My brothers read my LJ. My parents know I have one, and could find it if they wanted, but know that I'd rather they didn't read it. (This is actually no longer really true; if they read it, I'd just lock or filter anything I didn't want them to see. I've made vague noises to that effect to my mom, who showed no particular inclination to listen.) I'd vaguely rather my aunts and uncles didn't know, but mostly I'd just want to know if any of them did stumble across it because I like to know who my audience is and whether I should filter certain things. It's not an issue of online life, as such, so much as that I like to be able to have privacy from family.
Beyond that, I friends-lock anything that's even vaguely about work at a level beyond "work was long today," and I try not to mention co-workers by name. This is mostly paranoia, since I don't work the kind of job where anyone would be watching me closely and have never had reason to gripe about the kinds of things I would worry about supervisors or co-workers seeing. It's partly to have that well ingrained as a habit in case I ever do get that kind of job, partly because I'd rather be safe than sorry, and partly because I don't know my co-workers' attitudes towards having their names on the internet. That last bit goes for friends, too -- if I don't know someone's policy on the RL/internet divide, I'm careful not to put up more than their first name sans much in the way of identifying details without checking first.
Beyond that, I'm pretty free with things. I'd lock down my fanfic if I were in the kind of job where I thought having copyright infringement up in public was a less than fantastic idea, but it hasn't been an issue yet. I think if I wrote more fanfic that I'd mind anyone seeing -- more adult-rated stuff, or disturbing beyond mild creepiness, or whatever -- or discussed more sensitive personal issues in my LJ or whatever, I'd lock them down more. But I don't, so I don't.
I have considered going friends-only, occasionally and briefly (and, I admit, in significant part because there are so many pretty friends-only banners around; this shows the level of serious consideration I've given it), and decided immediately against it. I don't mind most of what I write being public; anything I want more private, I'll filter, and I believe in making new friends. I want interesting people to be able to stumble across my journal.
I do halfheartedly try to keep my last name from getting spread too far, particularly since it's not all that common a name. Given that it's part of my primary email address, though, you can see how hard I work at that.
If you mean to what extent do I view my online and RL personas as separate... I don't, really, any more. I used to think that online I was much more cheerful and outgoing, more able to make friends and less likely to sit in a corner being introverted in a crowd. Over the course of my college years, and to a lesser extent after, I caught up to myself. I blame this partly on the increased confidence of having internet friends, and partly on the gradual development of confidence and social skills over the course of time, when I was in an environment (that is, not the town I mostly grew up in) where I had actual close friends. At any rate, I don't see Beth and Gen as separate, really. They're just two different names I use in different contexts.
...This was possibly excessively long-winded. Oh well.
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Beyond that, I friends-lock anything that's even vaguely about work at a level beyond "work was long today," and I try not to mention co-workers by name. This is mostly paranoia, since I don't work the kind of job where anyone would be watching me closely and have never had reason to gripe about the kinds of things I would worry about supervisors or co-workers seeing. It's partly to have that well ingrained as a habit in case I ever do get that kind of job, partly because I'd rather be safe than sorry, and partly because I don't know my co-workers' attitudes towards having their names on the internet. That last bit goes for friends, too -- if I don't know someone's policy on the RL/internet divide, I'm careful not to put up more than their first name sans much in the way of identifying details without checking first.
Beyond that, I'm pretty free with things. I'd lock down my fanfic if I were in the kind of job where I thought having copyright infringement up in public was a less than fantastic idea, but it hasn't been an issue yet. I think if I wrote more fanfic that I'd mind anyone seeing -- more adult-rated stuff, or disturbing beyond mild creepiness, or whatever -- or discussed more sensitive personal issues in my LJ or whatever, I'd lock them down more. But I don't, so I don't.
I have considered going friends-only, occasionally and briefly (and, I admit, in significant part because there are so many pretty friends-only banners around; this shows the level of serious consideration I've given it), and decided immediately against it. I don't mind most of what I write being public; anything I want more private, I'll filter, and I believe in making new friends. I want interesting people to be able to stumble across my journal.
I do halfheartedly try to keep my last name from getting spread too far, particularly since it's not all that common a name. Given that it's part of my primary email address, though, you can see how hard I work at that.
If you mean to what extent do I view my online and RL personas as separate... I don't, really, any more. I used to think that online I was much more cheerful and outgoing, more able to make friends and less likely to sit in a corner being introverted in a crowd. Over the course of my college years, and to a lesser extent after, I caught up to myself. I blame this partly on the increased confidence of having internet friends, and partly on the gradual development of confidence and social skills over the course of time, when I was in an environment (that is, not the town I mostly grew up in) where I had actual close friends. At any rate, I don't see Beth and Gen as separate, really. They're just two different names I use in different contexts.
...This was possibly excessively long-winded. Oh well.