Interesting thoughts tonight by Mindy and Jay about what they think about restricting or crafting their blogging. What topics are appropriate? What words are inappropriate? Etc. (I realize Mindy’s situation is different but I thought it sort related a bit in that it probably feels worse for her because she tends more towards the “journal” side vs the “story” side? Dunno. Maybe she’ll comment!)

And so I wanted to ask you Gentle Readers… Do you view blogs more like a “story” that is meant to be crafted… details being sculpted and presented for the good of the story of the life? Or do you view blogging more like a journal? Raw, real, unmeasured, uncompartmentalized? Do you risk being “unpopular” in your blog if you have a view that you know isn’t going to be accepted by your readers? Or do you stay pretty much middle of the road to appeal to a wide audience?

I think I tend to fall on the more crafted side. I tend to be a more crafted person simply by nature. I think I have given up the whole notion that I can be “one person for everyone”. I simply can’t. So I compartmentalize my life – including my blogging. I am more moderate (or try to be?) then I really am. I “tone down” my extremes. My extremes are only exciting to me. I think many of my extremes would turn most people off. Thus.. I only share them with other extremists. (ie. I don’t talk about weight loss surgery a lot here because it’s only a small segment of my readership. I don’t talk about religion or politics much because those are also very polarizing topics.) There are only a few people in my life who know and see all the compartments and can tolerate me at the extremes and accept me unconditionally. I think if I was completely anonymous in my blogging… I would feel more comfortable sharing my extremes.

And then of course, I’ve also thought about crafting an anonymous blog where I create the ultimate story…. Just for fun under the pretense that it’s real…… I’d play in the “extremes” only to make it interesting.

But then I decided that I needed a life and that would be too much work. I barely have time to keep up with my own blog.

Anyway…what about you other bloggers out there? Are you more a “crafting your blog” type person or a “raw uncensored blog” type person?

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