"Yes. I know I've been rather scan-happy lately. I'd apologize, except that it's actually been refreshing and more than a little necessary to take the occasional break from the Truman-Show-ness of all-super-personal-blogging, all-the-damn-time." from here.Obviously, I don't have 10% of the readership Amy does, but I think a lot of us who blog likely get caught up in this dilemma. When is too much information too much? Personally, I don't like the idea of blogging for the sake of blogging. I don't have that interesting of a life, and I'm very okay with that. When something comes up that I feel like I can share, I totally will. But mostly, we're just this ordinary family who has the same day nearly every day.
I have crossed my personal line a time or two. For example, I've revealed too much about my feelings toward several of my family members. The things I've said are not things I would not say to them in person, however, I feel bad I would write things about them in public. I wouldn't do that to people I didn't know. (ASIDE --- I'm just not one of those people who gets into celebrity gossip and all that. I can't help but remember that they're real people. /ASIDE)
So, questions to all of you: Do you feel the pressure of "having to write something?" Have you crossed the line with what you've revealed on your blog? How do you keep yourself in check?
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I've kept the fact that I blog a secret from my friends and family but ended up putting my site's address in my FB profile. So now, I sometimes need to remind myself that my mom, dad and friends may see it.
And my husband reads, so while I wanted to post last week that I bought new jeans, I didn't because I didn't want him to know I bought new jeans.
Sometimes I write a post just to post. Because I'm a creature of habit and once I get out of the habit, I'll stop completely. And I enjoy blogging, so I want to keep it up.
But I feel pressure a lot of the time to be funny and snarky (since it is in my URL) and when I write something that isn't, it is tough. Until my readers respond and tell me it is OK to write what I feel and I don't have to be funny all the time. Which is nice and reminds me why I blog in the first place.
I don't write about family or work. I WANT to, but they know the URL and even if they never read, I don't want them to one day choose to read it and then I upset them. I also don't want to get fired. :)
Very few people I see day to day read my blog (I think it is one and only one right now...). So, I don't have to worry about sharing something about someone and them getting mad or anything! But, i do struggle with what to post and what not to. What do people want to hear? What is just sitting there in space that I don't even care about? If my readers don't find what I write read-worthy and it isn't for memories later, why should I post it? But, determining if I post falls into that category is hard!
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