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[andrewducker]

[Poll #783840]

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[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

I think you need a none of the above option to gain any useful data.

[andrewducker]

You can get a total by adding the two figures together for the last question, and then get percentages higher up by hand :->

[wordofblake.livejournal.com]

I was going to say you needed an "Other Family Members" option.

I have told my Mom about my journal but I doubt she remembers where it is.

[dougs.livejournal.com]

For "Parents" read "Parent", for "Siblings" read "Sibling", since only one from each of those sets is online.

It's not sufficient searching for "Douglas Spencer" because the results are polluted by a 1950s actor. You'd have to search for "Douglas Spencer" journal or something similar.

[greengolux.livejournal.com]

My parents and sister all know my journal exists and they could easily find it if there were interested in doing so. I suspect my parents may have gone looking, but I doubt my sister has ever bothered to. I know where her myspace is though. :)

[greengolux.livejournal.com]

Oh, and my journal comes up as the first hit when you google my full name. Dead easy to find.

[andrewducker]

Serves you right for having a wierd name.

(Mine does the same thing)

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Ah, you employment fascist - I have no coworkers (also, what happened to the word "colleague"?). My sister's not really an online person, though she knows I have a journal, and my dad doesn't know my house addres, for fuck's sake.

[andrewducker]

Not sure what happened to colleague - sounds too formal, I suspect. Or Americans don't use it, so I've lost it from my vocabulary.

Does your Dad not know where you live because he's incredibly crap or because you're actively avoiding him?

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

My dad doesn't have my address because he's never quite asked, basically - a combination of the above reasons.

Why is "colleague" intrinsically formal, though?

[andrewducker]

Aaah, you won't give it to him voluntarily and he's too crap to come out and say it. I'm soooo glad I have a good relationship with my folks. Well, as long as we're at opposite ends of the country anyway.

I don't think it's intrinsically formal, it just seems to have passed out of fashion somewhat. Possibly it's because work ties are looser than they used to be - if I said someone was my colleague it would imply (to me) that we worked very closely on an ongoing basis and were basically a team. As I change projects about once a year, and rarely work closely with the same person for more than a couple of months, it more feels like I have co-workers - people that I work with.

Checking a couple of dictionaries, I seem to be associating most with:
"an associate in a profession or in a civil or ecclesiastical office" or "A fellow member of a profession, staff, or academic faculty; an associate."

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

My father has, on occasion, read public parts of my journal. One of my aunts and my grandmother have seen a few public entries. None of them actually follow it, and I beleive they're aware that they're filteredout of most things.

I try to give my real name as little online presence as possible. However, the pseudonym I use is widely known among my family and offline friends, and the last time I checked googling for "Persephone Hazard" gave you nothing that isn't mine. I'm not hard to find!

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I only know for sure that my parents know where it is. But given that it is trivial to find, I would be surprised if nobody else I know by other routes has found it.

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

It used to be easy to find my journal using my name, but I got the link removed, and it no longer shows up.

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

My parents and siblings have been given the URL for my LJ, but my parents aren't on-line and my siblings don't bother. My Australian sisters-in-law, on the other hand, seem to follow my and headgardener's LJs pretty closely.

One or two of my co-workers have in the past been given links to specific entries (because it saved me having to tell them in detail about, e.g., a recent holiday), but I don't think any of them have kept track of my LJ.

I seem to be largely invisible to Google. The top hit* (and it usually doesn't appear until the second page) is a list of reviews I wrote for the BSFA's Vector in the early 1980s. To find my LJ on Google seems to need so much effort that (probably) only those who already know the answer would bother to ask the question.

* The only hit, to be absolutely accurate. But that suits me fine.

[draconid.livejournal.com]

My brother "knows" about it, but probably couldn't remember the address if he tried. He has a journal that I set up for him so that he can read my FO posts, but I don't think he ever does that.

Many of my co-workers know I have a "blog" and some know I use/do Support for LJ. Some know my email address and so might be able to put two and two together and make four. But I don't think most of them are that interested. One co-worker has an LJ herself and definitely knows I have one, but she wants to keep her secret so we haven't exchanged usernames - although we know the location of each other's blogger blogs (not that I ever use mine).

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

My LJ is fairly ungoogleable. However, if you search for my full name + livejournal, you get this post as the top hit, even though it doesn't mention my name anywhere, and now I'm quite curious as to why it does that.

[greengolux.livejournal.com]

Somebody linked to it using your full name? My surname has never been used anywhere on my journal, but it shows up on google, I assume, because people have linked to my journal using my full name.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes - nhw linked it under my full name. Mystery solved!

[pickwick.livejournal.com]

My parents and brother know I have a journal, but I don't think my parents know where it is and I don't think my brother bothers to read it - he's probably forgotten my username anyway.

And you can't find me with google either using my full name or the shortened form I use most often. I thought you could find the latter, but I must have friends-onlied the post that mentioned it, I think.

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

Finding my journal is trivial if you look for "davidcook" - otherwise, I'm invisible in Google terms ("Results 1-30 of 75,300,000 for david cook"-style invisible). Even adding in my (uncommon) middle name doesn't cut down the numbers much, but quoting the full name turns up no hits (which is a little odd, because I did have a resume page up a while back with my full name on it).

[xquiq.livejournal.com]

My parents know where my journal is, but have no interest in this sort of thing and thus no access. I'd be quite happy to share most things with them, however given their propensity to panic if I sound a bit down about work, I'd have to filter some things, as they respond better over the phone.

As for siblings: I haven't got any.

[moniqueleigh]

My LJ doesn't come up at all on Google with my real name. It does using "Monique Leigh," but only due to comments on others' journals.

My brother knows I have LJ & can easily access the address due to MySpace. (Gah. I got an account just so I could read one friend's blog/view her pics, and now I've got family there.... *sigh*) I rather doubt the bro or SIL have ever actually visited my LJ (at least, they've not commented via computer or in person).

Most of the family knows that I have some sort of online presence under this name, but I haven't heard anything from them about journals, LJ in particular, or any other site (except the above-mentioned MS), so I'm guessing they haven't yet found me. Or they're actually *gasp* respecting that it's a journal. Why do I doubt that would happen?

[ninox.livejournal.com]

My mother knows I have one and I have tried to show her, but she can't be bothered with that sort of thing. My dad is a technophobe and avoids computers as much as possible and my sister's laptop has been commandeered at the moment and she doesn't get much of a chance to do stuff online. The can read if they want but are generally uninterested.

I have a name that is pretty common, but I did remove my lj name from google as I know how much people of work like practicing finding information online. I know friends reunited and British Library entries got checked prior to any interviews. I would keep a separate one for work purposes.

[darkoshi]

One of my parents knows of my website, and therefore has access to my journals. My sibling knows of my website, and I also mentioned my LiveJournal to him a long time ago. However, I've no indication that either of them have ever read any of my LJ posts. And they very rarely, if ever, look at my website and the journal page I have on it.

I've come close to mentioning my website to 2 coworkers in the past, but thought better of it.