It seems that everyone has a blog now- for instance, I just found out that Tara, Chris and Dan all have blogs. And my other blog was the cause of a recent....mishap.
What sort of information should we put in these blogs? How should we limit ourselves? SHOULD we limit ourselves? I would show this blog to people as an organization of my thoughts on a particular theme, but my other blog is a cathartic place for me to dump my emotional baggage of the current moment. I'll probably continue to keep them seperate, because this one may come in handy for more professional purposes later on.
The other thing that bothers me is people using them for indirect communication. I admit to being guilty of this one, and it just seems inherantly unfair and even cowardly to 'indirectly' blab on about someone on your blog, without actually telling them to their face. That's like saying you can't be bothered even emailing them about it, so here's a criticism about them, without using their name. If you actually want other people to read it, that's another story, but I think blogs can sometimes be creepily deceptive in the way that we forget that actual PEOPLE are reading them, and hence forget the sort of impact those words could have.
Again, something I'm guilty of, and I'm not proud of it, so I'm going to try and stop. I've learned my lesson.
2 comments:
Hey, I think your other blog was alright. I was aware of some of the things in it. But I was also aware of the context in which they were written. If you think that what they have done in response to that one post in your blog was the typical reaction, you're dead wrong. In my humble opinion, they over-reacted and not just a little. The reaction you got would have been excessive if you had said that comment contemptously to their faces. I cannot emphasize this enough. They are the problem in this issue. Not you, or your blog.
It's something I've been just as guilty of as you. I have a habit of making vague references to people and not naming names. I think it's because I tend to think of my blog as a diary of sorts, a place to to vent what I'm feeling, just like you do. Though, I believe that the situation would have still happened had it been said in an e-mail or face to face. Certain people weren't going to take any critism well, no matter how it was done. I don't think you did anything wrong, per say. It's what you think and how you feel, and I think it would be wrong for you to start holding back on that. But that's just me.
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