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Double Exposure
Jul. 10th, 2002 10:05 amMy mother-in-law is an academic whose specialty is autobiography. I'm not quite sure how it came up - something about what kinds of World Tree things Bard and I are doing these days, and his fictional journal for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sythry - but we ended up talking to her about the LiveJournal phenomenon. She was very intrigued by the idea of people putting extremely personal journals on public display, for feedback and review, for an unknown, but potentially unlimited audience. She was astounded to hear that even just on one of the major services, there are 500,000 accounts. She thought she might need to somehow include something about this in her class curricula.
( It wasn't long into this discussion that we realized we'd have to show it to her... )
sythry - but we ended up talking to her about the LiveJournal phenomenon. She was very intrigued by the idea of people putting extremely personal journals on public display, for feedback and review, for an unknown, but potentially unlimited audience. She was astounded to hear that even just on one of the major services, there are 500,000 accounts. She thought she might need to somehow include something about this in her class curricula.( It wasn't long into this discussion that we realized we'd have to show it to her... )
