The Bloggers With The Most To Say
Anonymous Blogging?
Quick question, more of a poll.
Do your friends and family read your blog? Or have you kept it to yourself and internet readers?
I have never invited people I know IRL because I do not want to have to apologize for hurt feelings, but am curious as to how others deal with it.
Do your friends and family read your blog? Or have you kept it to yourself and internet readers?
I have never invited people I know IRL because I do not want to have to apologize for hurt feelings, but am curious as to how others deal with it.
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Permalink Reply by The Pumpernickel on -
I definitely have a love/hate relationship with blogging under my real name. I started out anonymous, but it started being too difficult to conceal my identity. I don't post anything really damning, but I still feel weird when certain people read my blog. Like my bosses..
But I put it out there, so I can't legitimately be peeved that people read it. Such is the plight of the non-anonymous blogger.
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Permalink Reply by SassyGirl on -
I have tried to share my blog with RL friends several times, but it always ends badly. I have had to move my blog three or four times, and by now, I know better than to let anyone in RL read it.
I think it has a lot to do with how personal the contents are. I mean, some blogs are just daily ramblings and not very incriminating. But I talk about my job (slacking off), my friends (not necessarily in a bad way, but I don't know if they'd be comfortable knowing I've shared the things they've told me with the anonymous WWW), and my love life on my blog, so I go to painstaking lengths to keep my blog anonymous.
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Permalink Reply by Als on -
My friends and family read my blog at times.
sometimes i wish i was anonymous because i have to sensor my thoughts at times.
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Permalink Reply by chele on -
I am not an anonymous blogger, for many reasons, but I have a link to my blog on my facebook page if my friends care to read. They do know I blog about them and I have told them to tell me if they ever dislike anything I have written about them.
Though I do now let my family know.
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Permalink Reply by Erica on -
I have a few friends that know about my blog- I haven't yet gotten to the point where I would need to screen who is viewing it yet, though.
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Permalink Reply by Esther on -
No, they don't. I'm thinking of removing my blog link from my facebook page - just because my blog is getting really personal, and also it's moving more towards being a very PF blog and I kind of want to keep that separate from the rest of my life (my twitter has gone that way already).
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Permalink Reply by Selectively Bitchy on -
I've invited a few... and now my boyfriend reads it every day, at least twice a day.
Otherwise, no way, I would never blog Selectively Bitchy as myself...always anonymous. Hence, I use a cartoony pic even though I'm dying to use my own LOL.
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Permalink Reply by trulymadlyme on -
My blog is a hybrid honestly. I don't hide the fact that I blog, but aside from a few friends who were regular readers from the jump, I don't mention it. Mainly, it's never comes up.
I do write my blog as though any entry could be printed out, put on a big screen and discussed by my boss or potential employers. It's not like I'm hiding anything but I do try to keep it well written and honest.
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Permalink Reply by Esley S on -
Yes, my family and friends read my blog. My blog is not personal in the regard of: here is what I did today, these are my life goals, I'm totally in love with so-and-so, etc... It's more topical about random shit. I don't want the whole internet PLUS my friends and family knowing every detail of my life. That's what human interaction is for, at least IMHO...
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Permalink Reply by Kay on -
Haven't invited anyone from the real life, but my boyfriend knows about it, but doesn't read it. So far it's a good thing although I'm really thinking maybe I should have kept it to myself just in case he ever feels like reading it, which is limiting my blogging.
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Permalink Reply by Proud Maisie on -
I am a secret blogger. At first, it started out as part of "the game" of a BDSM relationship I was having. I would be instructed to write fantasies, ideas, or sometimes specifics. It was only for him, and I quite liked that. Now, just over a year (I think) later, I have restarted, mainly because I needed to give vent to the weird, wonderful, and sometimes fucked up situations I place myself in. I have told one friend who moves in such different circles it does not matter, and she is trustworthy. An ex of mine knows because I accidently let slip I had a secret blog, and him being a super geek, he managed to find it. Lord knows how.
He wished he hadn't because it details my current fraternisations in a very graphic way, which is one of the reasons that it should stay secret. Upon reading it, you'll see there are lots of reasons for it to stay secret... Gah.
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Permalink Reply by Fun and Fearless in Beantown on -
I started out with an anonymous blog but a few of my friends who also blogged discovered it through their site tracking devices (when I'd look at their blogs) and soon word spread. I have always been up front that I will blog about my everyday life but will never use my blog as a passive-aggressive outlet and will always protect names by using just initials. So far, everyone has been okay with it...
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