comments on my mpreg poll is testament that people are interested. The irony is that the poll was made public by accident. I had intended to flock it but something went wrong.
On the opposite side of the coin of course is that if I open up my journal then anyone can see it, and this caused me problems when someone I know in RL started leaving annonymous comments in my journal. Coupled with that I'm not sure I want prospective employers (now I'm a contractor I'm going to be all over the place) seeing my fandom filled posts and that I like to read porny fics about fictional characters having gay sex.
I am opening up more of my journal. My fanfic is public (possibly unwise given the point I just made) as are my icons and now my Smallville episode reviews will be too.
Do I just take the plunge and open up all my non personal posts? It's a tricky one.
