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How real is blogging?
I am aware of some friction going on in blog-land about identity. Apparently some bloggers get accused from time to time of not being real people. These blogs are ‘false fronts’ i.e. the writer of the blog and what they report is made up. I’ve heard this enough to sense if may be true. Last year when Scott-O-Rama announced he was a ‘she’ hiding behind the made up persona of “Scott” I believed it for a short while - until I realized the he wrote it on April Fool’s Day.
Building a bogus blog isn’t as intriguing to me as how much truth really goes into anyone’s blog.
Some of the blogs I read are authored by people uncomfortable disclosing too much, as they are in the closet to some degree.Some bloggers have been very hurt by revealing too much about themselves - especially about work related matters. So they limit their blogs limited to certain topics.
It makes me reflect upon what I do and do not put into my own blog. There are a few things about me I won’t discuss here. I suspect others do the same.
So if we hold back certain topics, how well do we know about each other?
I know some of you very well – maybe more than my ‘real life’ friends. I suspect I know some only as carefully chosen Personas.
And maybe a few are ‘made up’?
It is curious.
