The first rule should be
Do not air your dirty laundry in public. ‘Cause I have two friends that are having a sadly public breakup, via LiveJournal. And there are far too many interested players and hangers on, mostly because it is all so damm public. (Linking to any of it would just feed the fire. I’m just grumping off.)
I really don’t get the part where *anyone* would want the world (and seeing as this is the web, world here is meant literally) to know certain things about their personal lives. Of course, I’m so close mouthed about my personal life that I rarely tell even my closest friends when there’s trouble at home. (Though as a result, they’ve gotten pretty good at deducing when Bill and I are having a bad day.)