Alter Ego?
I’m starting to feel a bit weary about this blog. I think I need to stop looking at my Feedburner stats. I’ve developed yet another addiction. I am constantly checking to see which cities visitors to Momisodes are coming from.
I suppose this all sparked from a little incident that happened a few weeks ago. Some of you may have noticed that in my email replies, I used to have this in as my signature:
Sandy
www.Momisodes.com
I had this set as my automated signature on my Gmail account, since all of your comments are sent there. Sadly, this account is where family and friends also send me email. So you can probably guess how I completely screwed up.
In the past few months I’ve replied to several family emails without deleting my signature. So when I noticed 2 incoming visitors from Miami (my hometown) on my Feedburner stats, my stomach overturned. Later that day I had a manic phone call from my mother screaming, “What the hell is going on? What is this about your house being haunted?”
*Runs to room and hides under covers* (Note to self- delete all posts about mom)
I have a hunch that my mom is not the only family member that has found my blog. I’ve seen recent incoming stats from cities where other friends and family live, as well as some of my ex’s.
Am I being paranoid?
Needless to say I regret not using an alias for this blog. But what’s done is done. I deleted my email signature and type it in manually now. I’ve also deleted my last name on most of my online accounts that will link to this blog.
Sometimes I feel like I lead a secret life online blogging. Especially while spending time with people offline who do not know about Momisodes.
Do you tell anyone about your blog? Friends? Family?
Proudly keeping my blog away from most of my freaks and geeks since 2005 … if my “Sybil” ever found out about my blog, she would lose what little is left of her mind(s).
I still enjoy anonymity. Some day I may reveal my true identity to all, but only a few of my followers know my real name, etc. I love being able to maintain enough anonymity to rant and rave about my family and my job without repercussion.
BTW, my personal email account and my blogger email account are TOTALLY separate for this very reason.
{{{Hugs}}}
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April 22nd, 2008 at 11:03 pm
There’s a very large portion of my family (basically, everyone except my husband) that have no idea I have a website. I’m not sure why I don’t tell them about it. I just haven’t. Now that I think about it, my husband is the only person I’m related to that knows about it. Besides my brother, he knows also. It’s no secret. It’s just nothing I’ve shared with them.
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April 22nd, 2008 at 11:05 pm
When I first started blogging the only person in “real” life that new about it was my DH.
I decided that most of what I am blogging about is not bad stuff and I wouldn’t care if someone I actually knew read it. So I’ve added it to my facebook/myspace. I update a lot on the kid so for our family that is out of town it gives them the ability to read what’s going on in our lives.
It’s also gives them the ability to see how my crazy mind works.
Frances’s last blog post..Pondering.
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:13 pm
I totally understand.
It’s a decision one has to make.
Public or anonymous.
Mine is all public and all know.
Needless to say that I have changed my habit of pouring out all my thoughts has changed.
Sometimes I regret it.
But hey, there’s always the possibility of making posts private.
OK, you’ll get no comments, but at least it got off your chest.
Hope you’ll not disappear one day?! :S
Hugs!
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:16 pm
I so know where you are coming from on this one. I have been totally anonymous on my blog (I thought)…Then I got an email from a major ex boyfriend who “found” my blog. What!!! How did he find my blog? Then I found some search engine that linked my name to my site!!! I changed it immediately, but the damage has been done. Now my major ex, reads my blog. Don’t vanish…we’d all miss you:)
Nap Warden’s last blog post..Cinderella’s Castle???
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:27 pm
you know, I made the mistake of telling my family and friends cos I was excited about the blog but now, I find myself caught in a blog rut!!!
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April 22nd, 2008 at 11:32 pm
I was new to blogs when I made mine. I found out about blogs and made one the next day. Yeah that was just a few months ago. I’m way behind. I thought when people had 67 comments on their page, they were all comments from friends and family. Wow, that’s alot of friends, I thought. I just thought that’s who read blogs, moms and ex’s. If I would have known I never would have told everyone I know. I just think of all the mother-in-law post I could be drafting up right now!
Cassey’s last blog post..Number 4
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Yeh, I tell everyone about my blog. Well, not EVERYONE, but it’s how family knows what’s going on (the little stuff). I personally like it. It’s quite freeing
!!
