He Said/She Said: To Blog Or Not To Blog?
Posted by: Richard Blakeley & Jessica Amason
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relationships, video
9:00AM, Friday March 27th 2009
Recently, we found ourselves in Austin, Texas for South By Southwest’s Interactive Conference. It was a tornado of fish tacos, rain and excessive Twittering. But the rare occasion to have bloggers and big players in new media together for a week made it a perfect opportunity to ask their opinion on the web-couple’s ultimate dilemma: To blog or not to blog…
The question elicits passionate pros and cons to airing your relationship on the interwebz—and the overwhelming consensus is: tread lightly. Though, perhaps most interesting was that of our web-savvy subjects, the men didn’t mind web-transparency and its repercussions whereas the women conveyed a more cautionary tale.
Our take? Use your best judgment and know what you’re getting into. If nothing else, a good rule of thumb is to keep your public details positive and the unsavory bits offline.
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Lynn
wrote on March 27 2009 @ 12:49 pm: [report]
Honestly, I’ve never understood the desire to blog about your private life online. I have blogs but they are about totally superficial stuff - food, fashion, lingerie. I don’t think I could date someone who put private details up for the world to see.
SassySexpert
wrote on March 27 2009 @ 01:18 pm: [report]
I have often blogged about my relationship with it ups and downs and ons and offs and yet, I finally realized that I don’t *have* to blog about it and its details. I am finally beginning to realize if I want to have a private life and not explore it with others (even friends), I do not have to and this realization has been illuminating.