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Fahye ([personal profile] fahye) wrote2007-01-29 08:20 pm

question

This is something that makes me very curious: to what extent do you try to keep your online life/persona separate from your RL one, and why?

I realise that there are many legitimate and important reasons, but I don't make any efforts in that direction whatsoever, so it's interesting to me. I wouldn't care at ALL if anyone I knew in real life, including any members of my family, were to find this blog. The things I write and the opinions I have are every bit as much me as the person who goes to uni and sings in a choir and...I don't have a lot of time for anyone who'd judge me on it.

Maybe it's because I was introduced to LJ by RL friends. Maybe it's that I'm not in a Real Job. Anyway. Talk to me, flist.

[identity profile] tammaiya.livejournal.com 2007-01-29 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I know. D: In theory I'd be happy to be open about it and I don't want to be more than acquaintances with anyone who'd be a dick about it-- happily I have awesome uni friends who are all cool with it, I'd told them all by about the end of first year-- but, with law particularly, I have to keep in mind the uncomfortable reality that I may end up having to work with a lot of these people or in the same professional community as them, so I've got to be slightly more careful than I otherwise might. Also I just don't like unnecessary confrontation, so I'll start a fight with someone in a lecture about their stance on something, but I won't go out of my way to test it by telling people my sexuality with no prompting. It's none of their business anyway.