I just realised that my last post had annoying shouty questions, so I'll repost it with nonshouty questions in a minute, and possibly behind a lj-cut tag.
Hey, you answered a poll in my journal, and you said "If people don't want to read your journal, they don't have to, but don't take away their choice."
So basically it is wrong for me to not let others read my journal. I shouldn't make it private because I would be taking the priveledge of others to read my journal. That is just about the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
I have a journal, which I use to vent my thoughts. I do allow others to read it because while it is personal, it is something I would tell anyone who asks. So what I want to know is why you think it is not my choice who reads my journal, since everyone, according to you, should have the chance?
And I am sorry if I interperated what you said differently then you intended, so tell me if that is the case.
I *think* what Michelle means it "Don't lock your journal on account of the belief that some people don' want to read it, because if they don't want to read it they can not read it, whether it's locked or not: they have a choice."
Of course if you don't want to them to read it then you should lock it. (but if that's the case then I would argue that that's the stupidest question I've ... well, heard in a while anyway ;-)).
Grr, this'll teach me to check the other replies before replying to a comment! Not only did you say precisely the same as I did, you said it in much fewer words and in a much clearer manner!
I didn't mean that, if *you* wanted to make it private, that was wrong. Yes, it would be pretty stupid to say that you weren't allowed to make any part of your journal however private you want just because some nosy people wanted to see it.
However, what I meant was that you shouldn't be pressured by people saying that they *don't* want to read parts of your journal, into making it private - which is what it sounded like was happening. Just because some people don't want to read some bits of your journal, doesn't mean that you should remove the option for others to read it if you originally wanted them to be able to - in that case, it's the people who don't want to read it that have a problem, not you.
In conclusion then - it *is* your choice who can read your journal, and it seemed like someone else was trying to take that choice away from you and convince you that you should make it private even though you didn't particularly want to, which is what I thought was wrong.
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So basically it is wrong for me to not let others read my journal. I shouldn't make it private because I would be taking the priveledge of others to read my journal. That is just about the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
I have a journal, which I use to vent my thoughts. I do allow others to read it because while it is personal, it is something I would tell anyone who asks. So what I want to know is why you think it is not my choice who reads my journal, since everyone, according to you, should have the chance?
And I am sorry if I interperated what you said differently then you intended, so tell me if that is the case.
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Of course if you don't want to them to read it then you should lock it. (but if that's the case then I would argue that that's the stupidest question I've ... well, heard in a while anyway ;-)).
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However, what I meant was that you shouldn't be pressured by people saying that they *don't* want to read parts of your journal, into making it private - which is what it sounded like was happening. Just because some people don't want to read some bits of your journal, doesn't mean that you should remove the option for others to read it if you originally wanted them to be able to - in that case, it's the people who don't want to read it that have a problem, not you.
In conclusion then - it *is* your choice who can read your journal, and it seemed like someone else was trying to take that choice away from you and convince you that you should make it private even though you didn't particularly want to, which is what I thought was wrong.
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