I could understand why some wouldn’t tho. I hope, um, your situation resolves itself? lol.
Hugs!
Ashley’s last blog post..Yesterday…
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:35 pm
my mom and my husband know about it… and read it.. hubby not as often as mom. I do censor myself somewhat.. a couple friends know about it too. So I just try to not post anything without having a conversation with any of them first… anything confrontational either doesn’t get posted or is at least not a surprise.. so far it’s ok for me but if I really wanna rip into someone, I’ll have to find another way.
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April 22nd, 2008 at 11:41 pm
When I first started my blog, I was happily (and ignorantly) dishing out my blog address to friends, and siblings, and ex-girlfriends! How I am regretting that now!! LOL.. There are just some things one would refer to remain ‘anonymous’ about! Too late! Dang! Oh what the hell!! Come what may! Bring them on!
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April 22nd, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Since I’m also not anonymous, I am thinking about an alternate blog where I can rant to my heart’s content.
My family and friends (even some of the hubby’s ofcmates) know about my blog so I AM limited to keeping the posts wholesome. And no posts about work, because that would be like waiting for a snake to strike you. But it’s a way for my extended family to keep up with what’s happening with my kids since I am also a terrible letter writer!
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April 23rd, 2008 at 12:03 am
I’m too lazy to come up with an alias, xD, so everyone knows my blog. I’m blunt and honest on my blog, just like I am in real life. I don’t hide from it, and while I welcome my family to complain about a post, I won’t take it down and I will stand behind it.
My parenting blog, though, I try not to use too much ‘personal’ information on it. Since I have my main personal blog linked on the site, it’s easier to do it that way.
But honestly, why hide? No matter what, someone you know is going to find you, and they’ll share that link.
Sarah’s last blog post..Earth Day 2008
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:29 am
I have told one person. She visited for a while, set up her own blog and then lost interest.
Funny you should mention this! Cause I mentioned a blog I visit to a guy at work and yesterday he was all weird with me. Now I remember that I actually posted a comment on the blog I mentioned and OMG what if he visited my blog! I bitch and moan and talk about my breasts and swear A LOT there…
Time will tell. Perhaps we should both write a ‘out yourselves people we know!’ post and get the little lurkers out in the open…
If my mum read my blog she would have kittens. With big huge claws that would rip out my spleen and serve it with a nice chianti.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 12:35 am
Sandy,
I have been blogging for coming up on 4 years now. My husband has been privy to it for 6 whole months. NO ONE else in my whole real life family knows about it. You’d have to be a well-paid PI to find out my real identity. I am totally inblognito. (TM!)
And you know what? I love it.
It’s my naughty little secret. Of course, every other word I say is F$#K. You, however, ain’t got nuthin’ to worry about. Don’t you dare change a thing.
Mr Lady’s last blog post..Just another Memey Monday
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:49 am
Yo, family and friends know about my blog, but I don’t post anything too controversial. I think lesson learned there for sure. Maybe start a new blog and keep it confidential. I won’t tell.
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:37 am
You mean your REAL name is Momisodes?!? I never knew that!
But seriously, I don’t think you have anything to worry about. Your blog is very PG, even G for the most part.
Daddy Dan’s last blog post..Work Sucks
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:22 am
MY family know I have a blog, but they don’t know what it’s about, or where it is. It’s easier and safer that way.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 3:18 am
LOL! I once sent a letter cursing a client that was supposed to be for my colleague but me being the genius that I am I clicked the send to everyone in my address book button and from that day, my personal and work related emails accounts are kept separated!
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April 23rd, 2008 at 4:27 am
Ack! What a time for you!
Originally the blog started out as a way for us to keep our families and friends updated on Elijah’s adoption. So it got spread to some office peeps and both sides of the family. It has caused a rift with a co-worker, quite ugly. She was offended about something that was written and it was even at her. They were just view points. We had to explain that this is our journal and she made the decision to read it.
I don’t regret making our blog public for that reason. However often I find myself wanting to complain about work or family issues, but I have no idea who reads now. So I just keep it to myself. I am way too lazy to start another right now.
