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It's so nice to write in LJ. It gives me a chance to sit down and really think about my day. Or just think. Staring at the LJ client, I can free myself either of the online stupor or the academic stiffness, and just ... muse. Of course, most of the time my LJ has really pointless things, but it's just nice to have some nice quiet time. A little oasis of randomness.

Ironic that I find comfort typing into a little box on a screen.

When I write things in LJ I usually don't have a specific audience in mind. Even though the rational part of my mind reminds me that my rants are being posted for public scrutiny, my conscious doesn't really acknowledge the fact. There is a distinct separation between the Friends page on LJ and what I write in this little box. I hardly visit my own entries. Therefore I don't link my rants with entries on an LJ, entries that are appearing on other people's friends lists. When I occasionally browse through other people's friends pages, I'm surprised and embarrassed to see my long rants just posted out there.

Should I just privatize these rants to save myself from online embarrassment?
What kinds of entries would you prefer to show up on your friends page?? Rants, or Summaries?

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Most of the time I write nonsense and/or details about my not very interesting personal life that only my friends would probably read. Sometimes it's kind of freaky how the public can just follow your life from reading your LJ, but somehow I don't think strangers would be interested in how I did on my physics quiz or how I shouldn't really be online right now. I don't think I would write something in private because I can just think it in my head. When I write in LJ, sometimes I get advice/comments that are helpful or fun. Go ahead and lock your entries if it makes you more comfortable to say stuff freely, but (speaking for myself) people on your friends list are ready to listen.

"Ironic that I find comfort typing into a little box on a screen." it's such a nice lil' box with a nice lil' font that fits well in a little box and makes you forget how much you're actually writing because it all seems so nice and small ^^; (and then the scroll bar gets small) first of all compared to sushu methinks I'm the Queen of ranting and I wouldn't consider sushu's "rants" to be rant rants because it hardly fills up the screen, but methinks good things of ranting, first of all summarizing.. especially events in ones life.. well no offense or anything, but it's boring, 90% of what one does is done every single day (it's prob a higher %age but I'll be conservative) while ranting.. well for me ranting is a natural problem-solving process, if I don't know how to deal with something I'll write about it and eventually I arrive with answers that I had no idea of at the beginning of the rant, I personally like reading rants because I find it interesting to learn about other peoples thought processes.. I dunno, on the subject of privacy, I just had some random guy AIM me because my name appears high in a search of people who are interesting in capoeira ^^; I wanted to rant in my lj about how scary that was, but then I thought better of it ^^, I really didn't think people other than people I know read lj, who knows... but that's also the reason why I'm not going into the whole reason why I'm depressed..
>hopes her depression hasn't rubbed off on sushu< ::huggles::