Friends-only posts?

[chuckro]

So tell me, what is the purpose of friends-only posts? I mean, I get that some people put their fun links and quiz results as public and actual news as friends-only, but do you really think there are many people who aren't your friends trolling your livejournal? Is it just because they wouldn't care about the news, or that you want to keep it hidden for some reason?

Frankly, if I've got something "private" to write, I think it'd get saved to my hard drive, not my online journal. And if I wanted my friends to read it, I could email it to my friends.

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Hey Baker!

Oddly enough, if someone was writing "gossip" about me in their livejournal, I suspect I'd rather be able to read it--it's the sort of thing that gives you an unbiased view of how you actually come off, you know? (It's along the lines of wanting someone to tell you if you whine too much.) That, and then I could post comments and correct details. But that's just me--like I think I commented elsewhere, if I don't want something to become common knowledge, it doesn't become anyone's knowledge.

(I grew up in a very large "small town" where everyone knew everything that was even the slightest bit scandalous. That may have had an influence...)

[tragic-4.livejournal.com]

yeah...perhaps it's not so much pure "gossip" in my case as much as occasionally some scandalous personal thought I have about someone that I don't want them to know, but want to vent about to unconnected others...like...if I hate someone, or have a crush on them, or something like that. It doesn't happen too often, but I like to have the option just in case (for example, if you have read back in my journal, all the bitching I do about people at work - I would feel very unsafe if that was public, and if anyone at work did happen to be on my friends list (which they aren't) it would be heavily filtered)