Reply #52: some teens & twenties have a different theory

[pitohui]

some younger people have a theory that if they tell someone not to read their online journal, or if they leave a note saying the journal is "only" to be read by strangers, and not by family or friends, then it is unethical to continue reading if you know the writer

i'm much older so don't get that theory but it's a common one

that's why i ask the age of the diarist downstream, it's two different cultures, the older person like me on lj is happy to have anyone read our cranky productions, the younger people do not agree w this

considering you don't want to estrange yr daughter, i'd respect her wishes on reading the journal