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Reading my friends Livejournals, I’ve noticed an interesting trend. It seems there are a lot of people doing the “I rant about my life and if you don’t like it, don’t read my journal” thing lately.
Apparently everyone is convinced that they have mortal enemies, and these enemies are so vile and evil, they actually dedicate significant amounts of their time to reading their journals.
I have a very simple rule about my journal and who may read it and what they should take away from it: If I don’t want someone to read something, I don’t write it. I don’t fear that someone who may harbor less than glorious feelings of love for me might read that I had a crappy day. I learned back in high school that my most bitter enemy probably doesn’t spend more than 5 seconds a day actually thinking about me. It would be a bout of true narcissism to belive anyone who harbors ill will toward me actually takes time out of their day to locate and read my journal. My friends only read my journal because it is posted in a convenient format alongside the journals of many other friends. I certainly wouldn’t take the time to go through all my friends web sites to read their journals individually.