Be careful...

The Internet, everyone’s favourite medium. With it comes a lot of trust and responsibility. Especially with Web 2, in particular, blogging! People (well me at least) are turning to blogs as a way to extract thoughts and feeling, opinions and views about daily life in order to rationalise them in way that we can then understand, when we read it back. Its almost, become our “Dear Diary”. Our diaries have always being full of personal stories, memorable thoughts and things we would never talk about to others out of shear embarrassment or fear that the news of “Mary’s secret love for John”, hunts its way through the whispers of society back to John and then becomes the slag of the week. At least with a diary, only you (and your little brother or sister who gets a kick out of nicking it for an afternoon giggle) get to read it. If Ann Frank had being using blogs she would have being caught at lot quicker by the Germans I give you that!

With out question I have secrets, plenty of secrets. I have lived a long life so far where I have sat back and kept a lot of things to myself and I intend to keep them to myself in order to prevent people from getting hurt or over reacting to something simple. Other secrets I plan to keep locked up in a cell, thicker than the walls around Chernobyl, padded with bubble wrap (just for amusement!). I do this with the hope that a person will live on in peace and enjoy their life, maybe come to some conclusions in my favour when the time is right.

Now if I had wrote the above true statement in my diary no one would ever read it. Now that it’s in on the Internet, anyone in my friends list or even not in the list can read it. That’s why I made it vague-ish!!!! If I had being less vague, and more informant about what I’m rambling on about, a whole world of trouble will with out a doubt open up.

I erg people to be sure what they have wrote in their blog, email or comment and to be aware that when you click send/post, you are opening up responsibility for yourself… Be careful, and remember, everyone is watching you….