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Tuesday, November 02, 2004
Public Blogging/Diary/Journal Wonder why online journals are considered journals or diaries when there is a connotation of privacy and confidentiality.... recording private thoughts of one's life, yet displaying them to the whole world without feeling intruded. Seems like the title of my post is a juxtaposition, or maybe paradox. Privacy and publicising it... exist together and at the same time. Contrast placed side by side. Weird. But it's like that i guess... So a journal, being considered as something private, personal, is not so private after all. Then what is it? Blogging is a way to keep oneself updated about friends' lives and also record one's most thoughts, inspirations, aspirations, and serves as an outlet to vent your most frustrating moments. Blogging can be therapeutic to a certain extent. But what's the point in blogging, or keeping a journal, if you know the whole point is to be able to record the most private thoughts and ideas, yet knowing at the same time... they're gonna be displayed to the public?! Kinda miss the whole idea of keeping a journal right...?! But anyway if it's a journal... why care about what people has to say or how much they'll know about you... cos' it's your journal anyway... you have all the freedom and right in the world to blog your innermost feelings, and most importantly, you gotta be truthful to yourself in your journal.. just cos' you know the public may read your blog so you may deliberately jot down the un-truth just to make your public journal look nicer on you. Then you miss the whole essence of writing diaries, journals, blogs. Your blog shows your individuality and your sense of identity. Whatever. Posted at 2:54 AM |
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