November 2, 2007

  • Are you what you blog?

    I'm sure others on Xanga have asked this before. But I stalked an old acquaintance err, came across a blog written by a female I knew years ago. Knew her in high school, met her again in college, haven't seen her in seven years. She's happily married now, which I knew before I went looking, so don't look at my words like that. You're making them feel all self-conscious and italicy with shame.

    Anyway...she wrote exactly how I thought she would. It was a very odd sensation. In that blog, the high points of her personality were there, the low points, etc. Seven years ago, when I met her again, I apparently understood her exactly. That doesn't necessarily mean I made the right decisions about my relationship with her, ha, but it does mean I had the right info.

    I'm kind of creeped out about it, to be honest. But I realize this is true of most real-life bloggers I know. People tend to be the same in their blogs as they are in real-life. I think I like that...but on the other hand, one would like to get something new from reading a blog, yes? I'm 95% sure that my writings on here would surprise real-life folks (although, bros, chime in on whether that's true or not). Anyway, just a quick filler post before I disappear for a week.

Comments (13)

  • I don't think most people are what they blog. They're part of themself....

    I really think some people do it on purpose. Others just don't write enough/often enough to truly reveal the self.

  • My blog is kind of an archives of what I think about all day long, and put into contemplated prose, so I think it's correlation to my appearance in real life is lacking.  So I would first stress it's difference before it's similarity to my actual daily interactions.  A very interesting question!

  • If I am what I blog, which blog counts?

  • This Xanga is mostly just hogwash these days. I mainly come here to read other people's blogs. I post new blogs mainly to prevent getting a billion comments on one blog.

  • I am what I blog, but not everyone is. I have a friend who is his alter-ego on Xanga. In real life he is very quiet and appears very serious. On Xanga, he is freakin' hilarious and has quite a cult following.

  • So if I don't blog, does that mean I am NOT? Maybe my posts should be more regular.

    this on consistent personality -- when I first met the amazing b/catechufem/theotica 13 (!) years ago, we were both real jerks, and not heading toward getting any better. the spiritual dope slap didn't come until a good 2 years later. but now looking back at the very things that attracted us to each other, they're all still there to varying degrees, and probably more true now than they were then. hmm.

  • Hmm. Hope not. Then I'm just a bunch of posts on the internet.

    And whiney. Which means I need to change my tune.

  • I don't know... I think I'm less focused in real life, my rants, which tend to come out sounding pretty organized on the blog, are more scattered and usually uttered rapidly and at a high pitch when I'm around my friends, entertaining them greatly.  And I live to entertain :)

    I hear that I "Chat" (MSN) exactly like I talk in real life.

  • Don't worry, you're just as pompous in real life.  j/k

  • hahaha "With November comes Sap" Hilarious tag!

    Am I what I blog? At times my thoughts flow through my fingers better than my mouth but I think "who I am" lines up w/ what I post though at times it is odd to think of sharing my thoughts with random strangers. I doubt I would walk up to someone say on the subway and say, "oh btw, I just made this skirt with cammo and flowers"

    have a wonderful week

  • I think that I am what I blog... partially. I usually try to keep my xanga pretty light-hearted and amusing, which is definitely a huge part of my personality - but is not who I am entirely. I'm actually deeper than I come across on xanga... I'd like to think so, anyway! I also tend to play up the whole "klutzy" angle... I sometimes portray myself as someone who is unable to move without injuring herself, but that isn't the case... most days. 

    RYC: I can think of a lot of adjectives to describe myself and my lack of blog-updating... cool definitely isn't one of them. Lazy, uninspired, uninteresting... those are more like it, haha 

  • Hmm. I don't know if my blog is really revelatory about me or if it's just another way to hide, to construct the facade I show to the world. I guess I would have to be on the outside to know.

  • We're all a bit of everything ... we hide what we don't want to be from our readers by not writing that part, but it doesn't make these sides of ourselves any less true. I suppose I'm trying to relate that there is so much more to each person than what they blog ... even what they show in the real world. We all have a way of hiding ourselves ... I think that what we blog is what we most want to project into the world, what we prefer to see out there, and it does give others set views of who we are, but ... yeah, we are what we blog to an extent, just like we are what we project in the RW. And some people just have less "sides" to them than others, like the woman you referred to.

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