WELCOME TO MY SECRET CLUB!!!

[captain_slinky]

I used to have all my Livejournal posts automatically cross-post to Facebook, but tonight I decided to drop that. Since the whole thing with my Dad having his stroke (OMH I FORGOT TO TELL LJ THAT MY DAD HAD A STROKE LAST WEEK), there are way too many family members watching and judging my every move over there.

So from now on, FaceBook and LJ will be seperate-but-equal parts of the Internet Mullet; Business up front (FB), Party in the rear (LJ)!

Maybe half of you who see my posts HERE are also friends on FaceBook. Let's just keep this our little secret, shall we? This will be my place where I can be inappropriate, rude, vent, yell, whatever. And you, my truested long-time LJ friends, will be the only ones to witness it!

Some things will still get cross-posted, but if they do it'll be on *purpose* instead of just automatically done for me.

I love and miss the freedom to write that LJ gives me! Freedom to expand! Freedom to be anonymous! Freedom to just be ME! I had forgotten how good it feels to just WRITE!

The post I made just a few minutes ago, the one about Molly's first comic book experience... I had finished writing it in just 3 lines because FaceBook has forced me to think like that. So I went back and filled in the details. Why was this important to me? How was this different? What did she get? These are the things I'll want to remember some day.

I hope I never forget that again.

Comments

[pete23.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you've nailed it.

FB has family and work and real names and 400 characters to update in.

LJ doesn't.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

And best of all, if I ever need any Russian Viagra? LJ has my hook-up ;)

[bghsmith.livejournal.com]

I was going to "Like" this, but, you know, LJ.

[khristle.livejournal.com]

You'll want to remember to lock you LJ posts!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I'm not so sure if I need to lock my LJ posts... anybody who's over here and reading is pretty much the type of person who can "take it". I'm not PLANNING on doing anything outrageous over here, I just like the freedom of knowing that I don't have to consider the feelings of every "grown-up" who was ever involved in my life getting involved and influencing my writing. "I can't write it THAT way, Mom won't get it. I can't write it THAT way, folks from Ohio will be confused. Can't write it THAT way, no one will read it".

Actually, THAT was the worst thing I caught myself doing; truncating my entries because I wanted more people to read it so they'd be more likely tro comment. I was becoming a COMMENT WHORE!

[sasjhwa.livejournal.com]

I've been practicing the secret handshake, but my secret decoder ring only seems to translate Klingon into Vulcan and back again.