I think that more people are going to be experiencing this....
A conflict between their public person and private and how that plays out on the internet. A friend recently felt the consequences of this conflict, and it's made me ask a lot of questions. I've always wanted my blog to be an extension of who I really am-- no border between the private and public, and even professionally I've always felt free to speak my mind. Lately, however, I've started writing several things, and then stopped because I'm not sure what some future prospective employer might think-- what if they aren't above judging me unfairly?
In the meantime, I've been publishing on a VERY anonymous public blog that to my knowledge, (thank you site meter) I'm the only one to ever have seen the page. I think because of some of the content, blogger has chosen not to list it.... so what's the point of that. And as for blogger not listing it, I just don't get it-- it really isn't much worse than the "monkey sex" thing on this blog-- the obscenity is purely philosophical, and yet it's not included in the blogger directory or the "next blog" list. Oddly, if I just wrote a pornographic sex blog it would have had 700 hits by now! Go figure.
what to do what to do.
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Blog identity crisis
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The fact is that, unless we're very careful to use pseudonyms and not get too specific about ourselves, writing in a blog is like speaking in front of an audience consisted of everyone you know.
It's interesting, because to a certain extent, we all have a set of different masks that we wear. We may act differently around friends vs family, or differently around one group of friends vs another, or differently at work vs at home, or differently when alone with our significant others...
So, when blogging, we're faced with two choices. We could filter what we say through all of those different masks, so our words are homogenized in a way that would be acceptable coming out of any of those different "versions" of ourselves. Or, we say whatever we want at the risk of breaking those masks, sometimes with unforseen concequences.
Or, I suppose option three is to hide our identity completely-- what would you say to people you know if you knew you'd remain annonymous? Somebody or -bodies have already answered that question on my blog.
Maybe I'm just geeking out, but I find this whole sociological side of blogging fascinating.
Why do we write blogs or anything for that reason?
I think the whole purpose of writing is the sharing of ourselves with others. We write our thoughts down hoping someone will read them. And to have left a piece of ourselves behind when we are gone. So to have an anonymous blog which no one can read is defeating the purpose of writing at all. I guess you can use it for memories sake and go back and see what you where thinking at that time...but I think that is very sad and lonely.......poor lonely bloggy.
That is strange that Blogger won't post it though.....you must be causing a controversy in the Blogosphere.
Its not that they wont publish it, it's that it's been up for half a year and not a single person other than myself has visited it. If I started a new blog today with erm, slightly different content, it would have a couple of hits within the week from people using the listing and the "next blog" button.... I've checked the blog preferences and it's all public and supposedly listed....
Now I will admit that the title is pretty saucy, to the point of absurdity.... You know, I was making fun of something by taking it to an extreme-- so the title is intentionally so vulgar that no one could take it seriously. Oh, and in the same spirit as the title I've implicated political figures in kinky sex acts-- a couple of funny pics of politicians "showing their O face," complete with caption....
But even if I do a search (with the blogger search) for the exact title of my blog, it doesn't come up in the search at all....
What am I to think? A glitch? Or am I being throttled down by that man?
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