Root Cause of Teenage Drama: "LiveJournal," "Xanga," "Facebook," and "Blogs"

After some of my own personal experience with "Livejournal," I decided that writing your opinions about what has happened to you throughout the day can cause way too much drama.  Everyone will have an opionion about your opinion, and not everyone will have a favorable opionion of it. 
  
Two years ago I was a junior in high school.  I was in the middle of directing a scene for our version of "Saturday Night Live," and one of the other directors had scheduled one of the girls in my scene for their scene at the exact same time, and they said they will send them over halfway through the period to rehearse with me.  That didn't happen, and I was starting to get upset about it, and I remember thinking, "I will livejournal about this!"  Well after posting a not so nice, angry entry about the other director and the actor, they all started posting about me and saying that I was horrible and mean.  This also had a chain-reaction of events, and people I didn't even know were responding telling them that I was mean and horrible.   I actually lost at least 4 friends in the progress of this drama, and I never regained those people's friendship.

My advice to anyone who blogs about their daily life: if you are going to rant, make it a private entry.  This will save you much angst, and won't hurt other people. 

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dagray688's picture

Ya, this is true. If you have LiveJournal, Xanga, or any of the other sites, you should watch what you say. Some of your personal feelings aren't ment to be made public, and you may recieve harsh critizism for some of the things you put out there.

This is definently true and I generally go through cycles of becoming disinterested in the whole "livejournal-clique" that exists at my school. I've found that quite a few people have said things in real life and then shown their true colors online.

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