save your sanity for later.

If you still have a LJ account (for you DWers) or if you are reading this on LJ, and have ever paid by credit card for anything on LJ——

CHECK YOUR ACCOUNT STATUS PAGE.

Some people's 'automatic payments' have been turned back on* without their consent.

*In some cases, even if they were NEVER ON IN THE FIRST PLACE.

(In related news, I'm just facepalming at the amount of fail here. This latest fuckup by LJ just happens to be actively illegal.)

Wow, LJ fail. (Shock! SHOCK!)

IN A NEWS POST, they wrote "Want to make the most of those mood swings?"

Want to make the most of those mood swings?

How flippant about mental illness can you be, seriously?

I mean, they wrote it as an intro to talking about how you can use mood themes, which, whatever, they want to promote the features of their site, but ... really? REALLY?!

Whatevs. I'll just be over here shaking my head & glad that I'm on DW about 1000x more than LJ these days. If you need an invite code for Dw, hit me up in the comments. (You can import your lj, if you're worried about that.)

A friend of mine, whom you may know as Javina, has been talking about privacy in the wake of some problems involving her journals being used as ammunition against her new girlfriend by that girlfriend's ex, along with her 10 year journalling anniversary, and in a roundabout way has asked for my opinion, as someone who's mildly infamous for saying exactly whatever the fuck I feel like.

So. Privacy and honesty. It comes down to: Why journal, if someone's going to use it against you? Why not just write things down privately, and keep it for yourself? In the end, I write this journal for myself, but not only for myself as I exist right now. I also write for the me that will be in the future and the other people who will read this entry at whatever time.

Why do it? Because, in my life and in my mind, ( honesty gets too damn rare. )