When I tell people I'm on Live Journal they usually ask some very good questions, but here's what I try to put across: When LJ started my friends and I used it to keep in touch with each other, much like email. But over time I came to recognize LJ as a viable community, particularly after someone confessed to a sexual dalliance, and asked not only for his partner's forgiveness, but for the community's as well.
I've shared stuff that is deeply personal, and others do the same all the time. I believe we come from a generation that says; "I don't give a damn what you think of me, unless you're my boss or my lover." We free ourselves from the constraints of those who came before us.
But when cyber-lives and real-lives are so close to one another in proximity, and there's so much more lying going on in the cyber version, there's gotta be a line out there that some people blur. Those are the people my parents' generation is afraid of. Those are the people I would be afraid of if I weren't in my 20s and supposedly "invincible." Those are the people who need to learn how to function in real-life, because, despite what Second Life purports, they are different, and real still trumps cyber, no matter what way you play the game.
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I've shared stuff that is deeply personal, and others do the same all the time. I believe we come from a generation that says; "I don't give a damn what you think of me, unless you're my boss or my lover." We free ourselves from the constraints of those who came before us.
That being said; I fucking hate MySpace.
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Which is also why I don't care for World of WarCraft.
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