I have a large number of friends who use LiveJournal for their blogging/journaling.  I think they actually provide a pretty cool service and I like a lot of their community building things.  At the same time, I find myself frustrated with parts of it.

The biggest thing I get frustrated with is comments.  Since many people on LJ are fairly anonymous, you can end up being on the friends list of people who you are at most only aquainted with.  Even though you read these people's posts every day, and they may feel comfortable with you reading them, they still aren't someone you know face to face.  So I find myself wondering just how acceptable it is to be responding to some people's posts.

The other thing I run into with comments is wondering how much I'd like to share with all the other people who can read comments on a post.  In many cases I'd prefer to just email a response if it is a subject that is fairly personal.  But sometimes it feels weird for me to be emailing things like that to a total stranger.

Anyone else here use LJ? What are your thoughts about it?