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It's All About Me
May. 19th, 2006 06:14 pmRe-reading my 10 things meme made me realize how little those had to do with the actual person they were geared to and how much they had to do with my relationship to my idea of them. That's not news really, as all our opinions of other people (we know casually) are really about us and our perceptions of them. You can't truly know someone else casually - especially in a medium like LJ.
I love LJ because it gives you glimpses into other people's lives but I know my journal is so filtered in terms of content that the views of me it gives are pretty slanted if not totally bipolar. Most of the things that would give you a full insight into my head are marked private. I don't want to journal and worry about offending someone or opening myself up for hurt in unintended ways. People really close to me get to know more of me and that's the way it should be, I think.
I spill a lot of bile in here with more than a dash of melodrama and hyperbole for spice. It's a safe place to get it out of my head. That is also why people I see regularly aren't on my friend's list. I post a lot of things in order to get them out of my head and move on. They're fleeting and somewhat extreme sounding thoughts that I don't want bouncing around in my head. Other people may just think "why do they keep calling me?" and move on. I need to get it out of my system here.
Other people may have similar approaches to LJ and, not knowing that, I base my perception of them on what I read. This reaction is really about what of myself I see in them/their posts. Which isn't to say there's no value in that. It's actually a pretty cool tool.
I love LJ because it gives you glimpses into other people's lives but I know my journal is so filtered in terms of content that the views of me it gives are pretty slanted if not totally bipolar. Most of the things that would give you a full insight into my head are marked private. I don't want to journal and worry about offending someone or opening myself up for hurt in unintended ways. People really close to me get to know more of me and that's the way it should be, I think.
I spill a lot of bile in here with more than a dash of melodrama and hyperbole for spice. It's a safe place to get it out of my head. That is also why people I see regularly aren't on my friend's list. I post a lot of things in order to get them out of my head and move on. They're fleeting and somewhat extreme sounding thoughts that I don't want bouncing around in my head. Other people may just think "why do they keep calling me?" and move on. I need to get it out of my system here.
Other people may have similar approaches to LJ and, not knowing that, I base my perception of them on what I read. This reaction is really about what of myself I see in them/their posts. Which isn't to say there's no value in that. It's actually a pretty cool tool.
