It is surprising there are a number of people who still holds on to the notion you can be like this in real life and another personality on your blog. Unless your shrink tells you you are suffering from split personality, it just don’t hold for the rest of us. NO, you cannot be a separate entity from your blogging personality. Because the fact is, your blogging personality is an extension of yourself. Like it or not, there’s no way round this one.
Wait, I’ve met bloggers in person who has totally different personality from their blogs…
Blogging allows anonymity. Many times in real life people are restrained from expressing themselves because of various factors from shyness to the pressure to conform to what others expect of them. When blogging hits the scene, people can just let loose. Yes, there are nice bloggers who are just a bitch in person and vice versa. We have loud bloggers who are mousey in real life… Does that mean their blogging persona is totally cut off from them in real life?
Nay. The fact is, a blogger can have a different blogging persona but it is still an extension of the person. A shy person might find courage blogging under anonymity. The person can be loud and brash on his/her blog… but overwhelm with shyness in real life. There’s no contradiction there. You merely have a shy blogger who is merely dying to break out from his/her shell. I repeat again, a blogger can have a different blogging personality but that personality is very much an extension of the individual. Extension meant it’s still part of you.
So, want to know whom you really are? Go read your own blog postings.
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cannot be. My blog is a so matured me but in real life I am very mui mui face wan worr…:P
SHireen - You are then a matured mui mui face.. Live with it.
I’m a nutfudge with a lot of cats. I can live with that.
When I started blogging I was of the opinion that it would be cool to blog behind a mask. Don’t let people know my true self. Create a mysterious charactor. I taught it was cool. LOL.
I do hide away a lot of personal things when I blog cos my students are reading my blog, Hencs I cannot and never blog any personal matter, cannot blog about politics , cannot use foul languages and since most of my readers know me by person so I can never blog behind a mask……unless I start a new blog altogether but I don’t see any point in it.
Karen - I can definitely guess you are a cat person. lol I saw your kitty widget.. it’s so cute. lol
Costa - But how long can you keep the charade up without exposing your true thoughts in your postings?
I doubt..
Chris - I understand you need to keep something private. But the fact is, you are limiting your exposure because of circumstances, but nevertheless your blog still reflects you. Albeit, a censored version of you, right?
I am pretty much myself in my blogs
…because God makes me accountable for everything I do, including blogging.