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if I can take you boy, it just might throw this town

+ ~~Cassie~~ Hannah Murray as Matt Smith's companion? LOL, they must be trying to start wank. People whined because they thought Matt was too young and Hannah's nineteen ... still, if this happens, it might make me poke my head back into that fandom, like I did for Freema. :P

To be honest, I can't see it happening, but it would be better than Kelly Brook or Lily Allen.

+ I got yet another

boxofmagic idea while driving to work this morning, and I think this might be the one. XD It's weird, and I don't know what the pairing(s) will turn out to be, though.

+ Come leave some prompts for some of our

hermionebigbang authors to pick over! Hermione-centric, gen, crossover, or shippy bunnies all welcome, for adoption, feeding, or breeding purposes. Whether or not you're participating there must be something you want to see. ;)

+ Question: There's been random friending by Russian journals and empty accounts, and various other weirdness happening here and elsewhere on LJ, so I'm thinking of friends-locking my journal (except for the fic and icons). Of curiosity, why do you guys lock your journals or if you don't what made you decide not to? (Just generally speaking; obvs I don't need to know exactly what caused the decision. :P) I've thought about it a couple times before, but haven't ever gone through with it. I hesitate because ... well, I don't know. I just don't like the idea of locking everything down and I don't have a lot of personal stuff on here, and yet, recent happenings are making me consider it.

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For a long time I didn't want my journal locked...and I left it open as long as I could.

I finally decided to lock it this winter...one reason was because of the increasing number of troll activity. I was getting a growing number of random troll friends, or anonymous comments, and I wasn't cool with that. The second was, I was using it for more personal stuff that I didn't want spread all over.

Anyway, now that it's locked I can't imagine it that I ever had it open! When I look at some of the stuff I posted, I don't know what was in my head when I made it public. I moved my icons to a public location, but for the personal stuff, I can't imagine ever going back. The people on my friends list I trust, and having it locked protects you from the trolls or trouble causers...not to mention, those who take the time to read your profile and friend you usually are more interested in getting to know you than just a random passerby trying to build a friends list quick.

Ooooh. I have never watched Dr. Who (I don't really even know what it is) but I do love Hannah Murray. As you know. :p

I keep mine locked up tight for personal reasons. I use mine as an actual journal sometimes, and that doesn't need to be broadcast to everyone. Otherwise, I just like to know who's reading my stuff. The troll thing didn't even occur to me but I'm glad I'm locked up anyway.

I locked mine for several months last year due to a possible RL privacy breach. I was worried that my adult fic would be discovered by family members. But I really hated having it locked. My journal hardly contains any private stuff that I'm worried for (and what little there was, was filtered anyway), and the fic – well I wrote it to share it, and putting it under lock is counterproductive to that. Nor was I happy to take the "friend me to gain access to my fic" approach, as I like my shy lurkers and felt bad about blackmailing them to come out in the open. I had to change my username to be comfortable unlocking my journal again, which sucks a bit, but it was worth it to me.

I'm not so worried about the bot journals now that I've read some good advice on recognising and handling them. (I report them at once, and they're almost always suspended within a week or two.) I wouldn't friend back an empty journal or anything written in all Cyrillics anyway as there'd be no point, and as long as the bots aren't friended back and given access there's nothing they can do that they can't also do if your journal is locked (i.e. add you).

I've never had trolls comment, but I can say for certain that if I ever start using my journal for personal entries or anything not strictly fandom related, I will lock and filter. It feels icky having stuff like that out in the open. The climate online has definitely changed, or else I've just lost my innocence somewhere along the way – six years ago when I first started keeping an LJ journal, I wrote in detail about my personal life (granted without names given) with very little worry at all.

It can be a tricky balance to strike – good luck with deciding the way that works best for you. :)

The random russian journals are bots which help people hack into your journal and the journals of people on your f-list so - not that you would - but don't friend them back.

I friends locked my journal just before I went to Thailand on my gap year, to stop my family from connecting my travel blog (which was also on LJ) with my personal journal - and so that, even if they DID find it, they wouldn't be able to read any of the important stuff.

I leave some of my posts unlocked - all my fic, some of my rants and political stuff. The vast majority of it is locked though, just because of the sheer amount of personal information I put on there. My journal is three years old and in the course of that time I've not only tracked my day-to-day life (so a stranger could find out significant amounts of my history) but some really closely guarded stuff as well. I mean, if someone WANTED to know a lot of stuff about me and they connected me to my journal and it wasn't friends locked, they'd be able to find out a HUGE amount about me just by reading it. The test is whether you'd be comfortable if someone you didn't really want knowing you (some creepy male acquaintance, for instance) found your journal, knew it was yours and read it.

