My current pet peeve? LJ’ers who angst and whine when they come to the shocking conclusion that even though they call it a “journal”, they are posting their (perhaps) innermost thoughts to a *web page* that anyone in the world can read. And (gasp!) people can link to them too!

Hey, I’ve gone off on this tanget before, but there’s a new twist. Some of these kiddies have taken the attitude of “security through obscurity”, thinking that only a small circle of friends and family will care enough to read their postings, and so refuse to deal with the fact that they are posting on a global medium. The idea that *total strangers* are suddenly reading them and linking to them is met with shock and even a little horror.

To all of these folks, I have to say, thank you. I needed a good laugh.