*g* Yes, I sometimes share bits and pieces under f-lock, but it's hardly ever more than "have a pic of my cat" or "wanna hear a funny thing that happened on my way to work today?"
I think I've always taken the escapist approach as far as LJ was concerned: my journal is my "happy place", the place where I can get a break from my real life for a while and just do things I enjoy doing - not necessarily only when RL is going badly, but during difficult times, I always found it comforting that this was the place where my RL difficulties couldn't reach me and I could forget about them for a while.
The other thing is that I don't think I'm very good with expressing emotions when it comes to myself - perhaps one of the reasons why I write fiction, because I find it much easier to express the feelings of a fictional character. (In that vein, I always read your personal posts, and I often feel that I want to say something and end up not doing it because I don't know what and am afraid of saying the wrong thing. But I want you to know I'm reading them, and thinking of you, okay? *hugs*)
Facebook makes my skin crawl. So far, I've valiantly resisted all attempts from friends so lure me into getting an account, and at the moment, I'm in a huge fight with a colleague who wants to set up a professional facebook platform that would force all his colleagues to get accounts too in order to participate. But I shall dig my heels in and resist once again ;)
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regna
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Date: 2011-04-26 08:47 am (UTC)I think I've always taken the escapist approach as far as LJ was concerned: my journal is my "happy place", the place where I can get a break from my real life for a while and just do things I enjoy doing - not necessarily only when RL is going badly, but during difficult times, I always found it comforting that this was the place where my RL difficulties couldn't reach me and I could forget about them for a while.
The other thing is that I don't think I'm very good with expressing emotions when it comes to myself - perhaps one of the reasons why I write fiction, because I find it much easier to express the feelings of a fictional character. (In that vein, I always read your personal posts, and I often feel that I want to say something and end up not doing it because I don't know what and am afraid of saying the wrong thing. But I want you to know I'm reading them, and thinking of you, okay? *hugs*)
Facebook makes my skin crawl. So far, I've valiantly resisted all attempts from friends so lure me into getting an account, and at the moment, I'm in a huge fight with a colleague who wants to set up a professional facebook platform that would force all his colleagues to get accounts too in order to participate. But I shall dig my heels in and resist once again ;)