Hello?
Just checking to make sure my readers haven't shriveled up and died.
Yup. The last post here was August 2011. No biggie.
Why you might ask? I have a confession. I am going through a bit of a blogger identity crisis. I have 2 sides to my bloggy self.
First up? You have the "I love looking at people's houses and projects and babies and parties" self. The one who loves to share projects and recipes, attempt things around the house, and for some odd reason then share them with this fun little online community.
Then you've got the other side. The "Don't post photos of yourself online because creepy creepos can find where you live and chop you up into little pieces." The one who wants to stay pretty private on Facebook from certain people because it's kind of fun for them to NOT know what's going on in my life.
A few months ago, I attempted to find some balance and decided I'd *secretly* move the bloggy blog over to a new site. Don't worry. It still feels weird. Now I'm obsessed with NOT showing any personal items at all, and it's almost impossible! Should I crop our faces out of every picture? Should I not show pictures of my dog in case someone will want to dognap him?
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Here are my thoughts
- Nothing I put on here is taboo, offensive, or what I would consider a "career limiting move". Some blogs I see (of people I know no less) are frickin crazy. They put pictures of themselves looking like a mess, and for all they know their boss could be looking at it.
- I live 3 hours away from both sets of our parents. Both of them (and the grandparents living 6 hours away) LOVE the updates and photos on the blog. Nothing makes my day more than seeing a little email back from one of them saying they saw the update.
Why then, do I get a wierd feeling when someone I actually know asks me about my blog? It's not like this is my secret online journal that documents some goofy obsession (although some might consider my Justin Bieber fascination a bit sketchy....)
Someone give me some guidance here. I'm dying a slow death and need to find something in the middle. I don't want to keep having to worry about it. I'd rather just post what I want, when I want and let it ride. Does anyone else ever have these goofy worries?
I still follow you! I miss your posts about the Housewives show because God knows there is a lot of drama going on.
ReplyDeleteI view my blog as sort of an on-line scrapbook because even though I have every scrapbooking item known to man, I simply do not have time to sit down and do it. I keep saying that I will scrapbook them all one day but my children will probably be married by then.
I post pics of the kids, vacations, concerts, recipes, etc(everyday life stuff) and my friends comment on it all of the time. It actually makes me feel good to know that people are reading it and can relate to the crazy things that go on around here. My family, too, loves keeping up on our lives through my blog.
I will admit that there are times, though, that I wish I had a separate anonymous blog where I could really spew out my feelings about certain things and people BUT I'm glad I haven't gone there with it because I think it could get really mean and nasty and then those are words that I could never take back.
If you are worried about stealing photos, you could always watermark the photos you post on Picassa or some other photo editing site??
april@Party of Five
http://www.westerhold.blogspot.com
Ironically, I was thinking about the same thing last night. Not that I have an answer. And I also don't want to be chopped up by crazy people. But I like to blog. Yea, I don't know. When you figure it out..let me know :-)
ReplyDelete-Kara-
Am I one of the people who looks like a mess? LOL.
ReplyDeleteI totally get you. I am with April in wishing I could have an anon blog where I let lose my anger and frustrations with people and other blogs. That wouldn't be very nice, though.
I totally understand the debate! I have chosen to believe that any blog (no matter how "secret" I want it to be) could be found/read by anyone in my life (boss, friend, parents, coworkers). I choose to post pictures of us, disclose the city we live in , blah blah blah, because I figure the more elusive I am the harder people try to uncover the information. Not that I'm posting our address or anything, but does that makes sense? I think it's just the internet-era that we're living in these days.
ReplyDeletePlus, I could never remember what your other blog address was. Ha!
I do not have a blog, I am older and this technology is too much. I do enjoy reading blogs and getting great ideas about decorating, books, movies, fashion and just thoughts on life and travel. I understand at the privacy issue but there are so many blogs out there and with Facebook and Internet is anything private? I think you should continue what you do as I enjoy it, I just found your blog today. I loved your Africa posts as my husband and I did a short term missions to a village outside of Nairobi and the travel and food while there is so scary. Your thoughts were spot on! The children are so beautiful and we too got to visit a home with a great young family that works so hard. We are such blessed people in Minnesota!
ReplyDeleteI followed your blog a few months back, but then lost track of you after you switched over to the new blog. I think I deleted the email you sent out with the new blog name, sorry. Glad to see you're back. I feel ya on the blog identity weirdness. I feel kinda awkward when people talk to me about my blog in person. I actually just blogged about this exact thing a few weeks ago actually. I can't quite explain what it is. But whatever it is, it doesn't keep me from updating my FB status everytime I write a new post. Ha! Hope you're finding a happy blog life/real life balance. As a fellow Minnesota dweller I enjoy reading your blog, and hope you keep it up. All the best!
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