The Life And Times...
I'm sure this is a dilemma that a lot of bloggers face at one point or another in their lives. Do you blog significant life changes? Do you blog those life changes involving relationships? Do you blog those life changes when the possibility exists that those impacted by the life change will see what you wrote? How public do you want the information to be?
All good questions indeed. Not to be intentionally vague but a chapter in my life is coming to an end and a new one is beginning. Painful upheaval for all involved. The other day I decided to take a breather from online life for a bit while the dust settles. Now I think I'll just press on. Everyone has different ways of dealing with things and continuing posting random crap here will continue.
So then, onward and upward.
And so it begins...
It's definitely a conundrum. I try to keep mum about super personal stuff because I don't want to act out of anger/sadness but it's hard.
I hope you are ok.
Thanks. Oh, I'm ok. Life's an adventure right?
that's one advantage of LJ with its privacy settings. a few clicks and either just friends can see the post... or I can even ensure only I see the post.
Sorry to hear of troubles. :(
I judge on a case by case basis what I'll blog about and what I won't. It all depends on circumstances.
I hope all turns out for the best in your changes.
I used to blog just about everything that when on in my life. Except for my last name. I was pretty honest about my foibles.
Then I got married. Now my life includes someone else, and I have to respect his privacy. It's been hard because our first year of marriage has gone through some rocky times, and I wasn't able to really talk about them on my blog. Which, because it was all consuming to me at the time, left me with nothing to blog about.
Things are much better now. And I will always try to respect his privacy. My rule of thumb for myself is, if I don't want my mother, and the rest of my family, to know, don't write about it.
Oh, also, I'm a bit paranoid right now because I'm going through the immigration process. It's getting easier and easier to find my blog associated with my full name.
Yes and No.
I do blog about significant things, I used to blog about relationships (I do, but not as much as I used to...).. but for public blog posts, it's not too personal. I'm weird that way, but on blogs that have filters for certain people (aka friends only posts).. I do say a lot more of what's on my mind. I just don't want to throw that stuff out to the public.
But again, I'm just weird...
Please keep blogging, it gives me insight to an egg chasing limey in the US!
Its quality, don't stop fella, big up the Spurs, Cambridge are in the play-offs to make it back into the league if they get there i will be at Wem-ber-ley. Is Juande the man, possibly...
I don't really blog about life changing events. Mostly because the event involves other people and I try to respect the privacy of others.
Brian... yeah this would be one of those times in which privacy settings would be appropriate.
Kev... thank you sir. Yeah, I guess it does depend on the situation doesn't it.
Jodi... yeah it's quite the dilemma when you know that certain people will read your post. You're going through an immigration process right now? Do tell. I've had to go through that myself. You know, being the Englishman in America and all that ;-)
Amy... no you're not weird at all. Don't make me slap you ;-)
Jase... oh I'm blogging away. I mean how could I not provide insight into an egg chasing limey? A bloke at work said to me the other day "oh you limeys are all the same". I asked him what exactly he meant and he just laughed. So I'm still none the wiser ;-) Oh, and you did just say "big up the Spurs" in public ;-)
birdcolor... right, respecting the privacy of others was always my concern.
Those are hard decisions. I´ve always been a bit awkward about being private online and yet admiring those who are, or some who are really.
I started at LJ years and years ago but deleted my journal. The privacy settings are good but if you want privacy why host it elsewhere? I use Journler for anything important and lots of unimportant stuff :-)
Hope things work out for you!
Hmm, I must´ve been tired since I can´t write properly. What I tried to say was that I´m reluctant about being open about my personal stuff online and that I admire some people who are really open on their blogs.
It´s a fine line to be able to remain private and still have something interesting to say on a blog. I think you need some sort of personal twist to what you say unless you are a writer and just make stories up, perhaps.
Ok, I´ll stop. I still don´t make sense :-D
Göran... I also admire the people that use their blog as a kind of "dear diary" and pour their heart and soul into it. It's a kind of grey area though isn't it? That fine line between what to blog and what not to.
A lot of people do make their blogs an interesting read without divulging too much personal information though. Some people are just natural writers I think and can blog interesting things about patches of grass ;-)