Angela’s last blog post..Thursday Thirteen #5
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:47 am
My family does know, as does my husbands. As you know I blog with my sister Sassy and often our other sisters will guest-post for us. We’re a pretty open family though so there’s not a lot of censoring of what we say. Maybe just HOW we say it.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 8:17 am
Sandy, I totally get you here. My parents and my siblings know about it … but they don’t really read (I ask before i publish photos of them/ babies).
Some extended family know (my SIL’s, niece, cousins, couple of friends) who follow to stay caught up with the family.
I wish i had been a bit more anonymous earlier on too; I’ve started just using initials for the kids, since the hubs noticed I’ve actually got READERS now LOL!
I’m sure that post went over SO WELL (coming from a Chinese superstitious background, feng shui and all …. did Mom come over with a dozen mirrors to battle the evil spirits
!!
Karen MEG’s last blog post..Wordless Wednesday
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:28 am
Ok, I am quite anonymous. My online fun should not have offline people meddling in it. My husband reads my blog now and then but then my posts are pretty basic.
I would not be happy if people I know read my blog. I do reveal true identity to people who I think are closed to me in blogsphere.
You have nothing to worry about. We all love your blog.
Andie Summerkiss’s last blog post..The Bluest Eyes
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:35 am
I don’t care much if my family visits my site. I’ve actually given my dad the link several times but he’s never visited. I do not, however, give the link to co-workers. I don’t blog much about work, but I just like to maintain boundaries between my personal life and my professional life. Knowing my co-workers are reading my personal musings seems unsettling to me. Complete strangers I’m okay with, but the woman in the next cubicle? Not so much.
Heather’s last blog post..I enjoy being a girl
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:36 am
Awkward, to say the least. But I have never read anything that would be totally horrible for your family to see. Other than the fact that it feels as though your mom is reading your diary, it’s not that bad. And definitely don’t stop blogging! You’re one of everyone’s faves!
Karen’s last blog post..Earth Day 2008
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:47 am
a lot of my friends and some of my family read my blog, that is sort of why I started it, so I could share pictures and stories about my kids with them all. I was too lazy to be emailing each person individually of what was going on in our lives.
BUT, now that I’ve gotten more into blogging and find it a place to go and be myself and release feelings and thoughts and just be me… I can’t do it b/c I’m not sure who still follows my blog. I thought of starting a seperate one and just sending some of my readers there, but I’m not sure I want the added “responsibility” of another site. But, on the other hand, I think I might, that way I have a place to just say whatever and be whatever… and not worry about being judged at all. Sad as it may sound I do worry about being judged by my family and friends, but I’m okay with perfect strangers or people I only know through the blogosphere to know personal information about me, stuff I’m not willing to share with others close to me.
So, yes they do know about my blog. And yes, I hold things back from my posts sometimes, and Yes, I would like to blog about other things going on in my life, but I don’t. and Yes, I wish I kept it all a secret long ago.
Great to be back and get to read some of your posts!!
Hugs, Jenn
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April 23rd, 2008 at 8:48 am
I have two blogs…a personal one and a devotional one…I’ve wanted to share the devotional blog with everyone I know, but they’d find my personal blog and that freaks me out. I’ve thought about using separate IDs on each but I can’t remember my bank card pin, so why should I think I can remember yet another log in majig…
So yeah, I keeps it on the hush for my inlaws’ mostly…I have nothing I’d hide from the world, but my inlaws don’t know about my husband’s issues and for his sake I’ll do my part to keep it that way. =]
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April 23rd, 2008 at 8:52 am
Well I’ve never read anything on here that could be seen as upsetting for anyone!
My blog is known by my family and DH’s… it does mean that I maybe can’t say exactly what I want when I want, but then I figure I really shouldn’t bitch about ANYONE on the internet – sod’s law they will find out eventually!
I had thought about starting a completely anonymous blog, but then I figured if I don’t want anyone to read it who shouldn’t, I’m probably better writing it in a journal or something.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 8:53 am
I have never hidden my blog. It started out being about ‘Art’. A diary of a fledgling artist. That’s still the basic intent, although it does drift off-topic from time to time. But it is truthful. The only thing I’ve done in my blog that I see as potentially getting me in trouble is the occasional reference to Annie as SWMBO.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 8:54 am
Sweetie, everyone knows about my blog and reads it. I still post whatever the hell I like and they can get stuffed if they have an objection about it.
