Please excuse my (relative) absence from the blogosphere - I've been putting 20 hour days at work, and that makes me a bit grumpy. Not at all inclined to take pictures of my cookies, because I just want to eat the darned things. All of them. Immediately.
So instead I'll leave you with a placeholder for my BBD and SHF entries - a question placeholder. Because when you're on the 18th hour out at the same machine, these are the things you think of:
Do you tell your non-bloggie friends about your blog? If so, how?
Various college friends have been happening upon my blog and emailing or IMing me saying they've found it. Truly, it sort of weirds me out, but in a good way. I think.
Your thoughts?
Friday, February 20, 2009
NFR: Blog Anonymity
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I surely tell them,. It's nice hearing them commenting on my cakes. As long as they re nice comments :)
I find it hard to just blab it out ("look at me, look at me") so when it's a good moment then...Well sometimes... depends on the persons I guess. Some know but don't bother to look a second time. I wish they would all get enthousiastic about it, but hey that won't happen as I won't get enthousiastic about some of the things they do ;-)
I don't. I find it off-putting if a friend knows about it but has never taken a look at it.
Hope you get some cookie time soon!
No! It's my secret. No one knows except for my mom and she doesn't even know the link. It makes me feel weird to know someone's reading something I wrote. Everyone just asks me why I take a million pictures of everything I make, which they all find kind of weird. I just say there's only enough time to make so many recipes and I would like to remember all of them...haha
My Hubby tells a lot of people about it. He usually is bringing my baked goods to work and advertises it. I personally haven't told anyone about it except my family. I don't want to get my hopes up that people will read and then they don't... Every once and I while I do get an email or call saying that someone thought that was me...
I stopped telling people because I don't think they were looking at it (and probably think I'm weird blogging about anything, much less food). One friend found it and was reading it but never told me. My mom reads it and she "put in an order" for some World Peace Cookies, so that was cool!
I know its kind of strange, but I have never told my friends/family about it. I prefer that they didn't know what goodies were coming to them next or that their reviews are included in posts!
My best friend knows about it but when she asks for the URL I tell her she can't have it. :P
I get a lot of hits from my city and the last city I lived in and I can't help but think those people know me and it really freaks me out.
You busy bee, you. And if it has to be so, blogging should always take a back seat to the actual baking and cooking - so I'm glad to hear your cookie production is still afloat.
I don't really tell people about Brown Interior - what with the lack of writing style and mediocre photography, it functions more as a TWD/other blog events diary. Seems like me and all your commenters are a bunch of secret sallys.
Don't work too hard!
I tell people about it, I recently did a post from my cake class so I told them the name, but I'm ever so sheepish about it normally.
My husband's colleague seems to read it religiously and is always asking him about what I made, which is kind of scary!
I have a link to my blog on my facebook profile. I also occasionally email my mom, sister, and/or friends to tell them to check it out. Sometimes when someone at work asks for a recipe and I have the link or actual recipe on my blog, I email them the link.
None of them ever comment on my blog though.
I've only told told two people, M and a colleague at work. M looked at it once (if he checks it regularly, he never comments!) and when my work friend asked for the link, I got embarrassed that I even mentioned it (kind of the "look at me" that Lien mentioned). I'm more afraid of getting unobjective comments from people who know and love me, when all I really want are the kind and helpful comments I get from fellow bloggers. Thanks for asking the question. I've often pondered why I don't tell people I do this. It's not like it's a secret destructive behavior!
After much thought I did tell people. This was hard when thinking about telling people with whom I work. I shared it with a lot of the people who I know like to cook and gave them occasional e-mail reminders of a post they might find interesting. Now I have some friends and colleagues who faithfully check it out and those who don't, well, they don't, and I'm not at all offended.
I no longer send out e-mail reminders (I only did that a few times) because I didn't want to be obnoxious.
The hardest part for me was how much of my personal life do I share? It turns out some of the parents of my students have found out I have a blog. It's not as if I'm sharing scandalous bits of my life, but I do like to keep the line between the professional and personal firmly drawn. Knowing there are parents and even students reading, I find myself editing myself and I hate it. Do I share the fact that I drank a beer while grazing at the open refrigerator? Do I share anything remotely resembling romantic attachments? I've been tempted to start a completely new blog and start over again just so I can stop filtering everything I write. Not that I am foul-mouthed and living a tawdry life, but I would like to be myself...
I don't usually, but I have in the past, and if they're not into food, they end up not being too interested in it.
Hope you manage to get some decent rest from work soon!
I do. I don't talk about it w/people but if it comes up in conversation I will tell them. Now that I am on Facebook, a lot of people know from my FB page. I don't mind...the more the merrier :) After all, it's a food blog, not a personal one that would be more like a "diary"
I don't exactly advertise it, but I don't keep it a secret either.
When I started blogging, I didn't tell anyone, then as I went along, I told a few people, then a few more, and they told some people about it. Now caution has gone to the wind, and quite a few people in blogland know my real name and what I look like - but heck, I am enjoying it now.
GMTA. I have this question in my queue to ask on my blog too. To be honest my IRL friends and family know I have a blog but I don't push it that much so non of them really know the URL or visit. Heck my husband knows about it but he rarely visits himself. But most of them aren't internet addicts like me. I guess part of me likes to keep things separate in my life anyways. Blog life, work life, family, friend life... I have no idea why though.
/Clara
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