more questions than answers
i keep wanting to write about friendship. or about my philosophy of life. or just about some of my observations of life.
which is right about when my head empties itself of all its contents.
i also want to write about privacy and blogs. maybe my blog gets only 20 or 30 hits a day. but the potential exists for the entire world to read it (overwhelmed servers notwithstanding). what sort of responsibility does that carry? what responsibility do i have to the people i write about?
what rules do we implicitly follow when we blog about other people? how do we tease out the line between public and private information in a post-blog world? where does the burden lay? is it the reader’s own responsibility for reading something unsettling or privacy-reducing? shouldn’t some (perhaps most) of the accountability reside in the blogger?
Of course the responsibility lies with the blogger! If you post your innermost thoughts on a virtual bulletin board, are those who pass it by obligated to shut their eyes? Bloggers should be mindful of the privacy of those who don’t want — nor did not ask to be — written about it in a public medium.
i agree with anonymous