It’s been about 2 months now since I stopped the madness and started keeping one single lone blog. When I thought about doing this I was really concerned that changing my audience… combining them really, would ruin my blog and my sense of blogging. It hasn’t. In fact, it has made it better.
Along those same lines. There is a troubling thing going around the "student world" of blogs. There is this thing that basically goes like this… "Write notes to 10 people of things you want to say that you would never say. Turn off comments and just say it." This is stupid on so many levels it almost isn’t worth commenting on, but I will anyway.
Why is it dumb? First of all, it is dumb to say something rude that you know the person is going to read. Yes, get over it… there is no anonymity on blogs! (So if you are blogging something and you don’t want your mom to read it, don’t blog it!) Secondly, just because you turn off comments for a post doesn’t mean people’s feelings are not hurt. To see stuff that reads, "I hate your guts and I wish you weren’t so annoying" isn’t going to help. Why not just tell the person for real?
This stupidity (great thing about blogs is that I don’t have to sugarcoat, right?) isn’t limited to students. I see something very similar on some of the pastoral blogs I read. Then they wonder why their words get them in trouble? Genius!
As for me, I am happy to have everything nice and simple. One blog, and I am careful to not say things that I wouldn’t want my mom to read. (Heck I even gave my mom the URL… as if "adammclane.com" isn’t public enough.)
Here’s my recommendation: If you are blogging, realize it’s public and the things you say there are real.
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