I keep a journal, such as it is, as a private blog. I maintain this blog site simply as a place to record thoughts, be they sensible or not. I look back at it once in a while, primarily to remind myself that it is a good idea not to share everything one thinks with everyone one knows. Or doesn't know.
It seems to me as I surf through the interwebs, as I read newspapers, and as I listen to the radio or television, that there are entirely too many people with too much to say which is unfiltered and unthought. I suspect I have been guilty of same. But I do try to
confine much of the drivel that seeps through my mind to the private blog, or better yet, to the dustbin. When I choose to post something on String Too Short to Tie, it is my hope, while I know I was entertained by it, that if someone else should happen upon it, they, too, will be amused or enlightened.So, in summary, think twice before posting once.
I do wish I could learn to apply that rule to conversations with BBBH!
This one showed up after I had put this post to bed, so I woke it up to insert this addendum.
9 comments:
It's easy to forget that on Facebook, a missive you issue into the ether is seen by people very real to you.
I used to liken posting info on the Internet to standing on a streetcorner in midtown Manhattan and shouting out all of your deepest secrets: people would hear, but nobody would care.
Facebook, in contrast, is a small town. You would never shout your deepest secrets from any small-town streetcorner, at any rate not if you wanted to continue to live there.
I can't imagine anyone, with any sense, would disagree. But then that's the problem, isn't it? Good sense (common sense?) has gone the way of the horse and buggy.
Me too.
Jim, good analogy. The only flaw is that in the small town everyone knows your secrets anyway. *sigh*
Grace, too right you are. Good sense these days is not at all common.
Chuck, &)
A huge and hearty AMEN!
Shelly, yes, thank you; and now that I could but practice what I preach.
Maybe Facebook should be renamed Dirty Laundry or My Ugly Life.
There have been times when I've posted in the evening only to wake up and delete before the post has aired. I like that there is a timer on the blog, whereas FB is immediate. Gotta be really careful on FB.
Vee, it sometimes looks as though that is what it has turned into. Egocentrism reigns.
Lin, one of the reasons I put posts in queue ahead of time. Chances to look them over, think them over. I, too, have gotten up in the night to stop something that would go up at four ayem. Only once or twice, though. ;-)
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