i hear what you're saying. i started my LJ somewhat naively as a mostly personal diary that was open for whoever to read, assuming the only people who would want to read it were my friends that i already knew on LJ. time passed, strangers started reading and commenting. and more so, people who weren't even on LJ were reading the journal and then mentioning it when i met them. now i self-censor. maybe not quite not enough even, i don't know. but i do know that when i right i have some kind of audience in my head where there didn't used to be one. the old "dear diary" feeling is gone.
i'm doing great! i guess i've really bled out all my attention over the years here. i do the same stuff as before, but i like being secretive about it. there are many times that i wish i wrote about my thoughts or events that have happened in recent years but i just don't feel like documenting these things anymore. i think i'm fed up with the way the internet has encouraged and now forced people to document and blog everything. so much of it is useless shit. i don't want to contribute to the cluttered abyss of opinions and flickr accounts
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i'm glad you did submit this. i agree with everything you say in it, not just in a "yeah yeah, i know" way, but agree from the bottom of my toes "you are so fucking right" way. i've refused to even get a facebook account because 1. i never heard anything good about it, even the friends who say i should join complain about it. 2. i don't need another excuse to go online. 3. of the profiles i already have online, i find the same kind of problems that you mention
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how are you doing? i mean, post-meltdown.
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