Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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beladona Memorial Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
We all sift through the daily information flowing unrelenting and unremitting past us, picking and choosing where we devote our limited resources of time and attention. Additionally at work we have the Barracuda Web Filter that IT has put into place to protect the integrity of their servers, and limit the number of “unproductive” sites visited.
How do we decide what it is that we are going to share, what we are going to add to that data stream?
Obviously a lot of the decisions we make are predicated to whom we are revealing ourselves – what we choose to tell those who are intimately involved in the details of our life is different from what we say to our co-workers or classmates. What data is given to our doctor, lawyer or accountant is not the same information that we give to the merchant where we are buying a book. What we reveal to a close friend differs from what we are going to tell a person who “follows” us on Twitter or Facebook. We pick and choose, not only what we say but when we say it and to whom.
Unless we blog.
Blogging is pretty new. Journaling has a long and respected history, as does sharing what is written in autobiographical publications. Diaries have always been popular. In the M/s culture, where there is an enhanced need for transparency in the relationship, part of the standard operating procedure is for the “s” [sub or slave] to journal, preferably daily, so that the Master can read and deepen his/her understanding of the person who has submitted to them. In therapy, caging feelings in words that can be trapped on paper is cathartic. Some folks write long letters [well maybe emails in this day and age].
Is a blog a journal?
I have a feeling the answer is yes and no – like all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares. If I write something here, it is out there for anyone to read at any time – friends, enemies, scammers, interested acquaintances, prospective employers, potential customers, trolls, hobbits, dwarves, fans, bots, the list goes on and on. If I journal my story and journey, then I am revealing an awful lot about myself -- add to this the fact that the blogs I find most interesting often lay out a great deal of feeling, emotions and happenings. If I don’t journal, then I negate the value of the blog to me and potentially others -- and eventually I stop writing [whether or not anyone is actually reading which is a totally different issue]. So how much information is too much information?
Guess I have never been good at filters.
Or boundaries for that matter, but that is a whole different conversation….
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