My 2c on blogging May 5, 2005
I feel the need, belatedly, to chime in on the what-not-to-blog discussion.
Firstly, I really don’t care what others choose to blog about. You can plaster the nitty gritty of your sexual exploits/eating disorder/fetishes, etc. all over your blog and I really don’t care. If I don’t like it I won’t read it. Until it pertains to me.
If you blog something about me or to me that you wouldn’t say to me, I care a great deal. And I’m probably pretty pissed off about it. And I think that’s fair enough. It’s no different to telling the entire office I’m a stupid bitch and being upset when I come and slap you for it (and no, that hasn’t actually happened).
For my own blog, the general rule is simply not to blog anything I’m not prepared to say out loud. These days the addendum to that is not to blog about work.
The thing is that a blog is not a diary. It’s not a little book that you can hide in your drawer. A blog is on the internet and everything you say is in the public domain. You don’t get to be upset when people find it and read it.
The work part of the rule is simply because my experience, and that of others, has shown that it’s best not to give nasty, vindictive people a weapon to bludgeon you with, because they will. And they will hide while they do it.
That’s my 2 cents.
That seems like a good guide - don’t blog anything you wouldn’t or haven’t said face to face.