If you are writing in a public blog, once that writing is indexed by search engines, your thoughts may be cached forever. The another problem is pseudonyms don not mean you are anonymous. If you don not use different pseudonyms for different situations or purposes online, you are likely to make your identity fairly easy to discover.
There is a large Internet computer company points out that privacy is dead, get over it. For absolute privacy, say nothing online. Privacy is as much a state of mind as it a set of techniques or actions you can take.
In my opinion, the privacy of blog has been an issue with me too. I study in overseas and also have a personal blog that i use to keep friends at home up to date with what's happening in my part of the world. My name is on that blog, and even though i don't publish it, content can still be found by using blog search tools if you try hard enough.
If i was to use my real name in the blog, people could trace my personal blog quite easily, and then they would know quite a lot about me. I could use a pseudonym in the blog, but the down side is that if it gets successful, i'm then not really publishing as myself am I ??
Anyway, i think blogging is the way for fun and interesting. But if you want to get the really privacy in blog, i just can say that as one Internet company "privacy is dead".
Reference:
http:// psychventral.com/blogs/privacy.htm
It is true that we all need to be responsible about how we communicate, BUT we can’t be accountable for how every person who reads our work interprets it and acts on it - that is each and every person’s own responsibility.
ReplyDeleteI think it’s always good practice to try and see your words from another’s point of view, but one of the most cherished things about blogging is that you are free to put your own point of view across. When you second guess your writing too much, it can result in bland middle of the road work that is lifeless and says nothing.
reading your blog :D
ReplyDeleteabout privacy, same as nicole, eh? hahahha x)
i also keep everything private, my friendster and facebook (well, the latter is not really private though =.=). Privacy is an important issue i think, because the information you have should not be accessed by strangers.
You know, in indonesia, a common case for people to be hypnotised and then their information is squeezed out from them. these information is then used for applying credit cards (mostly, the application for credit card is approved ). so, other people use these victims information to have credit cards, they use these credit cards and in the end of the month, these poor victims see credit cards' bills under their name and of course get headache =.=
i love your quote that if you presenting yourself as anonymus then when you succeed ypu wont be recognised as who you are, that makes sense so much :). Yet, i think those public figure never present themselves as anonymous from the first place, they are all crazy for publications. So, there's no way to be famous if you hide yourself under the status of "anonymous"