Yes. I finally broke down and got one. Actually, I’ve had it for around a month now but I’m thinking about trying, as an experiment, to post to it on a regular basis.
I say as an experiment because I’m still not sure how I feel about it. Writing down my thoughts would be great, and I certainly like other people reading what I’ve written. But the whole idea of pimping myself out, screaming to the world “look at me! look at me! LOOOOOK! AT! ME!!!” just leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.
It’s taking me effort just to type this thread.
Then again, how else are people supposed to know I have a live journal if I don’t do this? Sigh…
I felt that way initially, too Ender. But since you can pick and choose what you write about, it still has an aspect of privacy. Just don’t write about something you’d prefer people didn’t read.
You’ll get used to it. I find it to be not only another community to which to belong, but also a way to put my thoughts down. I never kept a diary or journal before, but it’s easier than I thought.
If you make an entry that you are really afraid will scream, “ATTENTION WHORE!!!” just disable commenting for that entry. If no one can reply to it, it’s impossible for anyone to think you’re pleading for recognition.
Custom ‘friends’ groups are good for that kind of thing as well.
You use that phrase as if it were BAD or something.
My LJ is limited to members of the Unaboard and is read by only a tiny subset of them. I whore for attention plenty, but don’t have to worry about actually getting any.
No, I worry that this whole thread, my whole live journal, will scream “attention whore!”
I mean, I want people to come. I’d like for people to come. But for me to announce “I have a live journal! Now you must care about every bit of minutia in my life,” just seems a little egotistical, doesn’t it?
All this pressure to entertain. It’s supposed to be about me, right? But if it were truly about me, I wouldn’t need any friends looking over my cyber shoulder and seeing what I’m writing. I would just write. So it’s not entirely about me. But then again, it is.
Therein lies the conundrum. A catch-44 if you will (upgraded to account for inflation).
I can’t shake it, I can only go with the flow.
It’s mostly used as an extended conversation with my LJ Friends list (waves to Cheffie, apollo9 and Shadowfox) and a chronicle of what’s going on in my attempts to dig my way out of my self-image/shyness pit.
It’s also a neatly-packaged way to see how my odyssey for cute gay tail is going…
I’ve had a live journal for a while now, although I post in spurts and fits. I also have a half dozen or so codes that I might be talked into giving up to the right person…
