I like words. The definition of blog according to my new best friend, dictionary.com, is an online diary. Personally, I don't want my diary to be online. It's amazing how when we are little we gaurd our mini diaries as if our life depended on it, with mini locks and mini brass keys. We are humiliated if say our little brothers steals the book, opens it up, and -heaven forbid-finds out we have a crush on Tommy Thompson down the street. Yet, when we are old enough to navigate the internet, which these days seems to happen around the age of three, suddenly no secret is left untold. Most blogs that I have read stick to fairly normal subjects: family, politics, food, etc., but I have definately read a few shocking blogs in my day. Which brings me to my question: To Blog or Not to Blog?
Dictionary.com also mentions that blogs are meant to reflect the personality of the author. Do I really want some unknown online reader to know all about my personality. I realize that there are certain security measures that technically make this blog unavailable to people who haven't been "invited", but computers aren't perfect, and some weirdy could probably find a way to read this if he/she really wanted to.
Writing is also very egocentric in nature; at least, it feels that way to me. A blog is just an excuse to babble on and on to a invisible, yet attentive audience. Surely everyone is as interested in your life as you are.
The blog I have just written is an experiment. I'm testing the cyberwaters to see where my true feelings lie concerning the blogging matter. I'm sure somewhere I can set up an online poll or ask my Facebook friends about this important issue, but maybe its better to stick my conflicted feelings about technology into my real journal, guarded under lock and key.
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6 comments:
So how's Tommy Thompson doing?
Better than any real guy I've dated in the last little while.
Kristin, I love your thoughts and your writing. Writing and words are definitely one of your talents. I would love to read more of your writing and thoughts, but I see your points about privacy and the whole point of blogging. I suppose if you choose to blog you need to decide what the point of your blog is. I promised my family when I started a blog that it is our "happy place" just a place to post pictures of what we've done, and where we've been, not a place of angst and deep thinking, although angst and deep thinking is way more fun to read.
That was really fun to read. Definitely BLOG!
Kristin,
I know you wrote this a while ago, but as everybody knows, I 'm always behind the times.
Anyways, I enjoyed your writing. You have a talent for it.
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