Taking a new look
Jul. 29th, 2011 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisThe latest LJ outage gave me a nice pause to stop and consider why I keep my journal here and what I keep in my journal here and what I expect out of keeping my journal here and what other alternatives might there be and am I interested in them in addition to and/or instead of. I pondered. I considered. And I'm probably not done yet.
I started this sucker up one day just as if I picked up a blank book and a pen and started a journal that way. It was just a way to chronicle the Me of the Now. For no particular reason except, I just like having it documented.
Along the way, I discovered others with the same thoughts. I read their journals often and added them to my 'friends' list as a way to more easily access their entries. Many of them actually became friends. It was years, literally, before I ever met any one of these people face to face. Then I started adding lots of people to the page that held the entries of others. It was great for years.
My latest ponderings had me take many many people off that list of people who's entries I read regularly. I think mainly I'm separating my journal writing from my reading of other people's journals - kind of.
The journal writing has become such a habit that I can't not do it. Should something happen to LJ long term, I'll just flop right over to http://susandennis.blogspot.com and keep on keepin' on. For now I'm here and happy to be here.
I'm on google plus and happy to be there. I kind of check Twitter now and again. The vast majority of everything I do online is publicly available. I'm delighted to have everyone read but turns out I'm not so dependent on it. If they read, great. If they don't, fine. It's the writing of it that's my piece of the rock.
I am not finished thinking about this. I may well go back and repopulate my friends list at some point. But that's the joy of The Me Of The Now. It'll change in 1... 2...
I started this sucker up one day just as if I picked up a blank book and a pen and started a journal that way. It was just a way to chronicle the Me of the Now. For no particular reason except, I just like having it documented.
Along the way, I discovered others with the same thoughts. I read their journals often and added them to my 'friends' list as a way to more easily access their entries. Many of them actually became friends. It was years, literally, before I ever met any one of these people face to face. Then I started adding lots of people to the page that held the entries of others. It was great for years.
My latest ponderings had me take many many people off that list of people who's entries I read regularly. I think mainly I'm separating my journal writing from my reading of other people's journals - kind of.
The journal writing has become such a habit that I can't not do it. Should something happen to LJ long term, I'll just flop right over to http://susandennis.blogspot.com and keep on keepin' on. For now I'm here and happy to be here.
I'm on google plus and happy to be there. I kind of check Twitter now and again. The vast majority of everything I do online is publicly available. I'm delighted to have everyone read but turns out I'm not so dependent on it. If they read, great. If they don't, fine. It's the writing of it that's my piece of the rock.
I am not finished thinking about this. I may well go back and repopulate my friends list at some point. But that's the joy of The Me Of The Now. It'll change in 1... 2...
