When someone tells me that they have been reading my blog, my first thought is to try and remember if I have written anything bad about them. This happens even if I've never had a bad thought about that person (or people, as the case may be).
A few weekends ago, we attended a wedding. While eating dinner, I realized that pretty much everyone who reads this site was at the table. Later that same weekend, my parents made reference to my Top 100. Hmm... do my parents read here? Or did they hear about the list from some other family member? Does some other family member read here? Perhaps I'm not aware of all my faithful readers.
It can be easy to forget, as I'm typing away at my PC, that these things I'm writing can be read by anyone with access to a computer, anywhere they are connected to the Internet. I've known some other blogs to go down in flames once recognizing this fact. And I, too, put it out of my mind every once in a while.
Of course, every blogger dreams of eager readers, checking our pages every few hours, waiting for the next bit of knowledge we care to release. Perhaps we think those people are not our friends. We know our friends like us; we want strangers to like us too. We want those strangers to be amazed at our creativity, imagination, and insight.
My blog is probably just a way for my friends to keep track of what's going on in my life, and for them to be at least a little entertained by what I write. And you know, I'm fine with that.
Posted at 10:40:58 | TrackBackIt is indeed true. I canned my own Blog when people I know began to be offended by comments I wrote, either about them or by people they know or care for. I mistakened it for a diary where I could tell all my dark secrets as opposed to a place where I had to stroke my readers. It won't happen again.
Posted by Artie at 2004:10:04:18:42:09