| Why I Am Friends Only |
[Nov. 9th, 2001|11:37 pm] |
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After a couple of months of going through all my entries, I finally edited this entry to be entirely friends-only. However, after chatting with a couple of friends, the question of "Why" has come up - mainly, why in the sense that a friends-only journal seems rather antisocial and all-around pointless.
Therefore, I feel it important to elaborate on why I decided that "friends only" was the best way to go.
First, there were several very strange, creepy people I knew were reading it (or at least have read it in the past). Creepy stalker fathers, for one. A probable sex criminal. An ex-crush of mine from a different part of my life. And so forth. People who really don't need to know what I was like at 17, and people who do not need to know who Elise is in the future.
Secondly, I want the ability to control a little more closely who sees what of my personal thoughts and feelings.
Thirdly, I would much prefer the ability to talk about work/school/life without fearing reprisal (for example, going into detail about why I'm concerned about having rat poison slipped into my breakfast taco by a certain coworker).
However, that being in the case, I'm optimistic about being fairly liberal about who I add as a friend - mostly, I want to know you in real life, or have known you at some point in the past. Common interests, of course, also tend to be a bonus if I don't know you - unless you're a snarky asshole or something, in which case I'm more likely to enjoy your company. ;)
So, in short, I guess if I know you, or have known you, tell me. If you're a scary crazy person, a child molester, or someone else who is generally just a bad human being and should probably go jump off a cliff...well, why don't you just do that already? |
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