Info needed on Online Journals, please?

[intrigued]

Recently I read something here about someone using online journals, and I really didn't have a clue how it works, and how one gets one? I am in dire, dire need. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[sheath]

Hello, darlin'.

I have an online journal. For security reasons, the link has been removed temporarily from my signature line, but I will send you the link so you can see how it looks.

www.livejournal.com has always worked for me. It is very easy to handle, and allows a huge array of options. You can choose who you allow to see the journal, you can make it completely private, or you can let it remain public. You can choose whether to allow people to respond, and how to allow them to do that. It is a very flexible site. They also have a pay option, which allows you more options, but I have found the free option works just fine for my needs.

Good luck. And gimme the link when you start it.

S.

 

[intrigued]

Sheath, I just knew I could count on you if you responded, to answer every single question I have! Thank you, and might I add that you read me like a book. You KNOW I have to get this crap out, don't you?

I'm on my way to check it out, and I will most certainly send you my link.

I do feel a little torn as to how to handle whether or not to offer someone my link. How do you know if they wanna peek in even for a second? I'd hate to asume they did and be wrong, so I'm not sure how to handle that part of it.

Thanks sweets, very much!

 

[sheath]

I have learned those who really want to see what your life is like outside of Lit will contact you and ask for the link. I did have it on my sig line for a while...and I will post it there again, I'm sure...but the experiences of the last few days have taught me to be VERY careful whom I trust, even in an online capacity.

Perhaps mention on your signature line that you have an online journal, and invite someone to PM you if they want to read it?

Come to think of it, I might do that myself...

It is an excellent place to vent. Boy, have I vented the last few days.

And it is enjoyable.

S.

 

[intrigued]

Then it's perfect for me because in my online life, I am considered a bitch no matter what I say, this will allow me to vent and talk and blurt, in peace.

I love the sigline advice. But ya know, I'll be ragged for that, too.

I'm still waiting for you username, sweets, and while I'm in here...mwy, I havn't forgotten the thread you asked me to read. It's slow going, but I've been reading every chance i get. Thanks for the invite.

 

[Etoile]

Hey sheath, can you PM me with your lj username, too? I have a "friends from Lit" friends filter.

I will add that LiveJournal is not the only place to keep a journal, but it might well be the most popular. One of the reasons I prefer it over Blogger is the community aspect - LJ has so many awesome communities you can join. But they only give you very limited control over the design, unless you pay money. Blogger, on the other hand, lets you design it any way you want. And there are still other services that let you host it on your own site - I use a piece of software called Movable Type in addition to my LiveJournal.

There are probably hundreds of blog hosts right now. There are 78 listed here, so you can pick and choose your favorite.

I happen to know quite a bit about weblogs and online journals. Feel free to ask more specific questions of me, sheath, and anybody else.

 

[intrigued]

Hey sheath, can you PM me with your lj username, too? I have a "friends from Lit" friends filter.

I will add that LiveJournal is not the only place to keep a journal, but it might well be the most popular. One of the reasons I prefer it over Blogger is the community aspect - LJ has so many awesome communities you can join. But they only give you very limited control over the design, unless you pay money. Blogger, on the other hand, lets you design it any way you want. And there are still other services that let you host it on your own site - I use a piece of software called Movable Type in addition to my LiveJournal.

There are probably hundreds of blog hosts right now. There are 78 listed here, so you can pick and choose your favorite.

I happen to know quite a bit about weblogs and online journals. Feel free to ask more specific questions of me, sheath, and anybody else.

Wow, thats wonderful information, thank you. I had no idea this was so popular, and man, am I glad it is. I can't write a story to save my life and most of my poems are just emotional venting. I feel a journal would be really good for me. All these options would enable me to keep out the bad guys, and let in only those I dig. Way cool!

Thank you so much!

 

[Vixandra]

I keep a Xanga journal since all my friends are on that site and its easier to check them all from there then bounce between sites.
www.xanga.com
Tis free and pretty customizable. Mine changes with my AV's which tend to match my Lit ones, LOL.

 

[midwestyankee]

Then it's perfect for me because in my online life, I am considered a bitch no matter what I say, this will allow me to vent and talk and blurt, in peace.

I love the sigline advice. But ya know, I'll be ragged for that, too.

I'm still waiting for you username, sweets, and while I'm in here...mwy, I havn't forgotten the thread you asked me to read. It's slow going, but I've been reading every chance i get. Thanks for the invite.

Good luck with your journal. I started one a few weeks ago - strictly private and it will stay that way - and I find it's an excellent way to remove things that are clogging up your consciousness.

As for that thread - yes, there's plenty to read. You have my permission to skip over all the mentions of baseball and other related tomfoolery that occasionally got posted there.

 

[Etoile]

I keep a Xanga journal since all my friends are on that site and its easier to check them all from there then bounce between sites.

Yup, that's why I still have a LiveJournal. I switched to Movable Type back in 2002 but I'm still updating my LJ daily with mirrors of the MT posts.

 

[Willing and Unsure]

I have a blurty. I rather enjoy it. www.blurty.com

not feeling like talking much now.... so that's it for now about it.

 

[TNRkitect2b]

Hello, darlin'.

