Live Journals....

[himbo35]

How do you start one?

How secure are they really? I know that today someone was saying that they had gotten some access to someone else's journal via someone else and would pm those entries to anyone that asked for them.

That makes me wonder just how secure they really are.

 

[cecelia]

They can be open or very secure, depending on how they are set up. Some people are very open with their journal and have no problem sharing its content. Others would prefer to keep their feelings to themselves or within a designated circle of friends.

As we can see from other posts made on this board, there's often good reason to keep them private. All you need is one unscrupulous or vengeful 'friend' and trust is breached.

 

[ABN_Ranger]

Seriously... It seems kinda low and well... dirty to breach someones trust like that... you know, sharing info you're privy to with other people, no matter what it entails. If someone ever did that stuff to me... Oh sweet god would I go out of my way to see that they suffered for the rest of their natural life. But I'm just the unforgiving, vengeful type. What can I say... I take trust very seriously.

J

 

[himbo35]

I know that most people saw the threat that was posted in the "How to Deal with the Neighbors" thread before it was split and part of it removed.

That is what brought my questions about. The next question is how much would you trust someone that said that they had done that very thing?

That someone else had sent them copies of someone else's public journal, but they wouldn't post them, ony send them to people via pm. What would you say to the person who's journal it is that was copied?

 

[red_jane_doe]

If you want a Live Journal you have to have someone who already has one, send you and invite or you can pay for one yourself. If you go to Greatest Journal, they are all free.

It's like any other account, they are password sensitive. You can submit your journal entries with different privacy ratings. They can be open to everyone, open to only certain friends or locked to everyone but you.

I wouldn't trust anyone who had gone into my private thoughts and sent them along to everyone else. If they are that untrustworthy with you innermost thoughts and feelings (the big things), I certainly wouldn't trust them with the little ones either!

 

[cecelia]

"That is what brought my questions about. The next question is how much would you trust someone that said that they had done that very thing? "

I'm not sure a general judgement can be made about this. There may be cases where the journal's owner has given specific permission for certain entries to be passed.

Also, in the case of a public journal, the owner always is at risk of being burned. Unfortunately, openess and trust have a way of biting you in the ass sometimes. All it takes is one asshole.

 

[Missingmeds]

himbo,

It was my understanding that the person that sent the emails to the other was on a friend's list to a private journal. I could be wrong but that was my understanding of it all.

If that were the case then it wasn't a public journal and it is a serious case of misjudging who is a friend and who is not.

So to answer your question, a private journal, is only as good as the friends that you have on a list that are able to access it.

 

[flyindolphine]

i have been using online journal for more than a year now. i go to www.xanga.com, it can be secure, protected or even locked with paswords. i love it it has some cool stuff, especially if you decide to pay for it, you dont have to you can use it for free! other than that i got all of my friends in using it and we decide what to write for everyone to read nad what to not and its interesting. you come back from work, read your friends blogs, write one yourself.

 

[Mskey]

I say stick with the good old fashioned pen and paper kind. Online journaling is good I guess but why risk millions of nasty people out there in virtual reality having aqccess to your innermost thoughts. Even if you secure it to a friends only list for viewing what if you and your friend have a tiff and they go giving out the info? Also who's to say I can't copy and paste anything from your journal to read and alter to my own satisfaction? I know firsthand that this can happen and so I've started weaning myself off online journaling and back to the old school way.

If I have to watch what I say for fear of who reads it what good is it as a journal?

 

[Missingmeds]

I say stick with the good old fashioned pen and paper kind. Online journaling is good I guess but why risk millions of nasty people out there in virtual reality having aqccess to your innermost thoughts. Even if you secure it to a friends only list for viewing what if you and your friend have a tiff and they go giving out the info? Also who's to say I can't copy and paste anything from your journal to read and alter to my own satisfaction? I know firsthand that this can happen and so I've started weaning myself off online journaling and back to the old school way.

If I have to watch what I say for fear of who reads it what good is it as a journal?

Good point Mskey. I mean I would think that the purpose for the journal is so that you don't have to watch what you say.

Great thread himbo35.

 

[alonelygal]

If you want a Live Journal you have to have someone who already has one, send you and invite or you can pay for one yourself. If you go to Greatest Journal, they are all free.

i have a livejournal (link in my sig, not that it matters). mine was completely free and i didn't need anyone to invite me to create it. i know that a while back it was like that but it had changed by the time i started mine.


j.

