pearwaldorf | Ganked from shadowlight

Why do you keep a journal on LJ?
Because all my friends sucked me in and it's easier than using some other services. The LJ client has spoiled me disgracefully.

Do you keep, or have you kept in the past, a paper journal?
Quite often when I was younger, and full of teenage pane, angest, and miserie. Now it's sporadic.

What, to you, is the primary difference between the two?
The paper journal is a private rumination, and the online journal is a public one, basically. There are things that you would like discussed, and some not, and that's pretty much the difference between where you put them.

How would you characterize the bulk of your LJ entries? (i.e. informational, emotional, chatty, daily, etc.)
Is catankerous ranting a category? Or silly mental detritus?

In keeping a journal on LJ, are you aware, as you write, of having an audience?
Heh. I have people who list me as a friend, if that's what you mean.

How much does that influence what you write here?
Almost everything is public, except the stuff that would take too much time to explain or when I'm being all weirdly emotional and splooshy, which strangers don't need to see.

Do you ever enhance reality in your journal to make for better reading?
My life is boring. People know this. I don't need to pretend otherwise.

How important are responses to you?
It depends. I don't expect people to reply to every little thing, and in fact sometimes it annoys me. Of course, the posts I expect to get responses never do, but that's because I'm an attention whore and need minions to reinforce my perceived brilliance.

Does it matter to you how many people are on your friends list, one way or the other?
I like it when people add me to their friends lists, but I'm not going to add people unless I find them interesting. Besides, my friends list is a bit of an incestuous circle jerk anyways. ^.^

Do you ever post when you don't really feel like it because you feel obligated to?
Actually, I have to stop myself from posting every piece of mental fluff that comes into my head. Believe me, you're better off for it.

Do you ever comment when you don't really feel like it because you feel obligated to?
Not really. Most of the time I want to say something, but I don't know how.

How well do you think that the people who read your journal on a regular basis know you?
A lot of them are old AOL friends, practically my second family, and I live with

agnostic_jihad, so I'd say most of them I know pretty well.

How would you rate your journal compared to those of your friends? (Take into account such things as interest, depth, knowledge, information, and anything else that may apply.)
What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Am I being graded on this? For chrissakes, I thought those silly website reviews were bad enough, much less reviews of journals.

To what degree, if any, are you on LJ for social reasons?
Almost largely social. This is how I keep in touch with most of my old friends, and I've found so many interesting people. It has given me hope for the future of journaling. ^.^