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Do your friends and family read your blog?
Posted by agnespages • 4/27/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blog, real life
Do you friends and family know about your blog? Any regrets?
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Sure. The blogs on the website are mainly for them
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So does the fact that they know you keep you from saying certain things?
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my friends do have my blog.. it has caused some problems because in the action of me venting about my life.. some of them were included.. he he he
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Most of my friends and family read my cooking blog. They all say it is like talking to me. Like an M&M it has a hard exterior but it is sweet and soft on the inside.-
:-) Awesome :-)
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I like nuts
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sniggers
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wait a second!
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Heh
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My friends and family members are not bloggers. They do not read my blogging tips blog. Sometimes family members and freinds read my personal development blog.
I have no regrets because I post no images or identifiable personal information about my friends and family in my blogs. I learned this the hard way as I was cyber stalked by a man who had outstanding warrants for sex offenses. I asked friends and family previous to launching the blog where they stood. All of them made it clear that they didn't want me to post images of them and discuss personal matters involving them in my blog and I respect their choice.-
Cool. I don't post pictures of them either. Sometimes they post pictures of me and I am not always thrilled LOL!
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You mean,if you do not post images, your friends are not interested? I'm convinced the future of blogging is in pictures. Attention span of people is very short these days. And we're still basically visual creatures. And a picture is worth a thousand words. So I'm convinced the future is in images/video. It does not need to be a picture of your family or friends, by the way.
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@ timethief: wow (on the stalking) -- hope it all ended well!
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He's in prison - thanks to my neighbors, who were on the ball. I live in a very small community and when a stranger appeared with a picture of me looking for where I lived my neighbors denied that they knew me. They immediately wrote down the license plate number and wrote a good physical description up. They phoned the police and phoned me, and they arrived on my doorstep to be sure I was safe, while the police apprehended the sicko.
I don't think most bloggers understand the way digital fingerprints can lead sickos to them. Now I recommend reading the following:
Web Anonymity 101 - Digital Breadcrumbs as an introduction; internetducttape.com/2006/10/18/web-anonymity-101-digital-breadcrumbs/
Web Anonymity 102 - A Case Study of how easy it is to find information about a person online; internetducttape.com/2006/10/20/web-anonymity-102-a-case-study/
Web Anonymity 103 - Online Privacy on steps to protect your online identity; internetducttape.com/2006/10/25/web-anonymity-103-online-privacy/
How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else).
w2.eff.org/Privacy/Anonymity/blog-anonymously.php -
@ timethief: What a story!!! So glad you're OK.
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@farangrakthai
You mean,if you do not post images, your friends are not interested?
No that's not what I meant. I do have images in my posts in my blogs. None of them are images of my family or friends. lol ... obviously you have never visited my blogs -
Timethief, I'm afraid the only way to blog safely is not blogging at all...
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And I did visit your blog...
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so i am not the only one.. its a common disease it seems.
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I think they pretend to.
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LOL!
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some of my friends. None of my family. It's better that way. -
My family and family friends know about one blog, and sometimes visit.
And while I don't hide the link from it to my humor blog, I haven't mentioned it, either.
I kinda enjoy having that one family-free. It allows me a few liberties I might not otherwise take.
My own personal friends, however, know about both blogs. Sometimes they comment. A couple have allowed me to use them as characters in my stories, with their names changed.
I don't take pics of my friends (or myself much) though, to respect their safety. -
If any of them do, they don't know that it's me and so have never mentioned it.-
Do you blog anonymously? If so, do you ever wonder if someone can recognize you through your posts?
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I do wonder, but although I'll specify my location I rarely post anything that would identify me specifically.
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My friends and family already know what a simpleton I am. Blogging is my chance to advertise it to the whole world.-
But would you let them read your blog?
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Absolutely! I have a saying: Hiding only gives you away. Nothing is more fun than being completely open with people.
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@agnespages
But would you let them read your blog?
I'm wondering what you mean? How could he prevent anyone from reading a publicly available blog? -
@timethief: no you can't prvent them from reading it but I think the chances of them coming across it by chance are pretty slim (if the person is blogging under a screen name). I am using my own name and my friends read my blog but some people blog totally anonymously.
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My friends read my blogs, not so sure about my family! -
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As a new blogger, please know that specifically encouraging people to click on your ads is considered click fraud, and you can get banned from Google (or your advertising group) for it.
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I visted and clicked all your ads like 10 times each
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Thanks my friend-
no problem I do what I can. Now please visit my site and click on all my ads too. cookingforassholes.blogspot.com
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I have no idea about U.
