Have you ever noticed how much easier it is to share your opinion with strangers than with people whom you personally know? It's one of the strange effects of the digital society we're living in today, I guess.
Facebook, twitter, blogger, tumblr, etc. all provide us a platform to create a fake/desired image of ourselves. Of course everyone wants to be liked (both in the old-fashioned sense of the word and in facebook terms) so I don't blame anyone. It's human nature and no social networking website will ever change it.
According to Merriam-Webster 'a blog is a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks provided by the writer'.
Personal journal. I like the idea. I intend to turn this blog into one. I want to create rather than merely duplicate content.
Facebook, twitter, blogger, tumblr, etc. all provide us a platform to create a fake/desired image of ourselves. Of course everyone wants to be liked (both in the old-fashioned sense of the word and in facebook terms) so I don't blame anyone. It's human nature and no social networking website will ever change it.
According to Merriam-Webster 'a blog is a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks provided by the writer'.
Personal journal. I like the idea. I intend to turn this blog into one. I want to create rather than merely duplicate content.
I want my digital self to be as close to my real self as possible. I want to take the responsibility for what I'm doing here, which gets us back to my initial thought. People who know me in real life sometimes comment on something they see on my blog stating that 'it's so not you'. And they may be right.
So from now on this blog will be 'so me'.
Still interested?
ps. Just told my husband how hard it was to write this first post after that long hiatus. He suggested to write 'hi, everyone, I'm back'. He always makes me realize that I'm the one making my own life so complicated.
I am with you, sometimes is so much easier to open your mind to those how really want to listen and that share something with you, although is virtually, that with those that living too closed even really know you.
VálaszTörlésWellcome
I like it! I will be listening!
VálaszTörlésI avoid sharing too much that's personal on my blog, not because I wouldn't want to give readers a true look into my life, but because my mother reads it. Isn't that terrible? Instead I use the blog like a journal of what's going on around the house (one step removed from what's going on in my head, our lives)...and as extra motivation to make every corner, drawer, space in the home work well for us!
Dear ibb and Shannon,
VálaszTörlésSo true.
Sometimes when I post something I feel embarrassed because I know that my colleagues/mum/friends, etc. will read it... it's kind of sad though, but people can be really judgemental.
Well, I hope to give you something original, but I, too, try to refrain from revealing too much about myself.
This is so true. I've also been trying to keep my blog more simple, and me. It's hard. But when you go back and look at posts that aren't true to yourself it's like looking at someone else's blog.
VálaszTörlésGood luck!
kate
Of Course!! More interested than ever!
VálaszTörlésI am new to your blog, so might not notice any change......authentic and true to you is always best!!
with all of the online inspiration (and aspirations...) it's hard not to sail into the stratosphere, isn't it?
VálaszTörlésI always feel like Fall is more of a 'fresh start' season than other times, so best wishes!
Will be following:)
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