The Optimistic Pessimist.™

Welcome to all the new Vox neighbors! Vox is now a public blogging community and you have joined it and found your way, through a few well navigated clicks, to my home.

You might notice, there aren't very many posts here available for your reading pleasure, but rest assured, there are posts. Now that Vox has gone public, my very pessimistic paranoid side of me has decided that it'd feel much safer if this blog were meant for only friends & family reading. This gives you a first-hand experience of the available privacy features here on Vox ;-)

Hey, where you going? It doesn't mean that I'm not willing to get to know new people, or even post certain things publicly, it just means I'll be careful not to post things too personal to people who I've not come to know or approve of. Catch my drift?

Pull up a chair, let's have a chat. I'm more than happy to let you add me to your neighborhood and return the gesture. Do you deserve to be in my "circle of trust"?

Enjoy your time in the neighborhood of Vox. It's a great one!

~~ Web Domain Mistress - Athena.

In honor of Vox's launch tomorrow, what's your favorite feature or aspect of Vox?

I love the privacy controls. I think that it would be much better as a private community, invite-only, but I guess good things can't always be just for me. I love that I can make blogs for just my family... like if it's a family problem that I only want family to give me input on. Or that if I only want friends to see something I might write about sex or my life that only friends should know because my family might not understand, then I can do that too. Then there is just writing for myself. Sometimes I write things I want no one to know, and I can do just that, with the draft option. Everything is just my style.

That and I love not having to figure out HTML and CSS to design the site... I mean, on Xanga, I want it to be personally mine, but here, there are so many awesome choices, I don't mind.