Comments on Bloggers Reveal ALL At Their Peril

Go to Blog-Page - Add a comment - Go to Bloggers Reveal ALL At Their Peril

That's fine you have to do what is right for you

posted by the-loanlady on January 13, 2005 at 11:27 AM | link to this | reply

AbeLincoln

It is a small round fishbowl

posted by beachbelle on January 13, 2005 at 10:15 AM | link to this | reply

McNab

The biggy for newspaper writers is that if professionally you are trying to provide balanced coverage but then your opinions are plastered all over some blog it can create a conflict

posted by beachbelle on January 13, 2005 at 10:14 AM | link to this | reply

Billy

Yes even though your Iraq blog did not seem too compromising I can see the awkwardness for your CO - sometimes it's best not to know. Occasionally things are written which are meant to get at me. Once I spot that happening I just step away

posted by beachbelle on January 13, 2005 at 10:12 AM | link to this | reply

You sound very wise in keeping a tight lip... and I heard about the stewardess... I don't think some people understand the fishbowl aspect of the internet and blogging all over tarnation...

posted by cmoe on January 13, 2005 at 10:11 AM | link to this | reply

Beachbelle - by those standards I have made it - fired from the Saturn Corp

in 1998.  I agree about blogging being hazardous.  My CO wouldn't read my Iraq blog b/c some stuff I said put him in an integrity compromising position (nothing bad against him).  Its easier to turn and not see than read and try to ignore.

posted by FreeManWalking on January 13, 2005 at 10:07 AM | link to this | reply

beachbelle

I thought everybody got fired at least once!   You were and still are doing the correct thing by not divulging too many personal details.  If your articles were being published in a newspaper you'd have to be very circumspect or risk being fired.  There is no need for any reader of any writer to know too much about them.  Jemmie 211's comment shocked the hell out of me so I googled my own name.  I'm not there, thank goodness, although my daughter and wife are. 

posted by johnmacnab on January 13, 2005 at 6:16 AM | link to this | reply

Well, Belle

Mine is only obvious.  Try doing an internet search (on Google, of course) of "Jemmie211."  I guaran-damn-tee you all the results will be me!  I'm sure that's how Daddy found me once I gave him an email of mine that included Jemmie211 in it.

posted by Jemmie211 on January 13, 2005 at 1:34 AM | link to this | reply

word.smith

Yes, some things are not worth squandering

posted by beachbelle on January 13, 2005 at 1:33 AM | link to this | reply

Telynor

Yes I can see the advantages and disadvantages of your situation.

When I was ill I had people suggesting I seek retirement on ill health but in my case that would have been to throw back in the face of the doctors all the good care they had been able to give me.

posted by beachbelle on January 13, 2005 at 1:32 AM | link to this | reply

Wow Jemmie

If someone found me without me telling I would be surprised too. I have never told anyone I know about my blogging ID

posted by beachbelle on January 13, 2005 at 1:30 AM | link to this | reply

I used to talk about my job at Nursing.

When I was with the UHM School of Nursing, I'd write about it.  Let's face it, I hated my boss there.  She was the ultimate BITCH!  Thank goodness she didn't know the least little thing about computers and the internet!

But for me, I tend to use Blogit as an outlet.  I like to talk about things here.  And I tend not to tell anyone about my writing here.  In fact, I don't think I ever told my own dad!  I think he actually found this site on his own!  hehe  Which surprised the heck outta me!

posted by Jemmie211 on January 12, 2005 at 11:27 PM | link to this | reply

I was sacked from a job, and it was either the worse or the best thing that ever happened to me -- soon afterwards the goverment finally realized that yes, I was disabled. But I can perfectly understand your reticence in getting too personal. And that's perfectly right to do. And smart.

posted by telynor on January 12, 2005 at 9:59 PM | link to this | reply

BB, sometimes better safe than sorry.

 I'd have done the same as you did if I worked for a paper.

posted by word.smith on January 12, 2005 at 6:05 PM | link to this | reply

Cassandra

If we tell all here we have nowhere to go, do we?

posted by beachbelle on January 12, 2005 at 4:28 PM | link to this | reply

Justsouno

I think that we can expect to get what we give

posted by beachbelle on January 12, 2005 at 4:27 PM | link to this | reply

MerryAnne

I think when people are too curious, the alarm bells should ring

posted by beachbelle on January 12, 2005 at 4:26 PM | link to this | reply

Klara

some prices are too high

posted by beachbelle on January 12, 2005 at 3:31 PM | link to this | reply

Ginnieb

If I dropped anonymity I would be even more dull..I can't risk that

posted by beachbelle on January 12, 2005 at 3:30 PM | link to this | reply

BB...

I've heard of those cases as well. I keep my workplace and truly some personal facts to myself. It's said that discretion is the better part of valor... wonder if that is true?

posted by RedHeadedGypsy on January 12, 2005 at 3:24 PM | link to this | reply

BeachBelle

Well luv, I've made it then been sacked a few times.

I do understand your discretion, as Shakespeare said: " "The better part of valour is discretion."

posted by WileyJohn on January 12, 2005 at 3:21 PM | link to this | reply

Belle

Nice post informative. I am in a mute position. I have nothing to gain and nothing to lose. The bashing I take sometimes for my faith is the worst that happens to me. I do understand where all of you are coming from. I don't have reason to fear anything now. 
 

posted by Justi on January 12, 2005 at 2:45 PM | link to this | reply

I always try not to name names or give away too much about me. I don't think I would be sacked, but I just like to keep some things private.

posted by Ca88andra on January 12, 2005 at 2:19 PM | link to this | reply

Depends on the reason for the "sacking" Beach.

I would not consider Blogit worth taking any chances at all. If I thought for one minute it would lose money or a job for me, I would hit "cancel" immediately. You're doing the right thing.

posted by KlaraRoberts on January 12, 2005 at 2:10 PM | link to this | reply

Don't do it Beach!

Anonymity is the way to be!

posted by ginnieb on January 12, 2005 at 2:05 PM | link to this | reply

then I 've made it big time...

I've been sacked twice...

I don't honestly think that we need to tell all. I certainly haven't so Iwouldn't expect you to.

posted by MerryAnne on January 12, 2005 at 1:57 PM | link to this | reply