i find the issue intriguing myself and have certainly thought many times about the implications posting to a blog can create for a person professionally, academically and politically.
while i realize keeping an online diary is a personal choice, one does have to be aware that the world could potentially read it, save it, forward it, and god knows what else.
that's why i personally have issues with posting to a blog as well as the reason that i am always conscious that anything i say is forever archived in the minds/computers of whoever is reading.
Posted by ashley at September 29, 2004 5:45 PM
but this is exactly where my frustration comes in. frustration and simply not being able to make my brain work that way - it just doesnt make sense to me.
it seems things fall into 2 main reasons why we have private issues:
1. because of work. this is absurd to me. i am hired to do a job. said job (most of the time) should have nothing to do with how i live my life outside of my job. if my job suffers as a result, i lose my job. i am not hired to be a robot. therefore, i shouldnt be expected to live and breath my job.
2. because of social understandings. this is also crap to me. i dont believe that most (again with the qualifier) quirks/feitishes/behaviors are that extreme. theres a reason people say theres a website for everything. so why do we have to feel ashamed for our behaviors?
it seems to me that both reasons help tear down this social stigamitism.
i understand what you are saying ashley, and perhaps its the safest/wisest course. but i dont believe that we should have to be on that path. i dont believe that the world should work like that.
i heard on stern as i pulled into school yesterday from a maxim calendar model or somesuch. and one of her 'points' was how she takes pics with her camera phone of her poop and sends it to friends.
gross, lame, whatever. if we all did it, think how poop would no longer be a big deal. perhaps a very bad example, but the first one i thought of.
i find the issue intriguing myself and have certainly thought many times about the implications posting to a blog can create for a person professionally, academically and politically.
while i realize keeping an online diary is a personal choice, one does have to be aware that the world could potentially read it, save it, forward it, and god knows what else.
that's why i personally have issues with posting to a blog as well as the reason that i am always conscious that anything i say is forever archived in the minds/computers of whoever is reading.
Posted by ashley at September 29, 2004 5:45 PMbut this is exactly where my frustration comes in. frustration and simply not being able to make my brain work that way - it just doesnt make sense to me.
it seems things fall into 2 main reasons why we have private issues:
1. because of work. this is absurd to me. i am hired to do a job. said job (most of the time) should have nothing to do with how i live my life outside of my job. if my job suffers as a result, i lose my job. i am not hired to be a robot. therefore, i shouldnt be expected to live and breath my job.
2. because of social understandings. this is also crap to me. i dont believe that most (again with the qualifier) quirks/feitishes/behaviors are that extreme. theres a reason people say theres a website for everything. so why do we have to feel ashamed for our behaviors?
it seems to me that both reasons help tear down this social stigamitism.
i understand what you are saying ashley, and perhaps its the safest/wisest course. but i dont believe that we should have to be on that path. i dont believe that the world should work like that.
i heard on stern as i pulled into school yesterday from a maxim calendar model or somesuch. and one of her 'points' was how she takes pics with her camera phone of her poop and sends it to friends.
gross, lame, whatever. if we all did it, think how poop would no longer be a big deal. perhaps a very bad example, but the first one i thought of.
blah.
stupid sociatal norms.
Posted by tripp at September 29, 2004 10:53 PMI guess my guess was right....
Posted by JVP at September 30, 2004 4:49 AMwhat a world we live in.....