One of the reasons my journal is almost entirely public is, I want people to read the stuff I write. Which means that I have to make choices about what I write *about*. So yeah--books and movies and "this is how I write" and "ooh look at the pretty ponies" and "let me tell you about my cats."

There is very little truly personal content on my journal, and again, when there is I tend to friends-lock it, or if it's personal enough I set it to private. i don't mind occasionally letting out some information about my teenage angst or whatever from twenty years ago--like a lot of people, I am still shaped by my childhood and it's kind of interesting to look at from a safe distance. I don't mind letting the world know about my disc injury--who cares, really.

But there's all sorts of information I don't need to share on my blog, and I'm sure the people I am not sharing it with would be suitably grateful if they knew what they were being spared...