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| Does your blog reflect you? |
| 04.13.05 (3:30 pm) [edit] |
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Interesting question I raised with someone that I'll pose to you guys out in Tblog-land... Do you think your blog is a reflection of yourself? Do you care what others think? What do you think of the people hawking their 'new posts' on Tblurt. People begging other people for their suggestions, insight, etc. Don't you find some of the blogs out there utterly reeking of desperation. (No, I won't name names.) For myself, Scuba Diva is NOT me. I present a certain 'facade' of superficiality at times, aloofness at others, and a spirit of humor and drama to kick. What I write about IS true, but I write from a role, a perspective that is more shallow at times. Some people that read my blog before meeting/speaking to me have remarked that I am a lot deeper than what they expected. Do I care what others think? At times, I have. I was distracted by rankings, the number of hits I got, etc. Then I remembered why I was blogging. For me, me, me! If some nitwit that I've never met has nothing better than to review my blog in a mean-spirited way, so be it. I can't please everyone. There's enough negativity in the world that I don't need to add to it. (Don't confuse that with my blunt "what the f**k were you thinking?" replies to some people's postings. It's not mean - I just don't sugarcoat things.) I am NOT my blog. But my blog is part of me. |
posted by: surrogate (reply)
post date: 04.13.05 (12:53 pm)
I think we all blog to fill some sort of void. If I look at it as honestly as I can, I know why I started blogging, but my reasons for continuing have changed...or, to allow myself to feel better about myself, let's say my reasons "have evolved." It's a kick though, isn't it?
posted by: drunkkus (reply)
post date: 04.13.05 (12:56 pm)
(honestly)
Now you got it! Maybe you are #2 to jump off of my list.
posted by: ScubaDiva (reply)
post date: 04.13.05 (2:34 pm)
Reply to: surrogate
Actually, I've kept journals since I was 6. I have a trunk full of them. I don't think it's a void per-se - at least for myself. But I definitely think a lot of people DO use blogging and the community and 'relationships' to fill other spaces in their lives.
posted by: billlyryan (reply)
post date: 04.13.05 (3:43 pm)
I like you. Your blog is cool. But I like you.
posted by: lynne (reply)
post date: 04.13.05 (4:36 pm)
I think my blog reflects me pretty well. I will admit that I started it as just a more convenient way to journal but now I really dig the attention. That is ok though. It is normal to like attention :)
posted by: jennirae269 (reply)
post date: 04.13.05 (6:57 pm)
That's what it should be all about... you....however you want to represent yourself, or if you want to be someone else completely. For some people, it is about the attention, but they need something more than a blog to fulfill their needs. (In my opinion)
posted by: producerboy (reply)
post date: 04.13.05 (7:15 pm)
lucky I know the real you! I love your writer's persona as well.
posted by: FinalyFree (reply)
post date: 04.13.05 (8:09 pm)
My blog is an escape...eventhough it normally revolves around my everyday life. It's an outlet for me to express myself without the fear of ridicule or hurting someone's feelings. It's much like the diary's I kept for many years. My own thoughts and opinions, free to say exactly what I feel. I'm not that open with most of my friends and family.
posted by: surrogate (reply)
post date: 04.14.05 (8:26 am)
Reply to: ScubaDiva
For me it fills the void of always having wanted to write for someone other than just myself....and it forces me to sit down and try to come up with something every day or two. I keep journals too, but the blog is a different sort of thing. Like you, I assume a slightly different side of my personality on the blog, and it's fun to give life to "another" me...
I just reread this and I'm not sure it makes any sense... alas
posted by: riverrat338 (reply)
post date: 04.14.05 (12:02 pm)
Seems that you're getting a few different reasons for creating a blog. they all have something in common though; they're representative of at least some part of their creators. I created mine mainly as a way to write about stuff I think of or find interesting. It's a good way for friends to share ideas and convos while they're not together. I've found it hard latelt to come up with original stuff though. I don't like doing what's been done before.
posted by: trekguy (reply)
post date: 04.14.05 (2:47 pm)
I like you my blog is not all of me. I hold back part of me, never really letting everything out.
There are my close friends to whom I let out my true self. Even some here on Tblog I've made some good friends to whom I've shown more of my real self.
posted by: SweetDiva (reply)
post date: 04.14.05 (4:07 pm)
99% of the time....I'm me on my blog. though I don't get to deep into the personal on there....it's me....what u see is what u get.
I quit writting the personal stuff in there awhile back...but i represent me @ all times, just not all of me.
posted by: SweetDiva (reply)
post date: 04.14.05 (4:08 pm)
i like your blog cause you always make me laugh =)
posted by: SweetDiva (reply)
post date: 04.14.05 (4:12 pm)
and I could care less what anyone thinks of me or my blog....who are people out in the internet world that try to judge others?
I look at them like they must be feeling about them self what they try to say about someone else. Who are they to judge anyone?
Keep doing you ma .... I enjoy reading this blog of yours.
posted by: riverrat338 (reply)
post date: 04.15.05 (6:58 am)
i don't think it's that you HAVE to hold back parts of yourself. Just because you've got a blog doesn't mean you are obliged to write about your deep thoughts or deep emotions. ..unless that's why you created the blog.
posted by: onebadjen (reply)
post date: 04.17.05 (9:37 am)
i think mine is me... although i have been told by people i have met that i am alot "nicer" than i appear online.
posted by: JT (reply)
post date: 04.18.05 (11:25 am)
Interesting topic. My online persona is probably the best part of myself in some ways, even if I don't reveal everything about me.
I'm very attached to this topic since I met my husband online 10 years ago. It's not something I recommend to everyone, though. For some people, the Internet is an escape or porthole. For DH and me, it was a safe place to come into our own and express ourselves in a way that felt less judgemental than real life.
I always said that creating my online persona helped me find myself. But I'm also kind of full of shit. [grin]
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