I have a question...

[conuly]

If you're friends-only, why is that? If you don't mind telling me, that is :)

I mean, is it because you actually had somebody objectionable posting in your journal or reading it? Or is it just a general feeling of privacy?

If you're not completely friends-only (some posts are public, or you make public posts but only friends can comment or somesuch), why is it that way?

Why are you answering my question?

Comments

[aquamizuko.livejournal.com]

My journal is friends only because I was worried that someone I didn't want to be reading my journal would read it, mainly. *pokes nosy parents* As for why I'm answering, I'm bored. :P

[neotino911.livejournal.com]

My journal is friends only because, well, I am a pretty private person and at times I post some personal stuff that i wouldn't want just anybody to have access too. I guess in a nutshell, i'd like to know who is reading my journal:)

And i'm answering your question because i'm bored^^

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of weird people in "real life" who I wouldn't want to poke into my journal, and some of them DO have access to the same computers I often use to do internet stuff on. Sometimes even with clearing history and internet content, traces of urls still stick around for people to browse on.

If I know enough weird creepos in real life, there are surely even more people online I wouldn't want nosing around my private thoughts that my friends are more than welcome to read and comment on.

And yes I do have a (bad) habit of posting revealing info about myself that I don't always want the public to be aware of.

I'm answering your question because I feel like it. *nyah*

Hope he doesn't find this...

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who's journal is friends only because he posts lots of angstywanttokillmyself stuff and doesn't want his family to read it. *shrugs*

Personally, I don't care who reads my journal. The only friends only things I ever do are when I'm writing something i don't want certain people to see. For example I made a post awhile back about thinking my friend had stolen my art style, and didn't want her to read it.

Re: Hope he doesn't find this...

[conuly]

For example I made a post awhile back about thinking my friend had stolen my art style, and didn't want her to read it.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Most of my friends only stuff is either:

1. Stuff that's in a special filter so that it doesn't clog up the lists of other people (like if I post a thing about "yeah, we can meet up on friday", I'll post it just for the people I'm meeting up with)
2. Occasionally... well, just once, stuff I want one person NOT to see
3. Stuff that relates to private posts in other people's journals... if they want that privacy, I won't be the one to break it. Again, that usually goes in a separate filter so most of my friends never will get to see it.

Adds up to very few posts, actually, especially since most of those get deleted or made public after a few weeks have passed.

[strangelette.livejournal.com]

I used to almost never lock posts, but then I found out my nosy little roommate had decided I made good reading material :) I don't lock everything, or even a majority of posts, but there's a definite personal-life content cut-off in my head I use to decide when something gets the little lock.

[rachelkachel]

I make friends-only posts when I'm saying something that might reveal more info than I want total strangers to know. I also make private posts pretty frequently, when I just want to think as I type but I don't want anyone to actually read it.

I'm answering your question because I think it's interesting.

[spitefairy.livejournal.com]

I had mine friends only for about a week because a few people from an old community I was in were incredibly nasty in their comments and were posting my posts on other forums, which I didn't appreciate.

I customize who reads what entries. Sometimes I'm bitching about someone and I just don't want them to know about it. Or I'd rather not have people that I regularly deal with know when I'm going through a personal crisis because they try to help and I don't like that sometimes.

Why are you asking the questions?

[conuly]

Boredom mostly. And also I'd noticed that several of my friends were friends-only. Some of them I know why, but others I don't, so I thought it might be interesting to know.

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Only some of mine are friends-only... well, quite a bit these days. And I've got seperate levels of security. I do it for several reasons: 1. I know some people who *might* be reading the journal, something that makes me uncomfortable as the main person I screen random posts from once got into a huge snit over something I wrote in livejournal like, two years ago. As if it even applies to me now, or meant anything to her... Anyway, it was hugely unpleasant and has limited my trust in her a lot.

If I write about other friends, I usually make the post friends only so they don't somehow chance upon it and be offended.

Posts about bad stuff in my life or family matters are almost always put into some level of security. There are enough strangers who list me as friends that I would definitely be uncomfortable with some of them reading my posts. Anyway, I don't think that the majority of my "friends" need to read about my personal problems... and certainly no strangers do. They are likely not interested, and even if they are, I wouldn't tell near strangers private things. Only about eight or so people that I trust are actually able to see a lot of my posts. You're one of them, so you might not realize that.

[conuly]

*blushes*

Now I feel special. In a good way. I like to keep my journal open, that's why even most friends-only posts will, eventually, be made public... I honestly don't care if all the world reads about it since I don't know all the world. But I'm an attentionwhore. *hugs* And I have comparatively few problems that I talk about, so that's something else too.

[black-rat.livejournal.com]

Because I set it that way when I got the journal, and I'm too lazy to change it a different way :P

Actually, more than 99% I don't really give a damn who reads my journal.

[goddess588.livejournal.com]

One of my journals is friends only for several reasons.
1. I don't want my DH reading all the nasty shit I write about him.
2. I think if anyone is interested enough in me to want to read it, they can add me to their friends list and I'll add them back - if they ask, or if I notice.
3. I want a bit of mystery about me if some random person randomly finds me and links to my friends only journal from the public one.
The other one (this one) is as public as you can get.
And anyone can comment on both journals.

I'm answering your question because you're interested and I believe that people who ask should be answered. It's how we learn and how we make decisions.

[shoumagic.livejournal.com]

Some of my entries are public but the majority of the entries are friends-only... I usually do this because I'm not completely comfortable with having all of my thoughts open for everyone to see. I'm not too worried about having my friends in RL read it because only two know about it and I tell them the majority of my thoughts anyway. I guess that part of it is also the fact that I have a hard time being open to anyone, even friends that I'm pretty close too.