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What? I didn't know about you and I clicked your ads now click on mine so we can both be rich
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don't leave me hanging here! Reciprocate!
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@wordsforlife
Please understand that in order to retain your Google Adsense account, you must abide by the policies of Google Adsense that you agreed to in order to acquire the account. Click my ads requests are click fraud requests which run against the Google Adsense policy and being caught leads to banning and blacklisting.
www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48182
Here at BC we do not tolerate such requests and TonyB (co-owner of Blog Catalog) has stated that if requests like the one you just made are posted to the forum they will be deleted.
In addition Admin has provided BC members with the "spam" link on the shoutbox messages, and when we receive click fraud requests or any other kind of spam we click the link and it goes to Admin. Admin keeps records of complaints they get and if it does not stop those BC members who are encouraging invalid ie. phony clicks on ads are facing being banned from BC too.
Prior to clicking the "spam" link in the shout I also report the blogger to Google Adsense directly.
How to report a Google Adsense Violation
www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/new-problogger-blog-for-style-beauty-fash...
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My family and friends read it, they may not follow on it, but e-mail me with comments if they have them. Some of the things are relevent to them and others are not. -
They should know...zobop republic is all over the web! He, he, he! -
where's your advertisement. you didn't hit any of the advertisement in my site. i just check
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@wordsoflife
Please read what I stated and STOP this unethical practice before you get banned. www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/do-your-friends-and-family-read-your-blog... -
That's because I don't have any damn ads now listen to timethief and stop trying to scam the system.
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Boy, aren't we Spammy. If you are new to blogging begging to click on ads is click fraud just as TT states. If you want to earn money work on your content and read Problogger www.problogger.net
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My family knows and reads. I don't truly get so personal I'm ashamed to hide anything. Though child abuse is personal other than myself and childhood pictures of my brother or mom I leave the names and images of my family out.
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I just told two friends about mine last week. They cracked up. -
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no one in my family knows english -
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After 5 years of blogging I just invited family and friends to view my blog in March. After I got over my own personal shock of doing this big leap, I settled in nicely with my new range of topics I could write about. I had a strict no write about people unless they knew about it policy before. Now that they all have access and have given me permission skies the limit.
At this point in time, I'm glad I finally invited them all.
Rebecca-
Awesome!
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I blog anonymously, but the combination of my gender, job and a few other details might easily give me away if someone at work found my blog. My family knows I blog but I don't think that they know the URL. A couple of close friends read the blog.
I've recently considered opening up and putting the blog link on Facebook since I don't blog about a lot of controversial personal or work situations. We'll see. -
if anyone i knew read my blog i think i'd die. not of embarrasment, but from them killing me. i don't exactly like my family, see, and some of my posts about them are insulting. quite a few i've deleted, on the off chance anyone finds out that i have a blog.-
So do you blog anonymously? Or how do you make sure they don't come across your blog by chance?
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They don't as far as I know.
One or two friends I know IRL knows about my blog but I'm not completely sure they follow my blog. I think they check it sporadically.
My family doesn't even know I have a blog and most of my friends also don't know.
Why? Because I never told them about it. Never felt like telling them. -
They do read my blog....my dad has mini heart attacks daily because he's a minister and I'm always writing something that makes him feel afraid for me....my secularist ideas, tarot cards, etc...are a bit much for him.
I don't regret it...I'm true to myself...and I think he continues to read it for that reason.-
LOL about the "mini heart attacks". Being true to yourself is the best thing to do so i think it's great.
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Some of my friends say they do but if they really do then it's not very often. My friends are incredibly lazy, and many of them are not very interested in the sorts of things I write about. However I know my dad and some of his friends do read it on occasion. -
my family and friends don't actually know that I have a blog. I think many of them would view it as a waste of time
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timethief wrote: I have no regrets because I post no images or identifiable personal information about my friends and family in my blogs. I learned this the hard way as I was cyber stalked by a man who had outstanding warrants for sex offenses. I asked friends and family previous to launching the blog where they stood. All of them made it clear that they didn't want me to post images of them and discuss personal matters involving them in my blog and I respect their choice.
Sorry to hear that happened to ya :/ As for myself, I make a point of not mentioning anything TOO personal when I am writing .. Yes, I do discuss my personal day to day experiences but things like : names, streets, area's, cities etc are NEVER included.. Your just asking for trouble otherwise ..
As for family & friends, I have invited a few but made it VERY clear to them that if they decide to comment to refer to me as Bettie only and not use my real name or any handle's associated with me from online etc etc ..-
That's very smart!