(Also, yes - Hannah Murray would cause SO MUCH wank. They'd better NOT cast someone that young, though - seriously, DW would start looking like Hollyoaks with aliens and it would lose a bunch of its audience who would write it off as a tweens show. They need someone older than Matt Smith, to ballance it out, I think. Catherine Tate would have been brilliant if she'd stuck around...)

I watched Doctor Who for a while. Hannah might actually be good for that type of show, she's quirky like Matt, but she's SO young. I love her too, though -- and so does a certain someone (who actually owes her a tag omg). >_>

It'd good to know who's reading. I guess I just assume the people who've friended me are reading and no one else would really care. But this may be naive of me. :P

Yeah, I think the biggest worry for me is getting hacked or having my family and/or creepy people in RL read what's in here. Also, I suspect Livejournal is now on this kick where they want to be more like Facebook and all social network-like -- and I like LJ because it's NOT that way, you know? I really don't WANT my ex finding this like he found my Facebook. *eyeroll*

(LOL, I think 'Hollyoaks with aliens' might be the funniest comment I've read today.)

I've never F-locked my journal. There's just not really any way that I could because I'm not able to friend back everyone who has me friended. I generally post some personal things but it isn't anything that secretive. If I posted anything really private, I might consider locking those posts. For now, I haven't had any issues. That could change, of course. I think you should do whatever makes you feel the most comfortable.

Well, I used to make everything public (but then again I was 14 at the time and didn't see a problem with it), which resulted in my having a stalker who would IM me and go into great detail about my life. I realized, hey it's not so great having total strangers know what's going on with me (lol), so I locked pretty much everything in my journal. That was, of course, six years ago and now I only lock things that are really personal. Everything else having to do with fandoms or picspams or fanmixes I go ahead and make public.

I've been noticing all that weirdness lately too :( I never usually add those people back, but it's irritating having them on my friend of list and not being able to do anything about it, lol.

Also, I saw that Hannah news the other day! I actually really loved her as Cassie and wouldn't generally having a problem with her being the companion, but it would be weird having so many young people on Doctor Who.. I don't know.

Haha don't worry about the tag. I haven't been feeling super creative or Luna-zen lately so no big.

It may be naive, idk. I read a couple journals that I'm not friends with.

The way to prevent getting hacked is to answer the new (and therefore not there when you signed up) security question for changing email, and to also make sure any old emails associated with the account are secure and/or removed from LJ.

The way to prevent being found by really stupid means is to make sure you answered the "find by email" question NO.

Well, and in your case, possibly not have a username that is identifitastic. ;)

I lock stuff about family, work, and other people's stuff they might not want shared with the world at large. And of course, any time I'm being wanky so FW can't link.

You can ban_set them so they don't SHOW on your f-of list. Admin console, ban_set [username]--the FAQ probably explains this.

Yeah, I got randomly friended by some oddball Russian (and not-Russian) journals too. I friends-lock my LJ whenever I post something significantly personal about myself, DH or DD. Stuff that's really generic, like comments on movies and TV, I usually don't lock. I haven't felt a need to go completely friends-only, though a few years ago someone harassed me in comments on my LJ so I started logging all IP addresses and not allowing anonymous comments.

*snort* My username is pretty identifiable, I know. At least my first name is shared by probably millions of people. I actually really want to buy a name change token, but then I worry about people not knowing who I am anymore. :P

I friends lock my journal mostly because I talk about work and personal stuff sometimes. Also a few years ago my brother had a LJ account and I didn't really feel like he needed to read what I was writing about! Plus there were a few people back home, who I am friends with but not close friends, who have LJ and I felt like they didn't need to read about my emotional breakdowns and freak outs I have from time to time. lol.

Heh, not like my answer is anything revolutionary - long as it is. So far, I don't really lock anything, because I don't do too much non-fandom/non-generic. The only locked posts are really those that mention in any way what I do for a living as that's about the only personal thing I've ever really talked about on LJ that signifies (well, or anything the least bit more specific than my nationality). Even with that, I really do wish at times I would have filtered that a lot more, and locked more things as well. The reason I was more ~~stupid~~ lax is majority of my flist is people that I tend to (sort of) know in some way, but for most people that really doesn't mean anything - and it isn't everybody. It's sort of surprising in that I'm usually incredibly anal about anything identifying.

