Sharing Yourself Online: Privacy while Blogging
I just wrote a new article about privacy while blogging, which is something everyone (especially kids and teens) should consider when blogging:
As blogging has become mainstream and students from middle-school on up through college and graduate school have taken to it as quickly as wildfire, some bloggers are getting caught up in privacy concerns. Bloggers tend to think, “Write about it now, worry about it later,” believing the catharsis of writing is more important than the responsibility of privacy.
Since so many bloggers are actually diarists, writing in a free-association style that is cathartic, this is not unexpected. In fact, such an exercise is likely beneficial to the writer and helps them socialize in our connected society (and their very connected peer group). But writers need to understand the consequences of such writing up front, and edit as they go (or go back later to edit accordingly).
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“Sharing Yourself Online: Privacy while Blogging”
Pretty good article overall. But “private” blog. Get real.
If it’s online it cannot, by definition, be private. So, although it’s a nice concept, I’d like to know if any “private” blogs exist? Can you spell Google?
That’s absolutely not true. Trust me, millions of folks transact private business online every day (worth hundreds of millions of dollars), and it is kept private. So the ability to keep information and content private is readily available. Google and other search engines are stopped by one simple line in one simple file.
The issue is that most people who start blogging aren’t even aware it’s an option. You find about some random blogging service from a friend, you signup, and boom, before you know, you’ve written a few dozen entries before even thinking about such things…
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