I should probably just write and publish something so that the whole concept seems less foreign. It helps that I had a couple of drinks and am currently consumed by an emotion that is more than just neutral.
I just realized that it is quite odd to write for an audience of one, maybe two. It seems like I should be addressing these people individually. Blogging under your real name feels very different from commenting anonymously on various internet postings, not that that is something I do often.
I recently came across the account of someone I know (knew, really) quite by accident. This person is anonymously commenting frequently on a social news website (Wikipedia told me this is what this site is called...I wouldn't have necessarily given it a name that was so...legitimate sounding). Once I realized that I knew who this was, I spent quite a while poring over their posts - some of which were quite intelligent, some which were quite funny and some which I would have been happier having not read. I wondered what this person would think if they knew I found them and they were no longer anonymous. And how my posts would change if I was anonymous.
Well, here I am, going the non-anonymous route with this blog. I'll behave myself to a certain extent. Because really, as most of us know by now, people in this day and age take the whole politically correct thing a bit too far. But perhaps that's for another post.
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