Imagined Audience

Facebook overseers are studying what people are writing but not posting and think that when people don't send what they write, it's because they fear disapproval by the "imagined audience."  I can't imagine an audience.  When I write, I think that maybe Linda, my friend who suggested it in July 2011, will read it from time to time, and that's it.  But last night at a Christmas party, a colleague I like a lot (Hey, now you can be my imagine audience, L. !) told me she'd found it.  I asked her how, and she said something about looking up something to see how people felt about City College and then finding someone talking about ESL 140 or ESL 142 and noticed my name in tiny print somewhere at the bottom.  Hmm.  So now there are two L's who've seen it at least once, and I occasionally read what I write myself--and I guess I  mean that I myself sometimes read what I write and that I occasionally read what I write myself.  I feel that I'm writing to myself but with caution if not with proof-reading.