…this is where it gets wierd…
Maintaining a blog is wierd. Maintaining a blog where you say a lot is wierd. Maintaning a blog where you spill quite a bit, if not all, of your life is very wierd.
You never know who might “stumble” onto your blog. Or who actually reads it regularly. You never know who tells what to whom and how that might come back to you. Worse, you never quite know what impressions people will form from what they read on your blog.
While it’s alright to talk about it with close friends, you’re never quite prepared for those moments when a stranger, or someone you don’t know too well, mentions your blog in a conversation. You’ll always be a little startled, and not always pleasantly. What have they read? What did I write recently? What do they think they know about me?
There are days you get offended when people who know you have a blog, don’t read it and proceed to ask you how you are after you’ve just spilled your entire guts over the world wide web. Then, there are quiet, wierd moments when friends thread lightly and say very little because they have read your blog and seen the demons inside. And then there are days when no one says much because it’s all been said, and read, in your blog.
You never quite know what happens after you blog. And it can be wierd.
Posted on January 22nd, 2004 by jl
Filed under: About this blog
you are right, jikon. it is weird. on one hand, i want to let everybody knows about my blog, but sometimes on the other hand, i don’t want to let everybody knows.
i want to let all my friends know because in a way i want to show off my blog! but sometimes i’m afraid of revealing too much of me in my blog, which i don’t want my friends to know. not only that (because i rarely reveal about myself… personal i mean) but what i mean is how i feel over a certain issues/news, sometimes i don’t like my friends to know that.
blogging really put us in a weird situation.
and that is why i blog about food.
but wena, you have another blog… a personal blog… don’t you?
hahaha - maybe that’s why some of us blog about shopping? Or politics? Oh wait… even talking about politics say a lot about your beliefs… not necessarily good…
r u gay?
what’s weirder is the way you spell “weird” … *grin*
Some blog service sites like livejournal.com allow you to custom-set who can access your blogs, eg “Public”, “Friends only”, “Private” or even to just one special person only.
Only thing is you have to set login accounts, and the real problem, IMHO, is how many who will bother to go to the hassle of logining in to view your blogs ;p
I think the worst thing about having a blog is when strangers think they know everything about you, because they think all bloggers pour everything into their blogs, kitchen sink and all.
I find it really weird when readers email me saying “Oh, I’m glad you’re handling your relationship in such-and-such a way” when I am not even IN a relationship?
ur cute.. is that lipstick that u are wearing? u look cool..
hmmm… you’re right weird is spelled wierdly… *grin*
alphademon - you want to ask me out isit?!? *double grin*
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