Comments on: On Anonymous Blogging

By: J

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:03:01 +0000

I used to not care about it but for the past year or two, I’ve kept the new address of my blog to myself.

By: Shiying!

Shiying! — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:24:48 +0000

(I’m new to your blog :D )
I’m highly uncomfortable at the thought of certain friends reading my blog, and just fine with other ones. There’s not much of a criteria that I sort them through, it’s completely random. I do link my blog from forums and such, and also facebook, so anyone could read it if they really wanted to.
My mother used to read my blog, but I asked her to stop once she brought up something I had written. Since then, I haven’t been able to get past my self censorship knowing that my mother could be/is reading it.

By: Jess

Jess — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:59:49 +0000

I don’t go out of my way to tell people that I have a blog. If it comes up in conversation somehow, I mention it. I have regretted it afterwards. I do link to my blog from my Facebook “Info” tab, but don’t mention it otherwise on there. Very few people, if anyone at all, bother to click over from there regularly. (Two people have read it at least once, and commented, but I don’t think they came back.)

Anyway, it doesn’t really bother me if real-life acquaintances read my blog. It’s not very often that I write about my life, and when I do, I am usually careful not to be mean about people (and I very rarely attach names). I used to write very differently, so I am familiar with the fear that someone would track down mean entries and read what I don’t want them to know I said publicly. But that was a long time ago, and now I know not to write such entries in the first place. Hence, no fear.

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:17:52 +0000

Years ago, I used to keep my online/offline life separate because back then, blogging amongst my high school acquaintances was -not- in — it was all the rage on the Internet, but you know how Real Life people come across these things eons later and think it’s the next best thing after sliced bread? Yea. But then eventually, people learnt about it, and I was fine until too many people in RL I saw everyday started reading it — like you said, there wasn’t the mutual blogging thing going on. So I moved, but then I find with university, I don’t *see* most of the people who read my blog often enough to make it awkward. And those I do see, are my best friends, so it’s okay.

Yet, I think it’s important to note that I don’t tell people about my blog, either in Real Life, or advertised on Facebook. You actually have to actively ‘stalk’ me, to find out.