Why do you blog?

Published on March 2, 2007 By Sugar High Elf In Blogging

I'm taking a class on privacy right now, and we're discussing the fact that people seem very willing to "bare all", as it were, online. We tell stories about ourselves to perfect strangers that we might not tell people in our daily lives. People, especially teenagers, seem willing to tell everything and, at times, show everything.

So, why do you blog? Do you feel the need to create an "online" identity? Do you enjoy sharing your life and feel safe doing so where people do not know you? How often do you share personal information, private details, even embarrasing incidents that you would cringe to tell to people you work with?

I don't know if anyone on JU also participates in MySpace or Facebook... but if you do, why? Are you cautious about what pictures you post? Are you careful of what you write on other people's walls?

Are you afraid that what you write could one day come back to bite you? Get you fired? Do you sometimes write something, then wish you could go back and erase it all?

Are you blogging your life so you won't forget the details?

Thanks for your help, JU. Your input is most valued.

Comments (Page 2)

Texas Wahine

on Mar 05, 2007

I don't blog much any more, but it's about social interaction as much anything else for me. I now have a mommy forum I spend a lot of time at, which is a good fit since I am so freaking boring no one else would want to listen to me, .

I like the interesting mix of people here, and it is nice to write something and have others respond to it.

I am pretty open online but I don't share everything. Not because I'm afraid or anything, just because there are things I don't want to "talk" about.

I used to have a MySpace page; a friend convinced me to start one. Adrian asked me to take it down because "that's where all the horny infantry guys go to find chicks". I never used it "meet" anyone I didn't already know, though. I did get rid of it.

I know that at the mommy website where I hang out a lot of women got freaked out when they realized that their message posts and photos were accessible via google. They honestly thought that all this personal info they were posting on the internet was private.

Here's a funny one, though. Knowing that both JU and *mommy website* are completely public and can be googled, and that my screen name at *mommy website* is not even remotely cryptic, I openly post my weight (and things like thoughts on pregnant sex) but would never even consider doing that on JU.

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