First, can we talk about what a weird word collide is? It just looks weird. Guess I don’t use it enough in my daily life.
Anyway, what I am really here to talk about is blogging. Blogging free and open with no concern about who might be reading.
Is it weird that I feel I could blog with no regard if I was completely anonymous? I am sure many people feel that way. How come it is easier to confess your secrets, fears, hopes and dreams when you don’t know who is listening, or reading as the case may be. Shouldn’t a person confess those things to the people closest to them? Why is it the people closest to you are the judgments you worry about most? Maybe it is just me.
I always knew when I started blogging I would keep some level of censorship to my writing. For my mom’s sake, and my job’s sake. For the most part I keep the language in check, the marriage details clean and the gossip to a minimum. But with all that, is this really a personal blog?
There are days when my mind is elsewhere and I just want to lay it all on the line. Spill my guts to anyone and everyone, just to get it off my chest. But then I think, do I really want everyone knowing that. Do I want my boss to find that? Or maybe one of B’s ex-girlfriends. No, not really. I don’t know who is reading here, but I do know if someone was looking for me (or really anyone in the Sagowitz family), they would find this.
Sometimes I think about closing up shop and going completely anonymous. But is that really even possible? I love talking about my life and my family so I think eventually I would be found again.
I also love knowing that family and friends are reading. I love that my biggest fan is one of my bestest friends. That is how it should be, right? I love that I have a niece I have never even met before reading my blog. (Hi Amber!) I would hate to lose that connection to family and friends, but it does make me think twice about my subject matter.
How do other bloggers do it? Are they just that open with everyone that they don’t care who reads what? Is everyone struggling with the same censorship? Or are the carefree bloggers the ones who are anonymous? Maybe it is a combination of all three. Blogging is an interesting and every changing medium. I love this place and identity I have made for myself online, but how far is too far.
Ditto. It’s a struggle, but you have to maintain the sanctity of some things. You never really know who’s reading.
All this being said, it’s still a personal blog for me, and it’s still the REAL me. Just airbrushed a little bit, if ya know what I mean.
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Agreed. My blog is the first thing you get on google when you google my name. So there’s no hiding it from anyone. I have a lot of family members who are regular readers, include both of our mothers. So I look at our blog as our way to let people know what is going on in our lives. But not a place to rant or complain or be racy. I’ll save those for my chats with my girlfriends
I guess I never thought of it when I first started the blog, I guess we weren’t really concerned about who was reading. Our names are all over our blog and its not a common last name, although I agree with Steph I use it mainly to just update our friends and family and hope that people get a good laugh. But because both my husband’s job and mine are very googable (if that is a word) we have to be careful, I don’t want someone looking for something related to our jobs and finding our blog. It’s a hard balance and the more I blog the more I think about it.