That said, until we had a decent conversation about it, my in laws kept getting their knickers in a knot about it. Now, though, they are fine.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 9:07 am
I told everyone I had a blog when I first opened because I wanted them to read.. now I wish I had not. Esp with my Mom.. I have had many conversations about “my blog”.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 9:19 am
I have ALMOST slipped about my blogging a couple of times. Sometimes I think I’d feel better just saying it, but then I think I’d lose my unbiased outlet for venting and spouting off my randomness. Sigh… so torn.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 9:22 am
My husband knows about my blog and all my close friends too…actually they are a big support and are great commenters. There’s a reason why though, I don’t want to put my real private stuff online, even if no one I knew read my blog. I’ve found some sneaky ways to B#$%H about people without them knowing HA! but mostly I keep my blog positive…I try
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April 23rd, 2008 at 10:26 am
Well, a few people in my family know, but I haven’t told my dad about it, or my mother. She would be more likely to find it before him. I would deal with it if they found out, but I might block my mother’s address from having access if she did. Don’t know what I would do if my dad found it. Maybe just ask him not to read it.
Just continue writing here, and maybe she will lose interest? Or, have you considered asking her not to read it? (I suppose that would be a tricky conversation…)
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April 23rd, 2008 at 11:29 am
I haven’t told anyone in my family about the blog. They don’t know, they don’t need to know. It’s not that I talk about them (okay, occassionally the in-laws…my my in-laws aren’t likely to read my blog anyway…but I digress)…I just don’t think they need to know about it. It’s mine. When I recently mentioned that I met someone with a son same age as mine and was asked by my parents “why”…I simply said ‘just because’, and that I’d met her ‘online’. Didn’t say it was through blogging, didn’t need (or want) to.
But I’ve told friends, people from my playgroup. The address IS in my regular email (not-attached to my blog) address…so that my playgroup can see it, but it usually ends up deleted from my emails for one reason or another.
As far as your friends and family reading it…I don’t see what the major deal is. I’m sure most of them will lose interest after a time. Just relax and continue to be yourself.
Sadie’s last blog post..Come look at the freak…
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:36 am
What you’ve written ‘resonates’ for not long ago something similar happened to me with a long lost high school friend who tracked me down and when the automatic signature didn’t get deleted (though I swear I actually DID delete it) he read my list of 101 Things and surveyed both my blogs … then responded catching me totally by surprise. Fortunately he agreed to keep my presence ‘anonymous’ and I’m grateful.
Actually my friends and family know about both of my blogs but no one seems to read them … (chuckling here) … and that’s okay with me. When I set them up, I linked them to a separate email address that isn’t associated with my real name because I wanted to be ‘careful’ about this whole blogging experience. When I shared some original artwork I didn’t realize the images enlarged when clicked upon … but they do … and my real name IS out there … though you have to look for it.
I guess whenever I post something I ask myself how I’d feel about family & friends reading it … and have done from the beginning. I’ve marveled at your honesty all along … realizing your name is right there … and I’m saddened for the problems you’re experiencing. I’d hate to lose track of you … because I enjoy the interaction … but I trust you to do what’s right for you. Recently bloggers I enjoy have taken their blogs ‘private’ … but I’m not sure how that would work for you.
Whatever you decide … I wish you all the best.
Hugs and blessings,
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April 23rd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
I am SO out there in the public!
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April 23rd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Nobody outside my immediate family reads my blog. They don’t do that kind of stuff. They barely can email.
Please don’t start writing to please your family – what fun is that (for us.)
Hint: you do know how easy it is to have multiple gmail addresses, and forward them all to the same “main” account?
Then you can leave your signature intact on your blog emails, but your others can be a different signature.
BTW: you can change the address in the “from” field very easily.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 12:08 pm
I told my sister about my blog, thinking it would be something “cute” that the two of us can laugh about. Then she told my mom, my mom told my aunt, my aunt told my cousin, etc. Now I think that my entire family knows about it.
