Is it a file cabinet, or a closet?

[serinde]

There's a trend for people to have separate LJs (or whatever) for different aspects of their lives. Some do it as a way of not flooding their readership with what they feel might be uninteresting data about diet, organization, work, etc. Others do it as a privacy measure, to keep readership group A separate from readership group B.

I never have considered this, because a) I'm not exactly Posty McPoster in the first place so I don't reckon there's any danger of your entire friends page being made up of All Me, and b) I feel strongly, or perhaps "mulish" is more accurate, about not having to deny, conceal, or even draw a filmy scarf of edge-blurring over any part of who I am. I'm fortunate enough in my work and surrounds that there aren't any potential real-life consequences (and I do realize how lucky I am in that regard), so there did not seem to be any practical reason to do so, my inclinations aside.

On the third hand... Though I am a good bunny and put raunchy stuff under an LJ-cut and mark it clearly, thus rendering my journal safe for consumption by those who may not want to know that much about me Thank You Very Much And Good Night, I know and you know that when the link is sitting there, alluring in its seductive not-clicked-on color, even if you are pretty sure you don't want to know, there's a good 85% chance *at least* that you'll click on it. This isn't me being egotistical; it's not got to do with my journal in particular, it's that irresistible urge of the slightly-opened diary. And I wonder whether it might not be a more courteous course of action to withdraw all that sort of content to a wholly separate location, much in the same spirit that I take care to put away the sex toys and the nekkid art books when Grandma comes to visit, not because I'm ashamed of who I am, but because I know her boundaries are in a very different place and I love her and don't want her to be uncomfortable. But: Is that what it is? Or am I ghettoizing my raunchy, kinky, sex-oriented self? Also--am I unconsciously censoring myself here, and would I feel freer to post more in a separate location? (That last is not a question for YOU lot. In case it wasn't clear. Ahem.)

Therefore:
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Comments

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I know that's another solution a lot of people use, but I have this mortal horror of being a dumbass and forgetting to set a filter. (Possibly this is what we call "overreacting over small item", I admit.)

[pir.livejournal.com]

Is it really any different from the risk of posting ot the wrong journal?

I'd say don't post anything somewhere on the Internet that you'd be really worried about random people reading...