Wow, that's some dust bunny hiding under this journal.  

I love the concept of LiveJournal as it pertains to community.  I especially love the friendslist (even if I dislike the use of the word "friends" in this context) and the ability to create reading lists.

However, it's the journal concept of LiveJournal that I've been a little slow on.

So I'm resolving to change that.  Starting with a name change.  No more wanna_write, although I still do want to write.  This ties this journal in with my other home on the net, http://londonwriting.blogspot.com, which I use to (occasionally) journal my expat experience. 

I never know whether to use my real name or not on the internet.  Caution and a healthy fear of identity theft (I've had brushes with it in the past) have kept me semi-anonymous.  Plus, I have an unusual name, both first and last, so I tend to shy from putting my name out there because if I do something stupid or embarrassing (and I will), it's pretty hard to say, "Oh, no, that was the OTHER person who shares my name!"  Also, there's the whole connectedness thing I like about LiveJournal, but what if people come here and, like, hate me?  I do tend to err on the sarcastic and over-dramatic-for-the-sake-of-making-a-point side, after all.   After all, the internet doesn't come with video screens - yet - and so you can't see my expressions.

Wired had an interesting article about misreading e-mail.  According to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , in a recent study people only correctly interpreted the sender's ton 50% of the time.   But they think they correctly interpreted it 90% of the time.

Inbetween, lie the flame wars.  :-)

I've been in a few scuffles and I've seen my share of verbal fisticuffs, which is another reason to keep quiet on the journal front.  After all, what if I say or do something stupid in the heat of the moment   and the world de-"friends" me?  I shouldn't care - well, yeah, I know I shouldn't, but I'm pretty hard-wired to want people to like me.  But nothing ventured, nothing gained, and all those cliches.