Privacy thoughts

[wispfox]

This was something that I was putting on my user info page, but thought I also ought to post it. I shall link to it from there, I think.

Privacy thoughts. I'm mostly a very open person. I'm also someone who needs to talk to those I'm close to about stuff. To this end, if you tell me stuff and _don't_ tell me it's not to be shared with those I tend to go to for needed conversation, it's not safe to assume that I won't. I might not; there are things which ping my 'not to be talked about' filters even without it being specifically stated, but I also might. Currently, the "people I regularly talk to about stuff" category includes australian_joe, because, well, partner! I believe it also includes aelisdeliria because she's a good friend and she's my roommate, so she gets to hear my babbles.

There are certainly others that I talk to about stuff, but it's less regular, and therefore much less likely to be hit by the other-people's-privacy-concerns filter.

Anyway, this is not to say that I don't keep secrets, because I do and can - I'm just not the best as being able to tell what people might think should be secret. As well, if you tell me/I experience something which directly affects me, I cannot promise to not talk to australian_joe and/or aelisdeliria about it, because things that affect me need to be talked about. I cannot, and should not for my own sanity, make that promise.

Interestingly, I think I treat aelisdeliria like a local partner, at least as far as what I talk to her about. This is probably because I desperately need that 'who can I talk to _right now_' outlet, and she seems fine with being that for me. I shall go state this to her, now that I've realized it, because it probably needs to be stated and confirmed.

Comments

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

"if you tell me anything, you're also telling it to my primary partner"

*blinkblink* The entire concept is a badness to me, but it got even worse with the rest of the thread...

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Yes. Some people are strange!

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

And this is a prime example of strange in a notgood way. Then again, I also don't understand many people's ability to freely babble about themselves and current thingies in their lives. To anyone and everyone.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* Which, to some extent, I do. :)

*babbly*

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can undeniably babble. I just babble to selective people about selective topics.

And I can also be very quiet.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

I just babble to selective people about selective topics.

So do I. But as compared with many other people, I'm less selective about _which_ topics. (of course, people who only read my LJ _don't_ see how much email, and what the topics there are, I tend to send out in a week. ;)

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

I wasn't directly affected by it; I merely read about it elsewhere, and knew one of the third-parties who were affected by it. So I dunno if I'm remembering or understanding correctly.

But yeah, if it *was* as I've been saying... [shiver]