When People Read Your Personal Journal...

When people read your personal journal ...what are they learning about you anyway?

The theme this past couple of weeks has been the concept/issue of people reading your private journal. For bloggers, we face this every time we post an entry. You can tell the people who have had their share of nutters leaving strange comments or sending emails because they are either very guarded or sometimes they even just say things like "nutters need not comment" when they say something they know readers will react to.

So the blogosphere already deals with the issue of reduced privacy. And of course you never know who is reading you on here ... we have seen bloggin friends sacked for their blogging, disowned by family and friends ... the list goes on. Same rule applies to both blogs and more traditional journals though I reckon ... if you read it ... you take it on yourself to accept what you read. If you don't like it. Don't read it. Easy really.

But what about someone reading your personal thoughts you had written only for you ....? Well once again people who do that are really not nice people in my book. HOWEVER should they read your journal. Smae rule applies. You take what you read. It is like being able to read people's thoughts. Do you REALLY want to know what people think ... honestly ... all the time...

Personally? I prefer to think I am practically perfect in everyway ... and NOT know what people think ... unless I choose to ask. And asking is by far the best way to find out what someone thinks about you or anything else. Reading diaries and journals is a waste of time ...

And if you read mine? Remember I am a writer and I write as much ficiton in my journal as the truth! HA! That'll confuse you!