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[rivka]

What attracted me to LJ was the idea of writing about anything that interests me at the moment, without worrying about whether it's interesting to other people or appropriate to a particular locale. It's true that I'm aware of my audience - at first I tried not to have one, by not telling anyone I was keeping an online journal - but it's also true that I feel freed by the opt-in nature of LJ. If you're not interested in what I write, why are you reading my journal?, I ask my inner critic when it accuses me of being boring or precious or self-involved. And my inner critic has to shut up.

It occurs to me that while this is a feature to me, a LJ writer, to many LJ readers it's probably something more like a bug.

This post brought to you by a debate in alt.polyamory.

Comments

[avram]

I'm reading your journal because I noticed you in my Friend Of list, and I was wondering if you were someone I knew from meatspace (or at least other parts of cyberspace).

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[rivka.livejournal.com]

We've never met in meatspace, but I'm on rasseff. I go by "Rivka W" there.