I found this taped over my desk at work today.
This is my 1500th post.
I have a couple of blog related questions. Is your blog a secret blog? I've recently had a couple of blog friends be blog outted and I know others DREADING the day that happens. It's more rare in photoblogs, but still...do ya? Is it a secret from anyone? Are *YOU* the secret?
Like my dear friend, Blog Ho. He would hate it if anyone found out that he was Warren Buffet so you didn't hear it from me.
What privacy issues have you and why? What impact would being outted have on you? You can email me if it's too dicey. Or leave an anonymous comment if yer scared!
Bad bad bad. It would just be bad.
ReplyDeleteI will never be a member of Blogger Anonymous... When I began my blog, I sent a message to every one on my e-mail list and told every body I knew, even those who did'nt know a damn thing about internet. So. Everybody knoooows. EVEN FOR THOSE SAD CAT'S STORIES in my other blog... :oD
ReplyDeletePS happy 1500th.
I started with a text blog and that wasn't a secret. I told all my friends and family. Then I moved to my photoblog which is also not a secret. I told all my friends and family.
ReplyDeleteThe addresses between the two sites are almost identical and someone who I accidentally gave my photoblog address to found my text blog. Not that I write anything controversial, but I wanted a separation.
So I have started a new text blog and my internet friends know about the move, but real life people don't. And I like it that way.
We aren't talking about ME here! Heh heh. Ok, actually my blog is also a secret blog. Partially. Or was. And because of the comments and content of other blogs that I've linked to. It was just easier to say nothing of it and when it's a nice little photoblog with 40 or 50 pictures on it..that's fine.
ReplyDeleteBut when it reaches the Obsessive Compulsive types numbers of 1500 posts in a 9 months, you've got an elephant in the room that you're not talking about.
I just didn't want to explain the whole photoblogging thing (Why would you put photos online for strangers to look at?) and then try to explain comments. (Who is that 'anonymous' person?)
Anyway, I was recently Googled for fun and my blog found. When asked about it, I just said I had it and that information was greeted with a big yawn. So I asked if we should look at it prompting the response: "Do we HAVE to??"
That put the humble in your humble photographic servant.
But I still edit comments and photos for content because I do have a very general collection of Gentle Viewers. I work in the public schools and have my name on it. It's PG-13, I think. I'd LIKE to have an R, But then I wouldn't be able to force it on people like I do now. Outside of my landlady, my SIL, and my neices and nephews, I know very few people in person who look at it without me standing over their shoulder. Heh heh
But I could never keep this blog like a diary. *I* don't even want to read what I'd put in it. Once I kept a journal. Then after a couple of years of entries I went back to the beginning to read it. Man, that was cringe time. Time moves on and memory is selective for a REASON. I dumped the whole thing down a garbage chute.
But you secret bloggers with your secret identities and your hundreds of Gentle Viewers I salute thee.
I have a "secret" blog, which has since been discovered by the very people I was hiding it from. (No, not my photoblog.) It was never terribly controversial, but now it's even less so. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat's sort of funny about it is that I originally started it thinking that friends and family would read it. I discovered that as much as friends and family want to know what's going on in your life via personal e-mail, they cannot be bothered with having to check a designated webpage for that information. I don't quite understand it, but they somehow think it's weird that it's posted - oooh publicly - online. I don't know if that's why they don't check it, but they seem to think it isn't relevant to them. In the end, I've decided this is a good thing because now I'm no longer writing it with them in mind.
If I had a blog and no one visited it, would it be considered a secret blog?
ReplyDeleteI find that no one in the real world cares. You have to be a blogger to appreciate another blog, secret or not.
Friends, family, and ex-girlfriends alike read my blog!
ReplyDeleteNo problem!
The blog that is linked here isn't a secret. It's actually a daily read for some of my family (parents excluded, of course) and friends. But yes, I do have a secret blog I prefer to keep...a secret. It's solely for therapeutic purposes and spares me from spending $200/hour on an actual shrink. ;)
ReplyDeleteAs for my secret blog, I have no worries about it being found out that it's mine. Not only have I fixed it that it doesn't link to my profile but its content is very vague as well. Very vague and very random. And when I go back and read what I've written, I think "Damn. I really should just go ahead and spend that $200 on a shrink."
being outted sucks. thank baby jesus it wasn't a secret from my husband.
ReplyDeletewhy, oh why... did i have to write about the orgy with the midgets.
i should have taken that one to the grave.
recriminations, accusations, lies, more lies, throwing things, past sexual experiences, packed bags, unpacked bags.....
ReplyDeleteI don't know what would happen if the husband found out.
I love my secrets.
I have few boundaries to begin with, so, not a secret blog. I have my real name up there now, if not originally. Came out with my real name writing my author bio, then made an incendiary comment on a right-wing blog. In a moment of terror scrubbed my name from my blog. But nothing came of it, so the name is back.
ReplyDeleteGuess I'm not as controversial as I thought :)
That said, I try to lean more toward the observational in my posts than the personal.
My blog is not anonymous although I've been careful not to disclose my exact location when I travel or work on photo projects (someone I knew tracked me down once in a city seven hundred miles from home and they came needing a ride). I've also tried to leave out my personal life, especially the day-to-day stuff, but that doesn't stop people from thinking they know you.
ReplyDeleteI find I do have secret readers. People who know me, who read the blog but never mention it or comment unless we're face to face. Occasionally there's a camera between us. Some are high-powered public official/professional types and I admit it sometimes wigs me out to think about them reading some of the crap I've written.