Which kind of sucks and makes me want to set up a “secret” blog where I can complain about certain members of my family…something I feel like I can no longer do.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I keep my identity fairly under the radar because I don’t really want people I know to read my blog, like my family or work associates. I don’t use initials or pseudo names for my husband or son but I do for myself ; )
I think I’d feel a little weird if I thought my family or worse, ex boyfriends were reading it. Can definitely understand why people want to keep their identity secret. I’d probably laugh my head off if I found an ex boyfriends blog.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 12:40 pm
I set my blog up as a way to keep in better contact with family members who are living further away. Along the way I have also made some blogging friends. I have kept my blog separate from work comrades. Needless to say I cannot write whatever enters my brain. I am O.K. with this set up although I have often thought of getting a secret blog…hehehe. I do understand the attraction. My daughters do have a secret blog that they share with a friend that is private to just them. Uninvited guests cannot go there. That is probably where they can rant about me. LOL
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April 23rd, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Some folks know about my blog and some don’t. I mostly am fairly careful about what I blog about, which probably makes my blog less interesting, but so be it.
I’m sorry your mom was upset about your house posts!
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April 23rd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
My husband and some of my family know about mine. I wish I wouldn’t have told anyone so I could have a more, whatever I want to say, blog. But since I know relatives read it, I keep it very g-rated. Maybe I start another blog later and not tell anybody….
Chanin’s last blog post..Wordless Wednesday
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:10 pm
both of my parents have my blog address. most of my friends do, too. the only people i don’t want my reading are my coworkers. but i’m sure they also read my blog. oh well.
jameil1922’s last blog post..Thinking Aloud
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
My parents aren’t on the internet..and I actually TOLD my inlaws that are out of town so they could keep up w/ pictures and family stuff but they weren’t interested..I can hardly get them to look at my flickr links I send them.
I did have a problem with one EX Friend who would share information I blogged as if I had TOLD her the information. It was very unsettling..I closed that blog..hence I’m Second Journal now..
mp’s last blog post..Photo Contest
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I had told my friends and family about my blog when I first started it because my intent was to keep them updated with stories and photos of the family. Because I know they possibly visit, my posts are really just about the kids – nothing about any marital woes that I might or might now be having or relatives/friends that I might be upset with for what ever reason. I have a blog that I set up way before this one that only my sisters read so that’s where we usually do our venting.
My husband doesn’t really get why I have a blog or my [addiction] fascination with other people’s blogs. He’s read mine a couple of times but only because my daughter might have left it up on the laptop and he says the stories are “cute” but that’s as far has his interest goes. My parent and in-laws don’t really cruise the internet so I’m safe there, at least! =)
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April 23rd, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Yahoo offers free accounts,if you wanted to just set one up and have tie comments go there.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 3:22 pm
I was stupid enough to tell my BIL & SIL about my blog before anyone read me. Now, I have to reign myself in a bit. I wish I’d never told them. I’ve had to answer for things before.
Anglophile Football Fanatic’s last blog post..Beating a Dead Horse
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:39 pm
There have been several times when I felt censored because people I know read… like wanting to write about being depressed, or about something my parents did that upset me and that kind of thing. First, I just want to get things off my chest and second, I know others will relate. I don’t write them though because I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings or I don’t want my inlaws knowing that I get depressed.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
My sisters blog on my blog, and a few close friends read it — but those are the people I’d tell anything anyway. My parents don’t really read it, and that’s fine. I’d prefer it that way, since it’s a little too diary-like for me to be comfortable with that. But if they found it, it would be okay, I suppose. I DO use psedonyms for everyone, though, as well as not saying anything or showing anything in photos that would enable anyone to figure out where real me lives. I’m paranoid about my kids like that.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 6:44 pm
I have mentioned it to a select few… but don’t often remind them. I so get that.
psst** I am the one in Foresthill.
Oh yeah, and I have made an award for my blogging buddies…and you are indeed one of them. Come get one!!
