When Someone you know finds your anonymous blog

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Permalink Reply by Toni Conrad on June 26, 2009 at 11:32am

My blog is very public. All my friends and family and everyone I never knew I know reads it. From coworkers to old schoolmates. Its kinda insane how many people are interested in my life. It started as a theraputic thing as I had a couple of really bad things happen to me last year (like my daughter died at 12 1/2 weeks and i got very sick) and my therapist suggested to me to write about it.
Since November, my bloglet has evolved into a Story of My Life and how I deal with all the shit that is thrown at me. I have to be very careful about what I talk about sometimes because if I talk about someone (like my crazy neighbors) I use abbreviations for what we call them or some things I can not even talk about. My sisters drive me crazy, but they read 3 times a day and I can NOT write about them negatively becasue then they cry to my mother and it is a bad situation.
I wish I were anonymous sometimes because I feel I could write about ANYTHING then, but someone would find it.

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Permalink Reply by SavvyD on June 27, 2009 at 4:23am

I would suggest you begin a secret blog and not tell people the name. Use a code name and post no pictures. That's the way I do it. It's just that I gave too many clues to someone and my blog is pinged all over the place.

Good luck, hon!!

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Permalink Reply by SavvyD on June 27, 2009 at 4:25am

My sympathies for your loss. That sounds really rough.

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Permalink Reply by Harper and Beatrix on June 28, 2009 at 12:25pm

i am a very good anonymous blogger-- even the email address we use has no information about our real selves. two people knew, and one of them was harper. but then i met a boy blogger. and he told people about my blog before either of us knew that this relationship was going to go anywhere (and before i could swear him to secrecy).

so saturday night, i met one of his friends, who turned to me and said, "i love your blog."

i don't know what to do or how to feel about this. at least she likes it?

~b

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Permalink Reply by Erin on June 28, 2009 at 1:02pm

Ouch! That's never a good thing to hear.

I'm a semi-anonymous blogger. I don't really want my co-workers finding my blog, despite the fact that I don't really write about work much. (OK, I write things that happen to me at work, but they generally involve people on assignment, not co-workers.) I wonder if any of them have found it. I wonder what would happen if they did.

A few of my friends know, and that's fine by me. I just really don't want my family to find it. That would be awkward.

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Permalink Reply by Erin on June 28, 2009 at 1:12pm

I'm the same way. Since I'm a teacher, I don't want my work or the families I work for finding my blog...even though I rarely write about work stuff.

I do have some friends who read my blog, but I don't really want my family reading it. Is that strange? I mean, I doubt there's anything on there that they don't know about me, but I still would feel so odd having my family read it.

I do check, though, to make sure that no one can find my blog by googling my real name. Like I said, I just don't want my students' families reading my blog!

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Permalink Reply by Erin on June 28, 2009 at 1:15pm

I'm glad that I am not the only one who is like that.

I feel that if I knew my family was reading my blog, I wouldn't feel like I could be as open. For the record, my dad's side of the family has a family blog and everything. They're all about the Internet. And I know if they knew about mine, they would be all over it, leaving comments and everything. Which is OK, minus the fact that I want them to know everything that I write and think about...

I should google my name to make sure my blog doesn't come up. Hmm. Good idea.

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Permalink Reply by Erin on June 28, 2009 at 1:25pm

My mom would definitely read my blog. I've never said anything bad about her, but I've bad mouthed my step-dad a few times, and I know that would hurt her feelings. I don't know if my dad would read, but I worry that if he did, he would read my posts about his cancer and it would make him sad. So, I'd rather they didn't read.

I probably google myself once a month, just to be sure.

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Permalink Reply by Erin on June 28, 2009 at 3:12pm

Good idea.

I'm the same as you: I think I would be OK with my mom reading my blog. (She has oftentimes asked me to help her set up a "blogspot" for school.) But anyone else? Not so much. And my mom's feelings would probably get hurt by some of the things I have written. Not about her, but other people she knows.

C'est la vie.

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Permalink Reply by SavvyD on June 29, 2009 at 4:31am

I have a teacher blog also. I use a different name and I don't even post a picture. Erin, if that's your real name, you have your picture here and it would be easy to follow. Anon in one place means you have to be anon in another. Just my 2 cents. :)

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Permalink Reply by Mallorie Arias on July 2, 2009 at 3:51am

I Have a Blog that all my friends know about and then one I have under another name and email that no one knows about. :D I dont even use their real names

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Permalink Reply by SavvyD on July 2, 2009 at 5:24am

Smart girl!

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