For those of you who have online journals

I'm actually very particular when it comes to adding people to my journal, so it's pretty safe to say that I trust most of the people who are on my friends list. However, I do use a filter sometimes when it comes to more personal things that I don't really feel comfortable about sharing with people. Because like you said, there are some people I'm just not that close enough wiht as well. I don't think it's unfair to use filters though, because it's totally up to you if you want to share certain things with other people or not. Just because you're friends with someone, it doesn't mean that you have to share everything with them the way that you would with your best friend or close friends. I say, whatever makes you feel comfortable. :)

I have a number of filters, but I rarely use them because my journal is friends-locked by default. A lot of my filters only have one person on them, in case I want to leave a message for someone, or have them look over something I've written to give it a SPaG beta/proof-read/editing. I definitely don't 100% trust everyone on my flist, which is why I put highly personal stuff in another journal entirely. 'sioniann' is used primarily for online socializing and fandom activities, whereas my other journal only has about 15 people friended, all of whom I'm much closer with and trust with rl details and things. I guess that's a filter, of a sort, but I feel like friending people back and then filtering them out of the bulk of what I'm writing feels a little misleading. If I don't want someone reading my posts, I generally will just defriend them altogether. There has only been one occasion when I've used a filter to *read* my friends-list, though, and that was when I was traveling and had limited time to get online. (With the new thumbtack feature, it's possible to keep up with people who's journals you're interested in, but who you aren't comfortable letting into your locked posts. I haven't made much use of that yet, but it's nice to know that's always an option, too.)

I don't have a filter or anything, but only certain friends have links to certain blogs. My online friends have a link to one blog, my real friends have a link to another. I keep a blog tracking my progress as I lose weight and they all have the link to that. It is nice to get positive feedback as I am eating healthy and such.

I use a couple of different filters. One is for people who only read my journal because we have mutual interests in some tv shows and hobbies, they don't see any of the serious stuff related to my family, and another that filters our a couple of friends who are still friends with my ex, so they don't see it when I complain about the ex, lol.

I trust most of them, but there are some things that I'm more comfortable sharing with others than I do with my friends on LJ. That said, my LJ is actually a role-playing journal, but since I have a lot of RL friends who are on LJ, I set up a filter to post, sometimes it will be things of interest to my RP friends, at other times to my RL friends. It may feel unfair to yourself to filter them out, but remember, you do have a right to privacy, and you should not be afraid of not telling people everything. If you're not comfortable telling your friend something, then don't. It is, after all, your life. I hope this helps.

I do have a few I trust.

I actually usually don't use filters. I think I have one that I have used in the past for very delicate subjects that I really needed to post about, but aside from that I just let everyone on my friends list (I have a livejournal) read my posts. This does mean that I sometimes can't be fully open in my entries, but so be it. I don't trust many, perhaps just two or three.

I have an lj account for rl friends and a separate lj for fandom friends, and both have filters. There are just some things I post that I'm not entirely comfortable having my entire flist read. Also, there are some people on my flist that I hesitate to de-friend for all the drama it would ensue.

Yes, I have a LiveJournal and I have filters set up there. Sometimes I'll post things that I just don't want people I know in real life to read, or sometimes I just trust the people I've known on there longer. Also, if there's a potential to offend someone with something I'm saying, I'll obviously filter them out. I think the filters are very handy! I'm sure other people filter me out of entries too, and that's fine. If I do it, I should also expect to be filtered...

I used to have a filter in place on my livejournal, but I had to delete that account due to harrassment issues. On my new livejournal account, I don't have any filters, but it is friends only. That's mostly because I don't want to go through that kind of experience again.