more bitches about livejournal
more bitches about livejournal
what will prolly be a constant in this dumb livejournal is me bitching about livejournal and how it isn’t like a real journal. Yeah.. bitch bitch bitch. I don’t have to use it, but it’s kinda weird.. Two things that happened in the last 24 hours.. Most recent, I was at Will’s and started to tell him some new spiel that i’ve been babbling.. got cut off with “yeah, i read that in your livejournal”. bah on livejournal.. [rant on]Even if you read it in livejournal, you haven’t heard it. One of the things that everyone says that is wrong with communicating on the internet is there is no vocal inflection, that the nuances of language are lost on email or any other typed medium (chat, usenet news, mailing lists all succumb to this). [rant off] So is livejournal to be a reason to cut people off? Storytelling has two components.. the listening, as well as the telling. So last night I found myself in a situation I swore I would never be.. I almost told someone that rather than me tell this story, he should read it in my livejournal. That used to piss me off when I’d ask josh23 what was happening in his life, and he’d say “you should read my livejournal”. My take on it was it was better to get it live, in person, than get referred to the website. somehow, “how are you doing?” “you should read my livejournal” doesn’t qualify as conversation. My last bitch about livejournal has to do with my reading of livejournals of a friend of mine. I think she was the first person I knew who had a livejournal, in fact she was for a long time my only friend on livejournal. Seems that she was sharing a lot of her inner self in her livejournal (isn’t it odd that livejournal attempts to have you correct ‘livejournal’ in a spell check?) and people who she didnt know that well were addressing things that, to her, were kinda personal. As a result, she changed her default permissions, and the last time I looked there there was literally nothing there to read. As a person with a scorpio rising, I can certainly empathize with this. “well you can change the permissions, you can control who sees it”. Yeah, right. I’ve maintained web servers, I know that there really isn’t much I have in the way of control over these words after I click on “Update Journal”. I trust that Livejournal’s staff have adequately tested the access control on their database content. But I know that it’s only a comma or a * away from being completely opened up. In a world that allows the existence of things like carnivore or the USA PATRIOT act, who’s to say that some federal judge hasn’t given the FBI carte blanche to the livejournal database? Would a terrorist be stupid enough to document himself on a web journal? well who’da thunk that us and british army folks abusing prisoners in iraq would be dumb enough to document themselves with technologies as slippery as camera phones? So I can’t be completely frank in this journal. Damn. But have I ever been completely frank in my hardcopy journals? nope. There are a great many defining characteristics about me that have never made my journals. That’ll prolly remain the case.