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Posted: 08/05/05 Blogging has its advantages and disadvantages, actually, they’re just two sides of the same coin. Knowing that anyone and everyone might read what I write makes me careful not to say anything I wouldn’t stand on a street corner and shout. In a way, this makes for honesty. When you read about my doubts regarding our current president, you know I would own up to them in public. I never sign my name as Anonymous. At the same time, when I’m really discouraged or upset or angry, I can’t go to my blog and pretend it’s a private journal. I can’t spew my feelings and recant them tomorrow in the light of a new day. Which means I sometimes don’t write about what’s really going on in my world like I would in a truly private place. If there’s a family issue, it probably won’t be resolved here. If there’s someone close to me with whom I’m angry, you’ll never know. So does that make me less honest as a writer? I don’t know. What I do know is that it makes for filtering what will be poured into the blogging universe. Certainly, I write about my family and friends and my own experiences, but it’s becoming more like a newspaper column than a record of where I am personally at any given point in time. I wonder how other bloggers feel about this.
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