I have a filter, but it's only to weed the communities out so I don't have to wade through page after page of spam. My flist's not so big that it's unmanagable, and I hope to keep it that way.

I don't lock often, because I rarely talk about anything especially personal. When I do lock, it's usually because I've mentioned something that would give away my super-secret identity, and I don't like to have personal facts like my real name floating around in public view (although about half my flist knows who I am IRL). Like, when I linked to my mom's obituary I locked it because it included a lot of personal info. Mostly I just don't want people I know googling me and finding my LJ.

Have lots of fun in Austin!