Good friends & family read your own blogs?

[shootingstar]

Or do they know about your blogs, if you have created one?

Just wondering. There are some really strange blogs, content-wise. Some just darn puzzling and incoherent. I've often wondered if their loved ones knew what these people were like online....in terms of their self-expression and thinking on the Internet.

Mine are aware of my blogs. I send updates whoever is interested.

[zoom-zoom]

My friends and family, yes. My DH's family...not so much. I gripe about them on there sometimes. My MIL is a royal PITA and I need a place to vent about her sometimes. I liked FB a lot more before she "friended" me, too. Now I have to filter everything I say there. I could always block her from seeing my wall, but she would likely catch-on, then get nosy about what I am keeping her from reading.

[Cataboo]

I usually have multiple accounts for things - there are my private picasaweb accounts for family pics, vs. ones that i only post pics that i am comfortable with all of the internet seeing.

[zoom-zoom]

Open up a separate account under a different name, and add the chosen few.

Don't friend you main account, keep them separate:)

I've considered doing this. Would be kinda fun, too.

[JennK13]

Yes, friends and family know/read our blog. But, we wouldn't even have one if we didn't move. We made it when we moved out of state so we could keep our friends/family up to date on how we were doing. Now that most of them are on FB, I don't update the blog as much as I used to.

[oxysback]

My family and friends read my blog (hopefully!). I make it a point to never post anything publicly on the internet that I wouldn't say to someone in real life. That stuff can come back to haunt you!

I guarantee that my blog will always be family friendly and void from any political rantings. It will include bits about our church and activities, because that's just who we are, but nothing preachy. I want it to be someplace I can muse on life's funny happenings and to serve as a journal, of sorts, because I'm too lazy to actually keep a written one!

[GLC1968]

My family and friends read my blog (hopefully!). I make it a point to never post anything publicly on the internet that I wouldn't say to someone in real life. That stuff can come back to haunt you!

I guarantee that my blog will always be family friendly and void from any political rantings. It will include bits about our church and activities, because that's just who we are, but nothing preachy. I want it to be someplace I can muse on life's funny happenings and to serve as a journal, of sorts, because I'm too lazy to actually keep a written one!


Ditto, almost exactly. Of course, I haven't been blogging in months, so my friends and family are getting a tad annoyed with me. That's the downfall to blogging - people want to you keep it current! :rolleyes:

[Veronica]

Ditto, almost exactly. Of course, I haven't been blogging in months, so my friends and family are getting a tad annoyed with me. That's the downfall to blogging - people want to you keep it current! :rolleyes:


Yes, yes we do! :D

Seriously, I'm just fascinated by all that you do for yourselves. Growing so much of your own food and putting it away to use throughout the year. It's like a modern day Little House book. And I like the goats.:p I'd be happy if you just posted your pics here.

Veronica

[GLC1968]

Yes, yes we do! :D

Seriously, I'm just fascinated by all that you do for yourselves. Growing so much of your own food and putting it away to use throughout the year. It's like a modern day Little House book. And I like the goats.:p I'd be happy if you just posted your pics here.

Veronica

We are harvesting our first full scale batch of honey this weekend. I promise to take photos and share them either here or on my blog.

You are probably the least annoying of my readers, by the way. My mother wins the prize for the most aggravating! ;)

[Veronica]

We are harvesting our first full scale batch of honey this weekend. I promise to take photos and share them either here or on my blog.

You are probably the least annoying of my readers, by the way. My mother wins the prize for the most aggravating! ;)

Cool!

But I guess I'll have to work at being more annoying. :D

Our blog is for friends and family. My hand written journal is for the truly private stuff. I tend to put more of my tri training angst into my thread here "How Hard Can It Be?" If I put too much into the blog, family begins to worry. They don't get that sometimes suffering is part of training. :D And hearing back from fellow "sufferers" helps.

Veronica

[shootingstar]

My family and friends read my blog (hopefully!). I make it a point to never post anything publicly on the internet that I wouldn't say to someone in real life. That stuff can come back to haunt you!

This is a good rule of thumb that I use too.
I know some of my friends and family prefer to read my personal blog (cyclewrite) vs. the business blog, www.thirdwavecyclingblog.wordpress.com that I administer. But I also write for the biz blog too.

It cuts down for me later time/effort in describing certain beautiful/interesting stuff to them. Besides I might forget all the wonderful stuff I saw/experienced later on. Writing style is not aimed specifically for family/friends but for anyone else since the 2 blogs are interlinked.

No, people in my family / friends don't FB much/at all. They just get into Internet surfing if they are lucky to find time.

[Fredwina]

My mother does read mine.
I'll agree with the other poster - don't publish anything you're don't want the whole world to see. One of my FB friends is a Tech Recruiter, and his posts are usually on Social media and Careers. He's published some real hum-dinger from Real life.

[shootingstar]

Does anyone here have a blog that is sort of more work-related?

