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Privacy Issues
Aug. 20th, 2002 01:32 amI think I should spend more time writing and less time just thinking without expressing things. But maybe I should get used to not having much time to write things for the hell of it and get better and condensing disparate thoughts into one coherent piece. I used to be able to do such things. This ability wouldn't be the only thing I'm thinking I've lost somewhere.
So I guess I should write about the most salient things.
First off, I want to address something that I've known about for quite a while but hadn't said anything; it bothers me more than a little that there are people that I met in the real world and whom I've never told about my LJ, yet they read it. I think there are two; one may have stopped, but I don't know. I realize that this is public and that anyone may stumble upon it. But I do find it bothersome that at least one person I know discovered this somehow, I have no clue how, and started reading it, yet didn't actually tell me about this. I found out about from other people. Forgive me for seeing such a thing as somewhat backhanded and sneaky. I don't mind people reading my journal, but if I know you outside of the LJ world, I would really like to know that you're reading. I do have comments enabled, plus other ways to contact me listed. It's not that hard. There are things that I have refrained from saying publicly in this journal because I did happen to find out about this situation. I've either not written it, or made the entry friends-only, which is itself something I prefer not to do, because of other friends without LJs that read this with my full knowledge and consent. At this point, I don't see that I would ask anyone to stop reading, but I also won't say that such a thing would never happen.
Well, that was possibly unnecessarily long. To summarize: my issue is with people among my groups of friends, or somehow associated with my friends, who go through the trouble of reading my journal, yet can't take it upon themselves to inform me of this but let me find out through the grapevine, as it were. So, dear readers, if you suspect that I don't know of your status as such (i.e. anyone who 1. doesn't have an LJ and 2. was not given the address for it by myself), please take a moment and remedy this situation.
Like I said, I know this is publicly available and that potentially anyone can come across it (including my parents, god forbid). However, I do believe I'm still entitled to some amount of privacy. It seems likely that most of my random readers come from the LJ community, and I can likewise go and read whatever they write. I don't count it as likely that anyone outside the LJ community would be poking around the site long enough to find my journal, but stranger things have happened. All I ask is a bit of honesty, and no falsehood by omission.
So I guess I should write about the most salient things.
First off, I want to address something that I've known about for quite a while but hadn't said anything; it bothers me more than a little that there are people that I met in the real world and whom I've never told about my LJ, yet they read it. I think there are two; one may have stopped, but I don't know. I realize that this is public and that anyone may stumble upon it. But I do find it bothersome that at least one person I know discovered this somehow, I have no clue how, and started reading it, yet didn't actually tell me about this. I found out about from other people. Forgive me for seeing such a thing as somewhat backhanded and sneaky. I don't mind people reading my journal, but if I know you outside of the LJ world, I would really like to know that you're reading. I do have comments enabled, plus other ways to contact me listed. It's not that hard. There are things that I have refrained from saying publicly in this journal because I did happen to find out about this situation. I've either not written it, or made the entry friends-only, which is itself something I prefer not to do, because of other friends without LJs that read this with my full knowledge and consent. At this point, I don't see that I would ask anyone to stop reading, but I also won't say that such a thing would never happen.
Well, that was possibly unnecessarily long. To summarize: my issue is with people among my groups of friends, or somehow associated with my friends, who go through the trouble of reading my journal, yet can't take it upon themselves to inform me of this but let me find out through the grapevine, as it were. So, dear readers, if you suspect that I don't know of your status as such (i.e. anyone who 1. doesn't have an LJ and 2. was not given the address for it by myself), please take a moment and remedy this situation.
Like I said, I know this is publicly available and that potentially anyone can come across it (including my parents, god forbid). However, I do believe I'm still entitled to some amount of privacy. It seems likely that most of my random readers come from the LJ community, and I can likewise go and read whatever they write. I don't count it as likely that anyone outside the LJ community would be poking around the site long enough to find my journal, but stranger things have happened. All I ask is a bit of honesty, and no falsehood by omission.