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April 24th, 2008 at 12:18 am
hi sweet sandy,
“so grateful to be mormon” is on my birth certificate. haha.
i rarely talk about my blog with anyone in my alaska life. i have never posted my last name on the blog. and when i am talking about others, i purposely call everybody an initial instead of their names.
i understand your wanting privacy
so grateful to be mormon’s last blog post..over in an instant
April 24th, 2008 at 12:43 am
I have not told my family. Friends? Mostly. And I don’t even write that much that my family doesn’t already know. But just when I get to where I am abt to tell them, I read a post like this one and say, “Nope. I’ll keep it Nola and Sun and Captain Sarcastic!” If they find out, so be it, but I hope they don’t!! Sorry!
Nola’s last blog post..Mosca’s Chicken a la Grande
April 24th, 2008 at 12:59 am
Oh! What a DOH moment! Well, seeing as I depended on friends and family to visit my blog (so that I knew I wasn’t blogging to the sound of crickets), they ALL know about it. Funny, I have the opposite problem. My in-laws refuse to read my blog because (they feel) I don’t give my wife enough props on it. And I don’t have pics of her. Uh… that was by request – my wife’s request! *sigh* you can never please everyone.
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April 24th, 2008 at 1:36 am
I tried not to, but I couldn’t remember to keep my tongue tied, nor to delete my signature… as you know. Now they all know, and I have actually enjoyed the challenge of communicating things differently… and letting go – let the crazies be crazy while I write what I feel is fine. I definitely hold back, but I feel it keeps me honest/prevents gossip that would eventually be found out anyway.
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April 24th, 2008 at 1:41 am
perhaps u can create one wo them knowing which is mainly for ur haunted stories?..hehe
so how is the hse? i assume its ok now that u dont blog abt it…
wen’s last blog post..Wordless Wednesday:Playing Chess
April 24th, 2008 at 4:30 am
Heh. I started out blogging JUST for friends and family. They are still there, lurking in the background, just daring me to type a cuss word, write about them, or tell a story that they can use against me for years and years. Oh, they’re there. They think I don’t know, but I do.
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April 24th, 2008 at 10:27 am
My husband knows about my blogs and lots of people know in a general way that I blog. But no one has ever asked for the address and I have never volunteered them. I’m not really anonymous though. I have a total lack on ingenuity when it comes to online aliases. It wouldn’t take much clicking after a google search on my regual forum alias to come across my blog. I even have a link to my crafty one on my myspace page & my blogger profile will give you the others. But to the best of my knowledge no one I know in real life has ever visited any of them. I really think I would have heard if they did…..
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April 24th, 2008 at 11:38 am
No one knows about my blog! But I suppose you had guessed already, since you read it! The day someone should discover it I guess I would have to close it.
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April 24th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
I find hiding and pretending and weaving webs in any part of your life to be so endlessly tiring.
Probably what it feels like to cheat on your spouse, really. Always looking over your back, worrying if you said the wrong thing.
Who has time for that?
Anyone who has a problem with how you really feel needs to get a clue.
Sarcastic Mom’s last blog post..You may now peer into my uterus.
April 24th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
OMG – my stomach turned with yours when your mom called you. I can only imagine!
Me? I don’t use an alias either, and yes – my friends and family DO know about my blog. They’re not real tekkie though (some don’t even have e-mail – how do you NOT have email?) and they drop in on me to check out what I’ve been up to but they don’t comment.
Hmph. There goes family for ya. I’ll hear about it the next time I talk to them, but sh*t. I’m a WAHM with 3 boys – and it’s pretty much useless to call anyone at midnight when I’m finally free, right?
Oh well – go figure. If they don’t like what I write – they can go read someone else’s blog.
TGIF!
Dette’s last blog post..The Traveling Daycare
April 25th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
That’s funny, I never much thought about my family or friends visiting my blog. I know they do and my Mom and her friends are always laughing at me at work. However, when I start to get strange looks from people on the street, then I may run and hide! But that happens anyways with or without the blogging
April 25th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Unfortunately (or sometimes, fortunately), lots of family and friends and creepy stalkers know about my site. Oh well. I guess it adds up to extra dollars when they click. Heheh.
imaginary binky’s last blog post..When bloggers come out to play
April 25th, 2008 at 8:16 pm