How Do You Feel ABout Sharing Your Journaling?

[AndreaBurns]

I have no probelm writing my journaling on my LO's and sharing them with you all. Not only do I get to also read yours, but you understand where I am coming from as a Scrap Artist. And also b/c you don't really know me, KWIM?

But last weekend I took my Scrapbooks to church to share them, and I felt uncomfortable when some people really took the time to read my journaling... I almost felt like it was my diary, and all I really wanted was for people to look at the pages.

Isn't that weird? What about you?

[Angela]

Yeah...I can see where you'd be uncomfortable. I probably would be, too.

[Andibean]

I feel 100% the way you do, Andrea. Fine on here, not so much when sharing with other outside of close friends and family. And really, I don't even do a lot of journaling often.

[hkrose]

I really don't have any problems sharing my journaling. It's my life and thoughts and if people are taking the time to read them it shows me that they are interested in my life and feelings. I personally journal on almost every page because I feel that's the best way for me not to forget what was going on in that picture/lo. And for me... scrapping is about sharing my life now and in the future so I want people to see my lo's.... if there was something so personal I didn't want anyone to know about it, I would probably journal it somewhere else.

[InLoveWithDOTS]

Isn't that strange we don't mind sharing with strangers but when it comes to "real life" it's much harder?

[Valgal]

I feel the SAME way, yet I thought I was the only one... so thanks for coming out with it, lol! I have NO problem sharing my most deepest secrets online, but when I have company over and they start rifling through my scrapbooks I freeze. I've even started putting the very personal ones away when I know guests are coming over, lol!

[aggietha]

I feel the same way Andrea. I feel no embarrassment when I post my journalling online but I think I would do second thoughts on sharing my LOs to people who know me personally, KWIM?

[noralong]

I even feel that way with my blog. I had to think about it for a while before I decided whether or not I would even tell people I know (in real life, of course!) that I have one. After I thought about it, I decided I didn't care too much. But. when I am in the same room as a person who is looking through my albums, sometimes it feels weird. You know, like people reading a letter you wrote to them, in front of you.

[d2vasquez]

I feel the same way too.....my dh sometimes shows off my gallery to his co-workers or brings my scrapbooks to work and I do feel funny when he tells me about it. Especially when he says that they cried too......it is just weird to feel this way.

[Nonnie917]

Oh WOW! Guess I am the only one who likes to share her scrapbooks with anyone who comes over. They never read the journaling and that is the best part because it tells the story behind each page I scrapped. Guess I am the weired one in the bunch. I have filled 8 CM albums with the vacations we took and one that went from Christmas 1999 to Christmas 2000. That is when we got our mircle surprise that Laura was pregnant with Riley. But, that is another story in itself. :regular_s

[abbysmommy]

I think pretty much exactly like Melissa. :) It doesn't bother me.

[HillsCass]

I think Nora hit it on the head - it IS like them reading something your wrote in front of you. The funny thing is that I had to coach ppl to actually stop and READ the journalling, and then when they started doing it, I felt really odd about it! In person, I am essentially a very private person. You'd never guess out here though! ;)

[chloe]

I don't have this problem about journaling since all LOs I make are to be published online and read by close people and strangers as well. I'm always very careful with my journaling because my family live far away from me and I know they come on TDC and check my LOs quite often, so I have to keep that in mind when I'm doing them. I don't make that difference between sharing with strangers and with close people, but it's true that when I journal (which I don't do much), I think to close people... IYKWIM!