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[jamez_finch]

To all my faithful readers, I propose discussion and response. In doing so you will be helping with a project I have on the go. So reply with your answers, questions and arguments.

What is a blog? - be it in general, or in relation to yourself.

To help stimulate discussion I shall throw a few ideas into the mix. When writing a public blog does the

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[tdarien_shields]

I know for me at least blogging had some weird mental effects. I had a sort of complex (is that the right word...? I don't really know anything about psychology) built up that made me act kinda dumb. I thought of it as a private and public speech at the same time, with the benefits of both (when in reality it had the drawbacks of both!). That's confusing, let me explain...

When I blogged I always thought that I could say anything I wanted because it was my blog and I wasn't telling these things to other people or saying them to other people, I was just saying them, period. Like, say for instance, I thought that "Jimmy" was a dick. I'd write on my blog that Jimmy was a dick, and feel completely confident that if Jimmy read it, it was Jimmy's own fault for invading my private blog and reading it for himself and seeing that. After all, I didn't ask him to read it, did I? He brought it on himself, snooping, and so on and so on. I had thoughts like this, while at the same time I wanted everyone to know, Jimmy's a dick! I wanted all my

[jamez_finch]

Thanks for the reply. It's an interesting thought, although in retrospect would you have written those journals about "Jimmy" now? I think a lot of the stuff we wrote in LiveJournal when in high school (much of it we've come now to regret) is a result of teenage adultolescence. Y'know "hormones" and all that rubbish, but probably more importantly trying to find a sense of place within society. You, personally, may not agree, although it's the semi-conclusion I've come to on the definition of my personal blog. It seems I'm trying very hard to characterise myself with a persona online, more than I did in person. I suppose this is because it's easier to be "bold" or out spoken online than it is to be in person. That being said (and thus why the conclusion is semi) the stuff I talk about is always melodramatic and fraught with personal feeling - I've yet to decide if this is over the top or a true reflection of myself (ultimately I will never know unless I travel back in time and ask myself how I was truly feeling