Well, except the time I was sending in a fic for an exchange at about 3am and managed to use my real-life email account *headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk*.

(I wish too I'd gone by more of a pseudonym online for, but I didn't think of making up a first name when it came to RP - and it's rather hard to go by "Idea", ha. It's not like my first name is Princess Conzeula in terms of orginality *snort*, but still. If only I'd known that I would ever...well, do anything besides stalk, when I created my LJ)

Maybe I'm just lucky that I tend to fly entirely under the radar ;)

I really wish I knew what was going on with the random (usually Russian) journals. The friending/unfriending has been going on for a long time, but last week I was getting personal messages in Russian and the like as well.

Heh, on the casting. I would somehow doubt it's going to happen, but I've been horrifically wrong before. Then again, if they want "implied" shipping like they seem keen on, it's not like they can use a woman as it would just seem *cough* cougar-like.

Oh I love her. Yeah, okay that might actually make me tempted to start watching again.

I locked my journal pretty much because the same thing started happening to me along with some weird angry people who just seemed to want to use their journal solely as a way to bitch about their partners. Which is fine but I don't see why they felt the need to tell hundreds of random peple about it and really not something I want on my flist, particularly when their bitching about their wife letting herself go while she's raising a young family. I'm pretty antisocial as well, I don't trust people easily and I just wanted my jornal to be somewhere I felt - secure and happy sounds like I have more issues than I really have, but it's partly true. I like having a smallish flist - it's manageable and you get to know people easier. Plus there's a girl at work who actively will go and search for colleagues on the net and I really didn't want her stumbling across my lj.

Yeah, I think I'm logging IP addresses, and I can't remember if I'm screening anons. Might be a good thing to do, though. I'm leaning towards not locking (or locking selectively), and just being more careful.

LOL. Yeah. If I my family had livejournals, I would've locked this puppy AGES ago. ;)

Yeah, that's me - not very much personal stuff on here. When I first got this LJ I didn't much care, I was mostly using it to comment in other places or follow communities, and I wasn't posting fic here. But now I feel like LJ is getting bigger and bigger and more well-known elsewhere on the internet, so I'm wondering if the chances of being found here are higher than they used to be.

(and oh man, my LJ name is such a source of conflict for me. I want to change it so much, but then I think no-one will know who I am anymore. LOL.

Re: the casting, I just think she's WAY too young. Matt's 26, I think? So he's got seven years on her -- but he could realistically have a companion in her thirties or something, without it being cougar-like for implied shipping. Implied shipping with a nineteen year old might be even weirder.

I think those reasons are good ones. There's some stuff I just don't particularly want to see on my f-list either; and there's nothing wrong with being selective about your space, you now?

I... really hope no one at my job is trying to find people on the internet! LOL.

You've definitely hit all the reasons why I hesitate to lock my journal down! It does seem sort of blackmail-esque to me (just when it comes to the fic in particular, which I can't imagine ever locking up). It must have really sucked to have to do that, and yet, I would've absolutely done the same thing if my family were that close to finding everything.

I've had a few people follow me here from other communities and comment anonymously, but it's rare. The climate on LJ is changing though, and part of it's because it's growing so quickly. More people know about LJ than used to.

Thanks for the advice! ♥ I'm leaning towards keeping it open and just locking selectively, but based on some of yall's input, there are some things I think I need to be more careful about.

I'm hoping LJ stays uh, well, anonymous. I was having issues with facebook with people stalking me down that...well, shouldn't have been, and I've limited that now with the few measures they have. At least you can't search by personal info/names on LJ, but I still would have nightmares if somebody found me on here. Please LJ, don't try to become a social network like that.

And well re: Dr Who and implied shipping, I think they have no problem with the older male/younger woman (well, the 900 yr old part aside, ha). Even if Billie Piper was...I think 23-ish at the time, her character was supposed to be 19, and either way they implied shipping with her and both Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant who had 11 and 18 years respectively on Billie Piper. Then again, there was Catherine Tate...

Heh, I also thought Matt Smith was even younger than that. Why, I'm not sure.

I think she does look way too young though. Her 19 looks about 15, so...yeah. It's all personal preference. I would prefer somebody older. At least though they're not going the kid kid route. I can say I know I wouldn't like that much.

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