I’m been blogging longer than most (just over five years) and I blog more often than most (usually every day), but I’m very careful to respect the privacy of my family and friends and indeed of myself. I guess that some bloggers become carried away and forget that their postings can be seen by anyone in the world with access to the Net and for all practical purposes are there for ever.<\/p>\n
There’s an article<\/a> in the “Observer” newspaper today about the unfortunate experience of American blogger Emily Gould<\/a>. The British piece refers to a much longer article<\/a> – some 8,000 words in fact – in the “New York Times” in which Emily writes about what she gained and lost by writing about her intimate life online. She concludes the piece as follows:<\/p>\n “I understand that by writing here about how I revealed my intimate life online, I\u2019ve now revealed even more about what happened during the period when I was most exposed. Well, I\u2019m an oversharer \u2014 it\u2019s not like I\u2019m entirely reformed. But lately, online, I\u2019ve found myself doing something unexpected: keeping the personal details of my current life to myself. This doesn\u2019t make me feel stifled so much as it makes me feel protected, as if my thoughts might actually be worth honing rather than spewing. But I still have Emily Magazine as a place to spew when I need to. It will never again be the friendly place that it was in 2004 \u2014 there are plenty of negative comments now, and I don\u2019t delete them. I still think about closing the door to my online life and locking them out, but then I think of everything else I\u2019d be locking out, and I leave it open.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m been blogging longer than most (just over five years) and I blog more often than most (usually every day), but I’m very careful to respect the privacy of my family and friends and indeed of myself. I guess that some bloggers become carried away and forget that their postings can be seen by anyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}