Blogging In Silence
I often find these months to go exceedingly quickly. No sooner is Christmas over than I am racing towards summer exam time. So it’s with no surprise I find myself typing another blog on a threatening-to-rain Sunday evening.
I am often intrigued by the sheer number of anonymous blogs on the internet. Many people have a personal blog, and an anonymous one on the side. Anonymity allows for the freedom often not afforded by having friends and family connected to words. Freedom to criticise and analyze parts of their life that they cannot do to their name. I write anonymously, and uncensored - my real name is not really ‘Straight Talker’ (funnily enough).
And yet in my blogging I come across some people who I would love to know in real life. Their anonymity adds mystery, but their blog adds personality. I understand entirely the need for an alias; I am a closeted lesbian writing thoughts that would be shocking to friends and family if they were ever to read them. I am still upset to find I cannot know more of other people’s real lives.
So today I set up an email account, straighttalker05@hotmail.com to allow others who feel the same way to contact me. You never know, if I feel certain you aren’t my minister I may even give you my name.
In many ways to be anonymous is silly. My parents don’t actually know what a weblog is. My friends are hardly going to be trawling blogspot in search of my lesbian self. But it’s just easier just to be nobody for a little part of the day.
Posted by straighttalker05 @ 9:12 PM::
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6 Comments:
Mine is semi-anonymous. There are several people who read it and know exactly who I am. In fact, I'm well aware there's a trail or two that anyone truly bored could pick up and find out.
But I keep it more or less anonymous to the world at large for safety's sake. I have a hushmail account and it gets some very strange emails now and again! :) I'd really rather the types who object to a child being raised by a pagan bisexual single parent didn't have my real name.
Some of these types of people have caused me trouble in the past.
But I keep my email available because sometimes I get the loveliest of mails. Sometimes the most heartbreaking, when people decide to tell me their own stories. I guess it's easier to pour it all out to an anonymous sympathetic person.
Well, that was a whole lot of waffle as to why mine stays anonymous! Hope you enjoy your emails. :D
Being anonymous is crap at times.
I would love to meet some of my fellow bloggers for a big piss up somewhere.
They would pay for all the drink of course
Good luck with the emails, you never know I might send you one...anonymously :)
Another anonymous one here. In the earlier days I was a little less careful in my posting - I even posted a picture of my face! Not to mention some information that could very easily have led right back to me. Since then I've edited out pretty much everything that could identify me and now remain, hopefully, happily anonymous
Well, mine is kinda semi-anonymous. BUt people tend to find out. Because I started using it for photos and for my music, too.
So I *do* have an anonymous blog on the side. BUt I don't really write in it at the moment. I'm deeply considering reviving it though..
And you *can* be anonymuos and attend a blog meet..
You say about your friends being unlikely to read this blog - what if they did? What if they actally didnt even care that you were gay and it didnt change a thing?
If they did, I'd hope they would have the courage I don't, and tell me to my face that they know and don't care.
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