[meteorie.livejournal.com]

Well I TRY to be friends-only, but I forgot a LOT.

I do it because I'm afraid my parents will track me...

[aquamizuko.livejournal.com]

My journal is friends only because I was worried that someone I didn't want to be reading my journal would read it, mainly. *pokes nosy parents* As for why I'm answering, I'm bored. :P

[neotino911.livejournal.com]

My journal is friends only because, well, I am a pretty private person and at times I post some personal stuff that i wouldn't want just anybody to have access too. I guess in a nutshell, i'd like to know who is reading my journal:)

And i'm answering your question because i'm bored^^

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of weird people in "real life" who I wouldn't want to poke into my journal, and some of them DO have access to the same computers I often use to do internet stuff on. Sometimes even with clearing history and internet content, traces of urls still stick around for people to browse on.

If I know enough weird creepos in real life, there are surely even more people online I wouldn't want nosing around my private thoughts that my friends are more than welcome to read and comment on.

And yes I do have a (bad) habit of posting revealing info about myself that I don't always want the public to be aware of.

I'm answering your question because I feel like it. *nyah*

Hope he doesn't find this...

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who's journal is friends only because he posts lots of angstywanttokillmyself stuff and doesn't want his family to read it. *shrugs*

Personally, I don't care who reads my journal. The only friends only things I ever do are when I'm writing something i don't want certain people to see. For example I made a post awhile back about thinking my friend had stolen my art style, and didn't want her to read it.

Re: Hope he doesn't find this...

[conuly]

For example I made a post awhile back about thinking my friend had stolen my art style, and didn't want her to read it.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Most of my friends only stuff is either:

1. Stuff that's in a special filter so that it doesn't clog up the lists of other people (like if I post a thing about "yeah, we can meet up on friday", I'll post it just for the people I'm meeting up with)
2. Occasionally... well, just once, stuff I want one person NOT to see
3. Stuff that relates to private posts in other people's journals... if they want that privacy, I won't be the one to break it. Again, that usually goes in a separate filter so most of my friends never will get to see it.

Adds up to very few posts, actually, especially since most of those get deleted or made public after a few weeks have passed.

[strangelette.livejournal.com]

I used to almost never lock posts, but then I found out my nosy little roommate had decided I made good reading material :) I don't lock everything, or even a majority of posts, but there's a definite personal-life content cut-off in my head I use to decide when something gets the little lock.

[rachelkachel]

I make friends-only posts when I'm saying something that might reveal more info than I want total strangers to know. I also make private posts pretty frequently, when I just want to think as I type but I don't want anyone to actually read it.

I'm answering your question because I think it's interesting.

[spitefairy.livejournal.com]

I had mine friends only for about a week because a few people from an old community I was in were incredibly nasty in their comments and were posting my posts on other forums, which I didn't appreciate.

I customize who reads what entries. Sometimes I'm bitching about someone and I just don't want them to know about it. Or I'd rather not have people that I regularly deal with know when I'm going through a personal crisis because they try to help and I don't like that sometimes.

Why are you asking the questions?

[conuly]

Boredom mostly. And also I'd noticed that several of my friends were friends-only. Some of them I know why, but others I don't, so I thought it might be interesting to know.

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Only some of mine are friends-only... well, quite a bit these days. And I've got seperate levels of security. I do it for several reasons: 1. I know some people who *might* be reading the journal, something that makes me uncomfortable as the main person I screen random posts from once got into a huge snit over something I wrote in livejournal like, two years ago. As if it even applies to me now, or meant anything to her... Anyway, it was hugely unpleasant and has limited my trust in her a lot.

If I write about other friends, I usually make the post friends only so they don't somehow chance upon it and be offended.

Posts about bad stuff in my life or family matters are almost always put into some level of security. There are enough strangers who list me as friends that I would definitely be uncomfortable with some of them reading my posts. Anyway, I don't think that the majority of my "friends" need to read about my personal problems... and certainly no strangers do. They are likely not interested, and even if they are, I wouldn't tell near strangers private things. Only about eight or so people that I trust are actually able to see a lot of my posts. You're one of them, so you might not realize that.

[conuly]

*blushes*

Now I feel special. In a good way. I like to keep my journal open, that's why even most friends-only posts will, eventually, be made public... I honestly don't care if all the world reads about it since I don't know all the world. But I'm an attentionwhore. *hugs* And I have comparatively few problems that I talk about, so that's something else too.

[black-rat.livejournal.com]

Because I set it that way when I got the journal, and I'm too lazy to change it a different way :P

Actually, more than 99% I don't really give a damn who reads my journal.

[goddess588.livejournal.com]

One of my journals is friends only for several reasons.
1. I don't want my DH reading all the nasty shit I write about him.
2. I think if anyone is interested enough in me to want to read it, they can add me to their friends list and I'll add them back - if they ask, or if I notice.
3. I want a bit of mystery about me if some random person randomly finds me and links to my friends only journal from the public one.
The other one (this one) is as public as you can get.
And anyone can comment on both journals.

I'm answering your question because you're interested and I believe that people who ask should be answered. It's how we learn and how we make decisions.

[shoumagic.livejournal.com]

Some of my entries are public but the majority of the entries are friends-only... I usually do this because I'm not completely comfortable with having all of my thoughts open for everyone to see. I'm not too worried about having my friends in RL read it because only two know about it and I tell them the majority of my thoughts anyway. I guess that part of it is also the fact that I have a hard time being open to anyone, even friends that I'm pretty close too.

[meteorie.livejournal.com]

Well I TRY to be friends-only, but I forgot a LOT.

I do it because I'm afraid my parents will track me...