Innovative form of mass personal communication, or convenient means of prideful self-promotion, or simple voyeurism? Discuss.
<img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/tenchimaru/td.gif”> All 3 squished together in the same package, now with bonus angsty lyrics!
…pretty much just a diary, only you don’t get mad when people read it.
Originally posted by Tenchimaru Draconis
[b]<img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/tenchimaru/td.gif”> All 3 squished together in the same package, now with bonus angsty lyrics!…pretty much just a diary, only you don’t get mad when people read it. [/b]
Because, in fact, that’s the goal.
[They’re fun to rant in, but its pretty pointless to expect anyone to actually read yours.
>_<](http://eviltim.pitas.com)
Originally posted by Devillion
[b][They’re fun to rant in, but its pretty pointless to expect anyone to actually read yours.>_<](http://eviltim.pitas.com) [/b]
I only give my live journal link to my FRIENDS- not a bunch of random people in a forum. 
EDIT: Oh, and if you DO want the link for some ungodly reason- PM me.
That’s fair enough, but what gets me are the people (and there are some) who have an online journal, but password protect it and give no one the password, effectively (in that I mean fully) making it for their eyes only.
Which raises the question- have they never bloody heard of pen and paper? It’s a lot more reliable than some bloody webserver, too. :thud:
Here’s mine. Feel free to leave as many flames as you want on the tag board. It’s not like I write anything important in there anyway. :ah-ha!:
Depends on what you use it for. Mine is usually for random musings too random for the board, or for my group of FFnet contacts.
No one reads them.
Edit: Unless it’s outstandingly stupid. Then it may or may not become an object of ridicule.
I wouldn’t exactly call it the same as an electric diary or whatnot. On the journals, you write stuff that you either wouldn’t mind or that you want people to see. One generally doesn’t write his innermost thoughts, desires, and fears where people involved with such thoughs can see them.
Satirical ones can be amusing too
(Okay, only about four people I know will get the satire behind the example above, but at least I get to blind people with the background. 
Originally posted by Nebagram
[b]Satirical ones can be amusing too(Okay, only about four people I know will get the satire behind the example above, but at least I get to blind people with the background.
OH GOD MY EYES
I know of a community of people who’ve set up a journal to act like a soap opera. Everyone takes a group of characters and interacts with another person’s characters, and tries to make an entertaining/amusing ongoing story from them. We’re still waiting on the results of whether it’s amusing/entertaining to anyone outside the group…
The only way for anyone to see what the hell I’m doing, since conversations suck. 
Also a place to post/read quiz results, so one can take said quizzes and post their results, and on and on in an endless cycle. Because everyone loves quizzes.
Also something to make pretty when I feel like it. And use avatars, cuz avatars are cool.
But NEVER EVER EVER a place to post song lyrics. If I want to know the lyrics of a song, I’ll look them up myself. >.<
She’ll kill me is she seesme link this… >.>;;
Hey, that’s a hot pic of Mr. Wood there. ^^;
Love of Mr Wood runs deep in the community I find myself part of. I am one of only two guys there, so I’m either really lucky or really unfortunate.:too bad;
i like online journals. I actually have more of a weblog though. It just a place to type stuff in so I won’t forget
Originally posted by YourWorstEnemy
i like online journals. I actually have more of a weblog though. It just a place to type stuff in so I won’t forget
What’s the difference.
…Seriously, what is it? I dunno.::doh::
Originally posted by YourWorstEnemy
i like online journals. I actually have more of a weblog though. It just a place to type stuff in so I won’t forget
I think they are the same thing.
They give me something to do when I’m bored. That’s why I have mine, not that it was the reason why I first got it. I’ll type something into every now and then, sometimes to just rant and sometimes to let people know something.
Prideful self-promotion… heh…
Seriously, I wouldn’t say all of them are exclusively that, though it does play a very large component. From what I’ve seen most online journals tend to be social tools. A bunch of online or real life friends will all create journals and list each other as friends, then try to express certain things about themselves and their lives in the way that they want those things to be expressed, to the people who they know will be reading their journals.