Comments on: Blogging and the unhealthy addiction to transparency http://bloggasm.com/blogging-and-the-unhealthy-addiction-to-transparency Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:39:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Robert Nagle http://bloggasm.com/blogging-and-the-unhealthy-addiction-to-transparency/comment-page-1#comment-67805 Robert Nagle Sat, 24 May 2008 00:48:45 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/blogging-and-the-unhealthy-addiction-to-transparency#comment-67805 There is a related but totally opposite problem. When your blog garners no attention, you feel free to say absolutely anything.That makes it easy to let your guard down. I feel relatively sure that friends and acqaintances don't check my blog more than once or twice a year. But what if they do? And what if something I said three years ago offended them to their core? Common sense tells you not to mention the workplace or significant others on a blog. I just regard my blogging as a collection of notes to myself: sometimes brief and cryptic, sometimes bitchy. (I should mention I write short stories, so blogging is just a secondary matter). Female bloggers receive more attention from readers than males do and probably are focused on appeasing fans. BTW, isn't this type of article merely linkbait for the bloggers? There is a related but totally opposite problem. When your blog garners no attention, you feel free to say absolutely anything.That makes it easy to let your guard down. I feel relatively sure that friends and acqaintances don’t check my blog more than once or twice a year. But what if they do? And what if something I said three years ago offended them to their core?

Common sense tells you not to mention the workplace or significant others on a blog.

I just regard my blogging as a collection of notes to myself: sometimes brief and cryptic, sometimes bitchy. (I should mention I write short stories, so blogging is just a secondary matter).

Female bloggers receive more attention from readers than males do and probably are focused on appeasing fans.

BTW, isn’t this type of article merely linkbait for the bloggers?

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