Sara wrote an insteresting article about having private parts in our personal website that I suggest you go read first. But the main idea of their post is about having a private area on your personal site. Even though this isn't something I've thought about before, I liked the idea. There are things that I could/would share with just a subset of people that I don't want to publish publically or see in my post timeline. Even less see bots crawling them. Things like specific responses to others, books and manga in my library (granted my manga collection is 'public' on my gemlog), or more complex and personal thoughts. A good example would be a response to Ben's post: 15 books that made an impact. While I'm not comfortable sharing these publically, I'd be happy to exchange with Ben about some of them and share my own list. I can do it via email, but if I want to exchange on the same topic with someone else, having a post hidden somewhere might be even better! For me, having a private area on this blog would mainly be for sharing content that