Deleting your life

[whitetail]

I have to admit, I haven't looked at my profile page in quite awhile, but I did just now, and I must say I was surprised and pretty disappointed to see how many familiar usernames showed up in strikethrough type: meaning of course that the account had been deleted and purged

Comments

[whitetail]

With regard to LJ, I always say, write primarily for yourself, not for others. What does it really matter who reads it and who comments? My journal is for me mostly, and always has been. And although I don't post to mine strictly like a diary, I find that it partly serves that function. I enjoy going back and looking at what I was doing and thinking about years ago. Sometimes I find things I'd long forgotten about, then go, wow, I remember that! Cool! That's why I find it hard to understand why anyone would want to just make all that personal history disappear.

[c_eagle]

So very much that you said here in this analysis is absolutely SPOT ON. if anything, it's a DIARY, an interactive one even, and therefore an opportunity to use it as such, at least. And at the Very Least, should someone want to continue diary-keeping in private, one could just privatize everything and keep the treasure of its history. But you summed it up well on all points you mentioned

[whitetail]

I don't do it anymore, but I used to purge accounts that hadn't updated in over two years, not out of pique, but mostly because I view a friends list as a subscription list of journals that I wish to read, and what's the point of subscribing to something that no longer publishes? The downside, of course, was that removing an account also removed that person's access to mine, which I didn't necessarily want to do, especially friends I know IRL. (Many of the latter I didn't delete precisely because of that, even though their LJs were dead dead dead.) That's one reason I like how DW splits the process in two: it allows one to decide which journals one wants to read, and to have a separate list which allows specific people access to what one writes

[siraj]

Hm... you know, that reminds me. I DO have a Dreamwidth account. I should mirror my LJ there, just to be safe...

[whitetail]

Backups are always a good thing!

[tiggerfox]

I try to keep things around like this. I may not use it as much as I use to but I still find it very useful for archiving things that happen in my life that I want to remember. I still enjoy browsing through the thoughts of my friends here

[allaboutweather]

The great thing about LJ is being able to control who sees your posts. :)

[ducktapeddonkey]

I find myself thinking about those days when I'd hear a little something from my furry acquaintances quite regularly.

I miss it.