Suposedly we write these blogs anonymously. However, some of us are better than others to omit identifying information from our blogs. I am horrible at it.
My life has always been an open book, and I have rarely felt ashamed of my actions enough to hide anything.
So when writing the blogs, I give away a good amount of detail. And if you read my blog installments- even more detail comes to light.
I'm not so worried about a majority of bloggers who are 'strangers' but I wonder if any of you are people I personally know?
I doubt most of my friends or family would participate in this website, but I can see a few people I know interested in this topic. And it makes me paranoid that they will tell the rest of my friends and family and I wll be crucified for either 'airing my laundry publicly' or 'dragging their identities into my stories.'
Some things I write are selfish. Some things I write dont paint other people in the best light, and alot of things I write are a fraction of the picture as it pertains to that subject, but it's from my viewpoint, and sometimes I dont feel like being PC.
I would hate to lose this 'anonymous' space where I can chronicle the unedited version of my life.
Sometimes I participate in life and put on different 'identities' where I talk about one thing with one person, another person views me differently, and a whole other group of people know me as a totally different person than I normally am. I am many different things to many people and I find myself editing, omiting stories to 'click' with a particular person, and I worry that the things I write here, if discovered by someone I personally know, might offend them. (Wow. That was a horrible run-on sentence. Sorry about that.)
But maybe I put to much ego in my own writings and what I say would hardly impact a friend or families perspective.
I know people take themselves much more seriously than others take them.
Has anyone here been 'found out' by close friends, family or co-workers? Do you guys write for a specific audience, knowing, guessing, assuming or worrying that someone you personally know will be reading it and linking it you?
And do any of you reading this have a pretty good guess of who 'I' am? (maybe that sounds egotistical right there, to assume that my circle of friends is so large and I am at the fore of their minds so they immediately think of 'me' when reading my stories.)
LOL. maybe today's blog wasnt about money specifically. It was more about peace of mind.
Does anybody know me?
June 15th, 2008 at 05:38 pm
June 15th, 2008 at 08:51 pm 1213563079
June 16th, 2008 at 12:19 am 1213575549
June 16th, 2008 at 12:44 am 1213577052
1. I've put on one very big piece of misinformation in my blog to throw off many of my friends and acquaintances.
2. Also, once your blog gets to be a certain size, or you post more than once/day, or you write long, you can bury big news. I find that most people have short attention spans - they read the top post, and often not the one below it. Of course if you have enemies, those people might be a bit more patient and read everything.
3. I have taken items off after a few days, and I have edited entries after a few days. Others have even deleted entries too.
I do agree with you - the more of your f2f friends know - the less effective your blog. It seems to work best if you can be totally honest in your writing, even if its bad or upsetting.
June 16th, 2008 at 04:07 pm 1213632456
That said, I tend to be a bit more frank than most people I have met so no one I care about would be upset. After all, they put up with me in real life.
June 16th, 2008 at 04:11 pm 1213632690
June 16th, 2008 at 04:58 pm 1213635499
I try not to bitch about people on my blog, because if friends of mine really seem interested in reading about my budgeting, I will tell them how to find my blog. So far only one friend (plus members of my household) has done so, but I've sent a couple friends links to articles on here, and they know I blog about finances, and my user name's not SO different from the one my friends are familiar with, so they could put 2+2 together if they really tried.
I would be a little flustered if friends who didn't know before found out how much debt I have, but at least then they'd understand why I'm always trying to pinch pennies nowadays.
June 16th, 2008 at 05:17 pm 1213636625
one, I linked this blog up to my common, everyday email and I know everytime I post on peoples blogs their email gets a notification that my email address has posted a blog comment. I gotta find a way to switch email addresses.
And its my blog name. Gamecock- thats my undergrad school and I use this name on everything.
Friends could easily link gamecock, to baseball boy, to getting married in Nov in Savannah, to living in MN right now...
I will take Baselle's advice and place a misleading info piece in somewhere. I just gotta think of something.
Thanks for the help. I knew I was easily identifyable, glad some others wonder the same thing.