Blurty...good thing or bad??

[*bratcat*]

 

[Rubyfruit]

There is no way in hell I'd air my inner-most thoughts, conflicts, desires, etc. on Blurty. Nope. Not going to happen.

 

[*bratcat*]

 

[ma_guy]

Possibly.. But I just read that thread and I don't think that was really what people where objecting to.

Several of us here on Lit use Blurty. Most of us have seen each other's posts on there at some point or another. We even pass comments back and forth to each other on them.

I think the bigger objection was posting the link to an outside sight. If the parties involved had wanted everyone to know they could have posted the link themselves. Maybe I read things wrong but I think the bigger objection was that by posting the link, you ended up insetring yourself into the middle of someone elses dispute on what I assume is a highly personal matter (I have no idea what the actual dispute is about and it's really none of my biz so I'm not sure how "personal" it really is..).

 

[Angel]

Based on the fact that I was highly wrong in posting a link to the site of blurty...which then had someone's last post linked on the first page of the site (the most recent blurts are linkable from their homepage)...are public diaries a good idea or bad??

Wouldn't having a document on your computer that is safe and private be a better place for storing your innermost thoughts?

Some people want feedback - from friends, from unbiased strangers. I have a blurty. It has the username everyone on earth knows me by, my real name and my picture on it. I also have a private journal, which is for my eyes only.

The whole thing that was wrong with you posting publicly on lit was that her entry was on Blurty. She wanted it posted on Blurty, not Lit.

Lit is where I throw things from my life, my opinions and other stuff up for discussion, blurty is where I vent shit out and allow people to give me feedback which I can censor or block. I can also choose the option on blurty to make it so nobody can read or comment on all or some of my posts.

I just choose not to.

 

[Olivianna]

I totally don't understand blurties. I really don't get the whole idea, what is attractive about the concept, etc.

 

[Freya]

It is an online journal, and as such is available for public viewing. But to do so, you have to enter the site, find the person you're looking for and then read. So there's maybe a tendency to expect that only those with a serious interest in what you have to say, would be looking for it. And in that case, once the fact that she had posted on there was made public, it's to be assumed that people would go and look it up. But to make it easy for them, I think, just encourages trolls to feed off this.

So, although it's a public site, posting a link to her thoughts would be no different than cutting and pasting her words, and posting them here.

 

[*bratcat*]

Re: Re: Blurty...good thing or bad??

 

[peachykeen]

I registered but have never gotten around to writing anything there. Between the GB, my 'writing' writing, and my private journal, I have nothing left for blurty.

 

[Kitte]

I vent to mine...took the link out of my sig though, it can be found if a friend really wants too..but I did stop putting my most personal stuff in it... realizing the whole world didnt need to know what was really going on, so there is some ranting...a little whining...but that is about it. Online journals that are publicised in this community are going to be read by other members it is a fact and if it isnt something you would put on the GB...you may not want it in your blurty... I made some of my entrys private or available only to friends... but pretty much it is my own private whine a thon.

 

[Guest]

 

[*bratcat*]

 

[perks]

I have a difficult enough time maintaining a coherant thought, let alone documenting one on a daily basis. That's what teenage kids will do to you.

*stalk*

 

[Freya]

Is that why your eye looks weird??

Actually, I ended up deleting all my links to things except for my stories that are published here. I used to have a website for my AVs that I had linked...and when I posted some pics in the Amateur Forum, I made sure that there was only one at a time...those have all been deleted now.

I mean, look at all the shit that flies around here as it is...I just don't know how "safe" an online journal is??

It's not safe if you want it totally private - but it should remain safely within the area it was posted.

 

[*bratcat*]

 

[Freya]

I guess that is right...but when Laurel posted the Blurty thread here...many people automatically posted links and talked about what they were posting.

Maybe this is yet another thing we should monitor ourselves for...do not talk about any other site, no matter what it is.

I am still not defending what I did. I should not have posted the link...I should not have posted the link...I should not have posted the link.

If those people do so, then they can't scream later about people knowing of it. However, if someone were to cut and paste a blurt one of them made - even if that person has a link in their sig - it would be wrong.

But don't beat yourself up over it - you made a mistake and remedied it - consider it over as far as your part in it.

 

[sexy-girl]

this might not be a popular view but if you don't want the stuff from blurty to be posted on lit then you should either not post it in blurty or you should make it impossible to be tracked down from here

im not saying anyone is right to post stuff from blurty on here but people don't always do what's right ... there's a number of people that would post that stuff just to annoy you

and perhaps it isn't even breaking any lit rules because you've already posted it on a public site (i dont know about that)


i think people worried about having there stuff from blurty here should read killermuffins thread about being safe and keeping your personal lives safe

bratcat might of been wrong to post it but at least shes a person that you can talk to and ask her to edit the post or whatever a lot of people/trolls wouldn't do that

 

[Angel]

Re: Re: Re: Blurty...good thing or bad??

Correction...Cheyenne posted that ltr posted on blurty...I followed the clues and posted the blurty link.

Two things are wrong with this...

1. Cheyenne should not have posted about blurty.

2. I should not have posted the link.

I stand as corrected and have made my apologies.

I was talking about you posting the link, BC. And I never said you didn't correct it and apologise.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Wouldn't having a document on your computer that is safe and private be a better place for storing your innermost thoughts?

I'm pretty sure that an online journal would be safer from 'prying eyes' than anything I had on this machine, my laptop, or in a regular journal-type book.

Mr PCG is too lazy to actually log onto the net and go looking for me. Anything on the computers or in the house is fair game.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I don't think Brat was wrong in posting the link. It's not against the rules at all. The wrongness was on the human side of it, dragging that particular relationship even more into the public eye. I knew that brat was a compassionate and considerate person, so I knew she would feel enough respect for the principals in that drama to remove the link. There are a lot of people in these parts that would have laughed in my face. They feel that if it's online, too bad, you have no right to try and keep it a secret.

I have a blurty myself and no problems with it. I don't post a lot of myself on it, the stuff that's personal and painful stays off or in certain very controlled portions that the general public cannot access. I like having a blurty because it gives me a place to lecture and preach--which I do so well--and organize my opinions. I work through my thoughts on a keyboard and instead of doing it here, I do it at blurty now.

So, really, it's just another forum to spout my own nonsense, albeit a little harder for the average surfer to find, but that's okay. I never let anything out of my head that I don't want another person to know and I never put anything on the internet that another person could seriously use to hurt me.

Not just at blurty, but here as well.

 

[estevie]

Once its posted, its fair game. It may not be right but thats the way it is.

Don't put shit on the net you don't want people to know. Don't post it here. Don't post there. Don't post it anywhere.

Heyyy, I sound like Dr. Suess!

 

[*bratcat*]

major hijack

 

[estevie]

Re: major hijack

okkkkkkkkk

/hijack

Thats not Dr. Suess!

 

[HeavyStick]

Re: Re: major hijack

Thats not Dr. Suess!

and looking at your av, the cat is not in the hat.

 

[Guest]

Bratcat knew exactly what she was doing.

All this shit about her being sorry for posting the link

Bullshit - and lets all be honest we like to know whats going on

at least two people asked for the link

so LTR and Tiger are discovering that a relationship based on an online meeting is a huge risk

you known fuck all about the person