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I recently had a discussion with a friend who was starting a blog about Real Life Friends and how they don't read my blog. I told her that while many of my friends know about my blog, they admittedly don't read it. They themselves are not bloggers and they just don't quite get the whole concept of blogging or why I would consider people I have never meet to be my "friends."
Does it hurt my feelings? Sometimes.
Do I understand? Not always.
Is this just me? How do you handle it when your RLF's don't "get" your blogging?
Does it hurt my feelings? Sometimes.
Do I understand? Not always.
Is this just me? How do you handle it when your RLF's don't "get" your blogging?
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Tipp on -
I do too, and that is the one thing my non-blogging friends and family don't undertand the most.
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Permalink Reply by nicopolitan on -
My real life friends tend not to give a crap unless they are bloggers themselves. I don't really take it personally though, because that seems to me to just be a taste disparity.
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Permalink Reply by Princess Pointful on -
No one is my real life, outside of my boyfriend (who used to be an avid blogger himself), knows that I blog. This is in part because I like the freedom, but also because I don't really think others would get it-- like the time a close friend of mine ranted about how blogging was inherently super self-centered.
I'm actually surprised that no one in my RL social circle blogs... at least that I know of.
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Permalink Reply by Mallory on -
I haven't told any of my friends which is weird because I'm so blunt and uninhibited. I think they'd view me differently maybe...Quite honestly they probably wouldnt be that interested anyways
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Permalink Reply by WishMeWell on -
i list the url in my facebook profile and i notice a few clicks a day from there.
i generally don't blog about whats going on in my real life, so it wouldn't bother me for real life friends to read it. however, knowing that certain ones do limits the personal things i can post, which i sometimes want to post. its probably for the best tho
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Permalink Reply by The Suicidal Goldfish on -
Before blogging became de rigure, I was part of a large messageboard community. Spnt years chatting to various people I knew only by their monikers and then it moved onto MSN and finally meeting a few of them.
Met my ex-girlfriend through it, we were together for 4 years...*sigh*
Blogging is great, it's a kind of low risk forum to meet new people.
And I kind of like my RLFs not reading my blog, fact is, thy could stumble on it and they'd never guess it was me. Only one person I know reads my scribble and I read hers.
FAAAAAAAAR more exciting this way :)
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Permalink Reply by Tara on -
Only a couple of my RLF know that I blog, but only one reads - The Boy and only very occasionally. I haven't told a lot of friends about the blog because the ones who know aren't usually understanding. I get that they don't like it and even when I tell people about the blog, I don't give them the address because I don't know who will be judgmental or not. Its really pretty annoying sometimes, but I'm used to it so now I just know not to tell anyone else about it.
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Permalink Reply by Tipp on
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I am picky about who I give my address out to too, you want some form of an expressive outlet without having everyone you know read it!
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Permalink Reply by Jess on -
Only a handful of "real life" friends know I blog - I don't really want everyone in my life to know, even though I tend to stay away from blogging too much about my personal life. I have about 3 friends who blog, and they don't even keep up that often, so I'm not insulted if people I know IRL don't read it.
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Permalink Reply by Aleksie on -
Mine is niche, so a lot of them don't know about it. I don't always like them reading, honestly. I geuss I'm weird that way.
When I kept a personal blog to simply keep in touch, it didn't bother me much then, either. Some people are not blogging types.
What kind of baffled me is blogging type friends who would get upset that I wouldn't comment on every post they make. I sometimes didn't have anything to say.
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