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They do and they leave comments too!-
That's great!
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Yes my mom and friends definitely read my posts.That's what makes blogging worth all the effort I put in.I do rant sometimes but I try not to sound too offensive.-
Very cool.
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Nope, I haven't told anyone that I have a blog. If they find it by accident, that's fine -
No. Only one of my friends reads my blog. Among family, my elder brother reads my blog once in a while. Apart from that no one else. I have told them about my blog and at times asked them to read it, but they don't seem to be interested. Probably, the content of my blog does not interest them or they don't think of spending time on a blog. Its funny that some of my relatives don't even know what a blog is.
Initially, I used to feel bad about it. I used to think that the people who know me, never read my blog. But, then later I just let it be and now I don't even expect them to visit my blog. I'm happy with the kind of appreciation that I get from people who don't know me ... people whom I may never meet.-
I have a close friend who blogs about a subject that is of no interest to me. I love him dearly but I have no interest in his blog.
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Not really, my boyfriend and oen of my friends both rwad it, and I think my uncle has glanced at it but other than that nobody really has the time or resources (internet) to read it. -
My family and friends never bother with my blog, website or my art.
Including my husband.
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I did start with anonymity but sometime this year, have links to my website and my online energy therapy business. Also with my new writing blog, the novel has my name on it but Agapelife has stuck.
@ Agnespages - visited your site? Sending positive,health-filled vibrations your way! Could not find your Asian features? LOL-
oh thanks, how sweet!
I know, I don't look Asian AT ALL! I look just like my mom.
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I did want to share my blog url with my pop with whom there is a lot of communication gap.. but he never visits it because he doesn't know what it is!
I doubt if anyone else reads it too, because they hardly know when I update it -
About half of my readers!-
oh wow!
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Most of my friends and family know about the blog, some read it to keep up to date with my mums health (known as the mumborg on the blog), some are just not interested in anything bloglike.
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dear tt,
thanks for one more invaluable information.-
huh?
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yeah they do, specially when their computers need troubleshooting.
btw, congratulations that you were able to revive this discussion.-
I didn't revive it, someone else did.
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No family or close friends, because they know the person behind the writing. I sometimes interject one of my aphorisms into a conversation, when the moment seems appropriate.
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I don't think so hahaha -
I have a few friends who read my blog. No family though. No regrets. I'm not bashing anyone on my blog so I have no reason to sweat it. -
Generally not. No regrets, just prefer to have "real" fans reading it, rather than people who "have" to be nice! So I don't publicize it too much to my friends and family. -
One of my daughters reads some of my blogs fairly regularly. No regrets - although there was one time when she found out about a family situation in the blog before we could reach her by conventional means. I'd have handled that differently, if we got do-overs.
I'm fairly careful to keep my posts to facts and opinions that make sense - to me, at least. (Except for the Narcissus-X blog, which is intentionally 'eccentric') Sounds dry, but that's the way I am. -
I would say most of the people that know me read my blog and comment... family included. I have always been a pretty open and honest person, and most people that read my blog or know me, know they always get me at face value. I am the same at home, at church, at a bar, at a restaurant. I think you get the point. They also are familiar with my rants, confessions, and generally colorful moods... and the fact that no subject is off limits unless it is just unkind or vulgar. On my blog I talk about my addiction to porn, the food I cook, I rant about my conservative christian friends, I encourage people to think, be honest and accept who you are. I think that's why most people...including my family tolerate me... they know I just want people to live better lives -
My family comes and reads some of my blog, friends as well, but not always. Some in my family do not share my political or religious views and they tend to shy away from reading them as it may cause undue stress during thanksgiving dinners (whistles and rolls eyes) -
Alexa Rank. Google PageRank. SEO.
My friends and family could care less.
Same thing happens when I start talking about the stock market. -
My family and friends read my blog, but mostly people (that I have never met) across the country and some in distant countries. I think my family reads it the least...my guess is because they hear all the stories about the bass fishing tournaments when I am home from tour. -
I don't think most of my friends (except for couple of them) read my blog at all. Mainly because they are not that much into techy stuff and it is much easier for them to call me than going through the blog (hmmm there something missing in my blog it seems)
And family you can say one. Rest have no clue. It is top secret. LOL -
When I write about family and friends, I let them know and ask for permission. If they don’t want me to write, I won’t. I leave out any detail that would personally identify anyone. My concern is one day I may have to job hunt and if a potential employer caught wind of my blog, it would be detrimental. We live in a conservative society and my blog would be a big turnoff to many.
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