I once read some where that one of the best ways you can become a successful person is to mimic successful people. In terms of the internet, most of the people I know of who are successful in life do not share everything about their lives in places where everyone can see. They instead prefer to keep things behind privacy settings, and I think it's a very good idea. Strangers shouldn't be given access to blog posts about your personal life or know where you are, and what you are doing, 24/7. Too many people share way too much about themselves in blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and many other mediums. Many of the people who are trolled or bullied over the web are usually being attacked because they really ought to keep more things "friend's only".

One of my hopes in posting this here on DA is that more people will follow along and do the same. I have moved personal posts on my LJ to "friends only" and changed my Twitter to private. (Although, it's worth noting that if an LJ post is ever public, even only for an instant, there is a way to find it in the archive.) There are so many people on DA who share way, way too much about their lives. I've also felt from the start that DA journals should be more about art, and less about your personal life, but that is more of a personal preference, really.