I have an online journal. For security reasons, the link has been removed temporarily from my signature line, but I will send you the link so you can see how it looks.

www.livejournal.com has always worked for me. It is very easy to handle, and allows a huge array of options. You can choose who you allow to see the journal, you can make it completely private, or you can let it remain public. You can choose whether to allow people to respond, and how to allow them to do that. It is a very flexible site. They also have a pay option, which allows you more options, but I have found the free option works just fine for my needs.

Good luck. And gimme the link when you start it.

S.

You're welcome for my prodding you to start it dear...

 

[intrigued]

Good luck with your journal. I started one a few weeks ago - strictly private and it will stay that way - and I find it's an excellent way to remove things that are clogging up your consciousness.

As for that thread - yes, there's plenty to read. You have my permission to skip over all the mentions of baseball and other related tomfoolery that occasionally got posted there.

Oh, hon, I'm skipping over most everything except for what YOU said.

Thanks everyone, I am well on my way now, and hot damn, will it feel good.

 

[midwestyankee]

Oh, hon, I'm skipping over most everything except for what YOU said.

Thanks everyone, I am well on my way now, and hot damn, will it feel good.

Don't do that. Many of the finest posts came from others like Wicked Woman, GiveawayGirl, Cathleen, and Dream. They kept me honest and gave me reasons to think harder.

 

[Etoile]

I'm curious, what thread is being referenced? Is it about journaling? Self exploration?

 

[midwestyankee]

I'm curious, what thread is being referenced? Is it about journaling? Self exploration?

I'm sorry. The thread that intrigued and I have mentioned is called Defining Love in the Playground.

 

[SXCRgirl]

I too have an online journal on LJ. I don't post the link here because I just invite people with whom I feel totally comfortable sharing my life and my intimate thoughts.

It's a great tool for venting as it has helped me alot in so many ways. Plus, it also documents your life and you can see your progress (or in my case, my non-progress) with certain issues that you are dealing with.

It's free and you have lots of options as far as customization goes.

 

[intrigued]

I too have an online journal on LJ. I don't post the link here because I just invite people with whom I feel totally comfortable sharing my life and my intimate thoughts.

It's a great tool for venting as it has helped me alot in so many ways. Plus, it also documents your life and you can see your progress (or in my case, my non-progress) with certain issues that you are dealing with.

It's free and you have lots of options as far as customization goes.

Thats exactly what I need. I need a space to speak freely, to pose questions, to offer some sort of ducumentation as to how making my world the world I need it to be, will progress. And I truly need it to be in a safe place in which no one can give me grief and troll me. I jsur want to write and talk, not start wars.

mwy, that thread is quickly becoming close to the top of my top five fav threads. Thank you so much.

 

[BlueSugar]

I have an Lj because my friends from college got me hooked, I ended up making two of them because at one point I just didn't post the way I used to, and I didn't want them to read certain things in it so .. .the new one was born.
I'm a free user, and it works just fine for me, I don't need anything too fancy .. I do enjoy finding the html codes to mess around with its appearance- it can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be -- that is my favorite part.

Its a good way to check up on friends and family from all over ... it seemed that as soon as I made my new one, I was connected and my friends were connected to everyone else ... like that 6 degrees of seperation trick.

My only advice is... if it says that its having trouble or you think it didn't post what you just wrote - it did usually, and after you clicked "enter entry" or whatever it says .. 4 times ... you're going to have a repeating entry .. then ya have to go through the whole thing of deleting them and what not.
Oh... and don't get too addicted

edited to add: there is also deadjournal ... livejournal's cousin site

 

[sheath]

You're welcome for my prodding you to start it dear...

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

S.

 

[intrigued]

Help quick!

I'm at blogger.com and I've gotten through step 1. So far, I've had to pick a screen name, a username, and now in step 2, a name for my blog. Underneath that, it asks for the URL to my blog...how the heck am I supposed to know that? I'm not even finished setting it up????

www.blogger.com

Someone please help me, lol!

 

[intrigued]

I have thoroughly and completely screwed it up, so never mind.

 

[BlueSugar]

Live/Dead journal and xanga (and myspace.com) are like AOL for internet users ... VERY easy, don't get discouraged that quickly

 

[intrigued]

Live/Dead journal and xanga (and myspace.com) are like AOL for internet users ... VERY easy, don't get discouraged that quickly

I've been at it ALL morning, between setting up my blog and trying to set up a new home page for my pics because I don't have enough memory to use the photo option at blog. And now, I have a lovely blog set up, but cannot seem to get logged in. I've been waiting and waiting for them to email me my sign in info, no luck. PLUS, I set up a photo album at yahoo to add to my blog for photos, but the only way anyone can see my yahoo pictures is if I'm logged into yahoo. This means they have access to my account, I know because I've been messing with it for over an hour now. I know something is wrong somewhere, because lots of people have yahoo photo albums, and I've never had access to their account by viewing their album.

UGHUGHUGH!

 

[Etoile]

It's free and you have lots of options as far as customization goes.

I disagree that there are lots of customization options. Free users get a very limited set of templates. Paid users can create their own styles (I made several a couple of years ago) but it's not easy to work with the coding system. Blogger and other services, on the other hand, let you put any HTML you want in there. LJ doesn't even let you have ********** or other fancy stuff, so you can't have rollovers or anything like that.

That said, I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Livejournal. And the diversity of communities cannot be beat.

added: Bwahaha! I didn't realize that Lit won't even let you say that word. The asterisks are supposed to be that scripting language that starts with J and ends with avascript.