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This whole web-logging thing, at times, can be a little voyeuristically heady.  It's very neat to get part way into the psyche of someone you've never met and don't know other than what they choose to reveal in this sort of public space.  No one is required to tell the truth, so the verity of any information must be sussed out for oneself.  If one is so inclined.

And then from the near side of the table, how much do I want to reveal of my own life?  There's the obvious caveat not to give out the sort of personal information that could lead a crack international assassination team to my front door-step to extract the pound of flesh that been sought since that incident in Columbia back in Odd Two.  (You'll never get me alive, you bastages!!)

It's weird that I know some personal information about near total strangers that is on par with some of that shared between me and my closest friends.  (My wife is still the only one that has the real dirt on me; and I intend for it to stay that way.)

Perhaps this is now the new medium for people to divulge that which does not come so easily in idle conversation.  Will blogging become the poor man's psychiatrist?  (I'll have to make my own Rorschach inkblots if that's the case.)  What is said can be reviewed, edited, sculpted and parsed down to what is acceptably revealed.  Conversation has the inherent danger of having something slip unintentionally; and that can never be taken back.   I'm rather fond of this medium for many reasons, one of which being that I'm much more eloquent, relatively, in the written word than the spoken.

All that being said, I'll reveal here that I snickered when I wrote 'assassination' because it starts with 'ass'.  Twice.  I'm so bloody mature.

Comments

[Tina]

Hey, Simon.... Interesting entry. I find it tough to balance sometimes. I want my writing to be honest, but then, there is the need for some privacy and discretion. What to reveal, and what to keep to myself ? I think about this almost every time I begin to post something ..... Tina

[Simon]

The same thought process goes for me, Tina. I pretty much know what I want to say, it's just how much of it do I want to put 'out there'?