When thinking of where I can write and share my thoughts many different locations and/or platforms come to mind. The first thing that comes to mind is my journal. For as long as I could remember, I found comfort in writing down my feelings and experiences that I do not feel comfortable sharing with anyone in my journal. Over the years, I have found myself filling up a great number of journals this way. Honestly, I think writing feelings and experiences in journals that you do not know how to express is an extremely healthy way to express yourself. Many may think having a journal is just a fancier word for saying you have a diary, which it may be, but it is a very effective way of sharing your private life. Now, when I think about how private these journals are, I find them to be extremely private since I wouldn’t normally share the things written in them with anyone else. These journals are made for my eyes only, and I rarely ever go back to read them unless I wanna see how much I’ve grown over the years and reminisce about all the old memories I wrote down. The privacy level I would put to this specific location would be the highest since I am the only intended audience to view it. In contrast, Social Media platforms, such as Instagram and Twitter were other locations that came to mind when thinking about where I would write. When it comes to Instagram, I wouldn’t say that the platform for me personally is entirely public, since account settings such as privacy allow me to choose who can or cannot view and follow my accounts. Through these settings, I am able to choose and limit my audience that way, for the most part, I know who is viewing my posts. Now, I may know who follows my account and has access to my posts, but, I do not know who my followers are showing my posts to and sharing their accounts with giving my account a little bit more of a public view than I would like. When moving to a private to a public location many implications come to place. When thought about, when you write something private for an audience you personally intend for, the writing is somewhat “raw”. What I mean by “raw” is that you do not necessarily filter what you are writing and do not think of all the different aspects of your writing that may or may not offense other people. When writing something for a private location you only appeal to a very selective group of people. When writing for a public audience you must appeal to people of all different kinds and make your writing much more broad-minded. So when switching private writing to a public location the intended audience changes, meaning the author is unaware of the different interpretations of their writing leading to potentially offensive or boring content.