I know that Chile Pepper's ties in with her family's winery biz and mimi's for her paintings....

I will be creating a 3rd blog ---for a major event. So have been looking at specific features, etc.

Human imagination and how people visualize is just interesting!

[Crankin]

Am I the only weird one here who thinks that no one would be particularly interested in the day to day stuff that goes on in my life?
My friends already humor me when I talk about my rides and I am pretty sure there is nothing else in my life that is that extraordinary in that people would want to read about it. I like to write, but I don't really have the urge to write about the mundane day to day of my life. And I can't write about my work...
No one in my family is on FB, except one son. The other one thinks national security will be breached if he goes on there, since he works in military intelligence.
I definitely would not want my family and friends to read about all that I am thinking or doing. It's easier to just talk about those evil thoughts with DH or close friends :).

[PamNY]

Crankin, no, you aren't the only one. Like you, I have friends who humor me when I talk about biking. It would be too much to ask them to read about it.

Some "everyday" blogs are interesting; a few people truly have a gift for communicating. I can see blogging for people with a large circle of friends or a large family. Neither applies to me.

I'm really in a quandary about Facebook. I do compartmentalize my life and friends, especially online friends. For whatever reason a lot of the friends I've made in dog internet groups are very conservative -- I don't want them to know what I think about a lot of things. But, Facebook is getting more and more "necessary" for dog rescue and a few other things.

ETA: I wonder about putting family things online. Not really judging it, because I'm an unusually private person. But some things I have seen make me question the wisdom of blithely chatting away about children, etc.

[Crankin]

Yep, I have a small family, and I no longer speak to any of them, except my dad and brother. My dad has a computer, but can't really handle the mouse well, so if I email him pictures, I have to call him to tell him to go look! And, if you can believe it, my 46 year old brother does not have a computer (although he is computer literate). I have one friend here who posts on FB constantly and I do make plans with her through the FB instant messaging or email quite a bit. But the others, no... one is on constantly with whatever and the rest don't FB. I do keep up with one of my friends in AZ that way, and vicariously through her kids. A few of my younger acquaintances from grad school have "friended" me, and that's fine. But, I hardly ever post.
I compartmentalize my life a lot. That's how I stay sane! Plus, the only online friends I have are right here, on TE. Don't have time to handle any more than that.

[shootingstar]

Am I the only weird one here who thinks that no one would be particularly interested in the day to day stuff that goes on in my life?
My friends already humor me when I talk about my rides and I am pretty sure there is nothing else in my life that is that extraordinary in that people would want to read about it. I like to write, but I don't really have the urge to write about the mundane day to day of my life.

This is why it took me a long time to even get myself to start up any blog: I had no interest in jotting down my daily stuff. Heck , I gave up a daily written journal because it was ..becoming dull to myself. Repetitive writing style, same ol' details. Even I was losing interest in myself. :p

So when I did figure out my focus and write more thematically. It made more sense and taps into a better writing style from myself.

For trips, I now take way too many photos. Digital method does create certain problems. :) So having a blog with occasional bits on travel highlights really forces me to be selective and not bore family, friends much (hopefully).

I know this sounds strange, but when I get truly sick/weak in the distant future, I have something still, for others who care about me to know of my best thoughts in writing and my decent visuals in photos. My family knows me. I used to write poetry and enter creative writing contests as a kid. And the art interest is still lying around latent, which is why I write/reflect on art in blog occasionally if I'm not actually doing art at this time. (Hmmmm. Yea that stash of beautiful acrylic paint tubes, brand new canvasses piled up in the closet.)

Blogging for TE members by are seriously injured and laid up in bed for awhile: think about doing this

[GLC1968]

Am I the only weird one here who thinks that no one would be particularly interested in the day to day stuff that goes on in my life?
My friends already humor me when I talk about my rides and I am pretty sure there is nothing else in my life that is that extraordinary in that people would want to read about it. I like to write, but I don't really have the urge to write about the mundane day to day of my life.

I felt this way when I started and I kept my blog private. I was really just writing to document our transition from a DINK couple to a sustainable farming one. When I found myself telling people all the same stories I'd already written about, I just started sharing the blog address. Then it blossomed. (and then it died...but that's a whole 'nother topic)

To be fair though, I didn't blog about typical mundane day to day stuff. I blogged about things that I thought others might find interesting or unusual. I'd never have done a post about surfing the internet, grocery shopping or doing laundry (unless perhaps I was doing my laundry on a washboard or in a stream or something! :p).

[PamNY]

GLC, I think sustainable farming is fascinating. I can see how your blog would be of great interest. A blog about me going to Trader Joe's would not have the same appeal.

We put up a web page about a single aspect of evacuating after 9/11 and (duh) it went pretty viral, which I never even thought of. My only objective was reaching the dozens of people who offered help. Nothing bad came of it, but it made me forever wary.