OK, so I know that the entire point of a blog is to put your thoughts out there for public consumption. That sounds a little bit conceited to me sometimes, that I think that people will actually care about my perspective on things to actually come and read what I write. When I first started blogging, it was intended to showcase the kids for out of town family members. Now that the family situation has changed, I don't necessarily want my (sometime-in-the-future ex) in-laws reading whatever I write, especially because they've jumped on me in the past if I wasn't "nice" enough to them on my blog.
Then there's the whole work thing. It's no secret to my friends that I don't particularly like my job. I am grateful for it, I do my best to try to do a good job, and I work hard while I'm there, but the commute is long and it's not my dream job. Recently while checking my traffic stats I noticed my work IP address showing up when I wasn't at work/on my blog. Does that mean that someone at my job is reading my blog? I don't know--and it wouldn't be the end of the world if they were. But it makes me a little nervous, thinking office mates are reading about my divorce, or my kids or anything like that.
So I'm trying to decide.....keep the blog as invite-only? Start a new one with a different name and never log on from work?
Tell me what you think (and if you think I'm just paranoid and crazy, tell me that too ;)
4 comments:
Thanks for inviting me!
I think you are right to block your blog. You have too much going on for it to be public.
I don't have a blog for that reason. I just don't want my personal stuff out there for someone to google and have strangers visiting me in my home (computer).
I love to read them when I have time. Problem is so many people have blogs nowadays and I just don't have time to read them on a regular basis.
But I think you made a good choice.
I'm glad you invited me into your private world!
I think in your case it is probably a good thing. I would hate for someone at work to tell your boss about something and well that would just be bad. I'm curious how they found your blog though.
I think right now you need your blog as "therapy" ... and the world doesn't need to watch the evolution of you going through what you're going through right now. Just the friends who can read and comfort you. Sometimes we write stuff just to "take a load off" - and sometimes that means hating the job, hating the kids, hating everything. But friends know it's just venting and won't judge. The world isn't as kind. Just my thought. Maybe you're "private" for awhile...and go public again later.
it is your blog and you can choose to the people you want to see it! you have very personal stuff on here and I can understand not wanting everyone to be able to see that! im just glad that i got an invite!
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