Do it, don't think any more about it. One thing you get trained by being "old" is to settle clear limits in your life. You LJ is personal, and only for people you choose. If you have the tiny doubt about people bothering you just do it. My entries are rarely friends only becuase I doubt my RL people knows what a LJ is, and just a little part of them really speakes english.
Sigh. That's really, probably a good idea. What I'm afraid of is sounding all smooty and picky, saying "This is a friends-only journal. Comment to be added!" I don't want to be perceived as either snooty or picky in the people I interact with on lj.
But you are right. Limits have to be set. :) I will go about doing it, at least starting with my oldest entries in case I change my mind and just decide to lock a few, selected entries. Thank you again :)
My journal is Friends only. I don't really like to add people that I don't really have a good relationship with, I only add people whom I think might share interests with me...it's really up to you if you want...btw what are you saying?about the anonymous stuff?
I get anonymous posts from people I know I know. It's good to hear from people I know; it's just that I'm terribly uncomfortable with the idea that they are reading things that I never intended them to read.
I know what you mean about not wanting to be elitist about the whole thing, but really, if it makes you feel slightly uncomfortable with people reading things go friends only.
It's a wide world out there, and not everyone is friendly. I've disabled anonymous posting, but I get twitchy sometimes about the number of people who come out of the woodwork on a thread and who aren't on the flist.
I get twitchy sometimes about the number of people who come out of the woodwork on a thread and who aren't on the flist.
Exactly how I feel!
Right now I'm torn between making all entries friends-only and locking just a few entries. Friends-locking is seeming like more and more of a good idea.
If anything, you should rule out the people you DO know from reading your journal. Just kidding. But anyway, I feel safer letting people i don't know personally about things about me which are more.. personal. Something. Just stick to Protecting the entries which you don't want people outside your friendslist to see.
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One thing you get trained by being "old" is to settle clear limits in your life. You LJ is personal, and only for people you choose. If you have the tiny doubt about people bothering you just do it.
My entries are rarely friends only becuase I doubt my RL people knows what a LJ is, and just a little part of them really speakes english.
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But you are right. Limits have to be set. :) I will go about doing it, at least starting with my oldest entries in case I change my mind and just decide to lock a few, selected entries. Thank you again :)
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It's a wide world out there, and not everyone is friendly. I've disabled anonymous posting, but I get twitchy sometimes about the number of people who come out of the woodwork on a thread and who aren't on the flist.
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Exactly how I feel!
Right now I'm torn between making all entries friends-only and locking just a few entries. Friends-locking is seeming like more and more of a good idea.
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