Blogging:

- An online journal
- A way to broadcast the latest happenings in your life
- A venting tool
- An outlet to note funny stories, ideas, and dreams
- A potentially dangerous way to reveal parts of your personal life to the undeserving

I love blogging, even though I don’t practice it consistently. However, I can’t tell you how many times someone has mentioned my blog in surprise at what I had written. When ever I write a story, I immediately think to myself, “Now, is there anyone I don’t want to tell this story to? Is there a way to write it with more innocence or anonymity?”

There’s a huge difference between an online journal and an online diary. Online diaries shouldn’t exist, because they’re supposed to be private. So publicizing a diary wouldn’t make much sense, would it? Nonetheless, the urges to log important and private events in a blog exist. Should we keep diaries and only post selected entries on blogs?

I often wondered the same thing about Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw. She wrote a weekly column for the New York Times, which included very personal stories and situations about herself and her friends. In reality, this publicity of their most delicate issues would definitely have caused conflict within these issues themselves. When Carrie would date a guy, she’d write about it in her column. The guy ALWAYS knew she wrote the column and therefore read about himself through her eyes in the next publication. How did they never get scared off or intimidated by the relationship’s advertising? I just never bought it.

Blogging has positives and negatives, but I will continue until I screw up royally by outing a friend’s love affair with a married man.

Peace out.
  ¶ 3:46 PM