Dear Jeremy -
Read this. It may help you decide to tell us. Or never tell us. Either way, I’m happy – although I think I’d be happier in the former category. But stop being such a tease.
Love,
Shamus
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Sure, send me a ten page link when I teach in less than two hours.
Jeez. Interesting article. I’m no sneering gossip blogger, but Emily’s troubling story makes me want to disappear from the internet.
How vicious the semi-anonymity of the Internet can make people.
A friend sent this to me, and I wondered “oh jeez, is she telling me not to write about my personal life?” Then I read the whole thing, and thought “wow, blogging about your crazy immigrant childhood and the difficulty of work/life balance and how you celebrated passing your oral defense by getting the flu and a haircut” isn’t that bad. Still, I will probably blog less about the personal though, until I forget about this article.
In general though, best to stay away from excessively personal details about personal relationships. Sex blogging gets you lots of page views and attention, but not at all good. See, e.g., Jessica Cutler.
Here, here. I suggest an outright ban on sociologists discussing their sex lives (on blogs or otherwise).
Wow – interesting article. I actually tried a personal blog for a while – for friends and family. But it just felt weird knowing that anybody could read the information, and I kept censoring myself because of it. I finally stopped after about 6-8 months.
Scientific American has an article on blogging this month. Apparently blogging can be therapeutic.
Journaling by hand has been shown to be more therapeutic, I believe (although I don’t have a cite for that).
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