 

[dollface007]

You may want to read this Washington Post article on a blogger's worst case (or best, depending on perspective) scenario. Very interesting read.

 

[cecelia]

"I mean I would think that the purpose for the journal is so that you don't have to watch what you say."

And I thought that was what Literotica was for...

 

[Beloved]

Why even bother?

I know a bunch of atheletes, musicians, and actors keep BLOG's for their fans, especially for fansites, but with all the new computer programs out there, or even Word or notebook, why bother keeping an on-line on at all. Just keep one yourself in Word/Works/Notebook and you won't have to worry about privacy issues.

 

[ABN_Ranger]

It's that very reason why I don't keep an on-line journal. I don't trust anyone. I'm naturally suspicious of just about anyone... well except my wife, I love her to death... she has my complete undying trust and there's nothing I wouldn't do for her or in her defense. Everyone else... Nah, not so much.

J

 

[alonelygal]

Re: Why even bother?

I know a bunch of atheletes, musicians, and actors keep BLOG's for their fans, especially for fansites, but with all the new computer programs out there, or even Word or notebook, why bother keeping an on-line on at all. Just keep one yourself in Word/Works/Notebook and you won't have to worry about privacy issues.

i was asked to keep mine. my Sir suggested that i keep one. It started off as a record of tasks and such that He gave me. It's turned into a valuable communication tool between the two of us. i sometimes have a hard time telling a person face to face or ear to ear (on the phone) what i'm feeling or thinking. i've always found it easy to get things out by writing them down. He reads it and we always talk about it later. Most of what i write is written in such a way so that He and i aren't identifiable, so privacy really isn't an issue for us.

just my 5 cents...
j.

 

[Mskey]

It's that very reason why I don't keep an on-line journal. I don't trust anyone. I'm naturally suspicious of just about anyone... well except my wife, I love her to death... she has my complete undying trust and there's nothing I wouldn't do for her or in her defense. Everyone else... Nah, not so much.

J

In the online world Ranger, that may be the smartest course of action I've ever heard of!

 

[Missingmeds]

"I mean I would think that the purpose for the journal is so that you don't have to watch what you say."

And I thought that was what Literotica was for...

Apparently not as evidenced by the How to Deal with the Neighbors thread.

 

[watergirl]

I like mine

I don't put incredibly private stuff in it, really... my circle of friends from college keep LJs, and so I started, too. It's better than playing phone tag with them, and I like as a way to keep up with them all. I talk about different parts of my life there than I do here, and that's ok..... I don't have a knack for picking up stalkers or enemies, so I don't worry over the thought of it. Naive? Whatever.

 

[himbo35]

You may want to read this Washington Post article on a blogger's worst case (or best, depending on perspective) scenario. Very interesting read.

Thank you for the link and the article. I did read it and good to know what we are paying our representatives for isn't it?

Thank you all for the posts.

 

[Missingmeds]

You may want to read this Washington Post article on a blogger's worst case (or best, depending on perspective) scenario. Very interesting read.

Dollface, I went back and read the article and I want to thank you for it. That was a very interesting read on several levels and shows what can happen when online journals are left open to the public.

 

[H0wl]

That article was the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread. *grins*

 

[CoyoteTales]

Online journals are a labor of love and discretion. You should only ever put up things you want to share with other people -- be it close friends or perfect strangers.

What I see my online journal as is a way for people who I've never met to cross paths with me, by way of my writing -- it's a little more static than a bulletin board like Lit, where your stuff can fall by the wayside and gets mixed in with everyone else's stuff.

I've met several people over the course of the years I've been semi-publically journalling; one of those people was the one that pointed me at Lit.

On a now-dead journal, I made some friends, one of which pointed me at the journal site where I made the journal that got me the friend that pointed me at Lit.

On a now-dead journal, someone pointed me to -that- site...

The journal itself is only part of a journey. Only I get to live through all of it; only I choose what to share.

I usually just pick the good parts. The rest go into my paper journal, along with the double secret stuff, things that aren't complete thoughts, and the moments in my life that have to be done in flowing black ink.

-CT

 

[himbo35]

It would appear that most people do agree on a couple of points with the online journal thing.

1.) That things can easily be taken and posted elsewhere.

2.) That you shouldn't put anything in there that you don't want

to be common knowledge.

 

[Missingmeds]

Or maybe the best thing to do is just to keep it private and let noone see it.

That would be the next best thing to keeping a paper journal.