Yawn

[andysocial]

OK, since she is in another state for yet another week, I have way too much time to waste. I've been spending it surfing through Live Journal. Seems reasonable to me.

Apparently, there is some requirement to post a long, interesting only to you, rambling kind of online conversation log in your journal every so often. I'm not sure, but it seems to be mainly observed by the high-school and college-age folks, with an occasional older person posting. Um, why?

I would think that the person on the other end of that private chat usually doesn't expect you to archive and share that conversation with all and sundry. Perhaps I'm wrong in some cases, but I'd be willing to bet that most of the folks who have posted 300 lines from an AIM log file didn't ask if it was ok to share.

If you shared someone's personal snailmail, or recorded a phone conversation for the amusement of others, wouldn't you find that rude? Are there different standards of civilized conduct online compared to the real world?

Do I need to get some sleep?

Comments

Well....

[shannon-elaine.livejournal.com]

Since I am a person guilty of posting IM conversations... I'll explain my reasons.
My husband's ex wife took their child out fo the state. Refused to bring him back, then went to court in her state and got full custody of the child without his father's knowledge. How? She lied to the court and said she had no idea where the father was, so he couldn't be contacted about the hearing.
She continuously shows her ass and proves how vengeful, vindictive, and cruel she really is. Yet she has no come here to LJ and acts all nice and caring and concerned. Working on convincing everyone that she is the person wronged. She did this you see after she found and read my journal and saw that I had shown her IM chats with me to these people. So now her goal is to appear as the good guy and Matt and I as the bad people. So now and then I do still post her IM's to me, or the transcript of a recorded telephone call. Just so it's known that her comments and such here on LJ are just an act to make her look good.
As for them being private, I checked state laws on this. As long as I am a party to the IM or phone call, I can record it and use it however I wish. I don't have to tell the person that I am recording, or saving the IM or phone call, and I don't have to have their permission to use it. OH, and the ex wife has been told, repeatedly that I do save all IM's and record all phone conversations. She doesn't care. Just continues to stick her foot in her mouth.
So, for me, posting those conversations is
1. a way to vent
and
2. proves a point.

Make sense???

[andysocial]

Oh, I know it's legal to share conversations, and in a few cases it makes sense. Certainly your situation is not something that either side could hide. But, many people post conversations that seem totally pointless.

(I've just wandered through my history trying to find an example and can't. Don't you hate that?)

Anyway, if the conversation is used to make a point, and is edited down to a reasonable size (don't think I've ever noticed any of your posts being long for no reason), it makes sense. To post an entire IM you had while you were chatting with some boi that was hitting on you, and the conversation ends up sounding like a junior high school parody, that's questionable.

Not that I am going to tell people what to post on their journals. I hope nobody tells me what to post on my website or journal, and I value the ability of everyone to publish to all. If I don't like it, I just don't go back. Easy. I was just making a random observation.

And, don't get me started on all those silly surveys getting sent through email and then reposted on LJ. Geez. heh