What are you? When you sit at your desk or open your lap top and start pounding those keys what are you doing? Is it business? Leisure? Boredom? What's your subject matter? Random entertainment? Poetry? Social activism? So many questions that can go towards such a simple thing that we do. We blog. Categorize it into any sub level you like but it's blogging. I do this because my mind races. I work with a minimum of 6 tags open, multiple program screens, downloads, media players, photo editing, etc......I've been aiming my mind's endless wave of activity online since before the new millennium started. In that 10+ yrs of expression and it's many evolutionary stages, I learned early that there is a responsibility that must be respected when u put things into the public. Be it your own business or that of others.
What is the line that you refuse to cross? What is a blog worthy post that you will never publish? Whats off limits? I ask these questions due to the following....
Evita and I were chatting last night about a blogger that decided to take it upon herself to air out the personal business of a current professional ball player after reading a alleged email from this ball players spurned former gay lover. Yes, gay.
The link to the blog is here. I'll give you the short version. Gay man has serious physical, emotional and financial relations with baller while he is in college just coming up. Baller gets big and maintains on again off again relations, eventually he steps away from Gay man and attempts to pay him off to end all attempts of contact with him. Gay man is hurt for a few yrs, emails blog host who then creates big public outing of the now NFL player.
I'm Assuming you've gone back(or will go back) to get the details from the blog by now, Evita and I (who know this blogger to a degree) went back and forth wondering how could a person put another individual they don't know on front street like that? Yes the actions of the Ball Player were far from nice but no crime was committed. It was basically a personal lovers dispute. You now affect family, relationships and professional business all involving people you don't know. And for what? A shot at coming up in the blog world?(Assuming that said Ball Players legal team doesn't get to you first). It's just wrong to me, not to mention the legion of followers that are co-signing.
Not just in this particular case but in general, where do you draw the line. Is there even a line? Or is everything and anything fair play? Does the fact that you're not employed/paid to blog or working under someone relieve you of all responsibility? Is the pursuit of that E-Fame the ultimate green light?
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Bloggers, Reporters, Sensationalists,.......
Posted by NightFall914 at 1:09 PM
Labels: Attention whorism, blogging, expression, interesting look, life lessons
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HOLY SHEIT!
Malicious.
I make everybody appear better than they actually are in my damn blogs and I still get heat---> smh @ me
Us bloggers have a big responsibility thats a huge lesson I've learnt as of late.
I wont even go on the link you provided...this is fukkery..ppl are abusing their blogging priviledge..and as much as the shit is for the most part free to set up..its a fucking priviledge...
is that the best you can do to attract readers? air somebody's homosexual repression bs drama?? c'mon son!!
If I see a blog like that from anyone on my blogroll I'm deleting their link..I dont tolerate that ish...some ppl need to learn how to create boundaries..BYE..I've typed too much!!
wow. that's umm...really effed up :/ as a blogger i don't feel like there's a line because for the most part i blog about myself and my life but if there ever were a situation to arise that involved someone other than me i wouldn't use their real name or plaster photos of them. you never know just how much of an impact something like that could have on a person's life. it's playing with fire.
We've been talking about this for a few days now.
I like what a post before me said...I agree. I talk about myself all the time.
In taking this to another level, I am damn near 70 pages into a memoir as well. Talking about yourself s one thing...but what she did defies laws of gravity in my book. It's that outlandish.
There were so many other options to go about this. Though many of her initial comment were co-signers, the more recent posts were not. They were people telling her probably everything she needed to hear.
On a whole other level...This woman was formally a porn actress. I am not saying this to blow up anyone's spot. It's a known fact and something she owns and would tell you herself if you asked. She does not hide this fact.
But, I think it may distort the thinking somewhere along the line. Just being you, individually, have no problem living your life as an open book, does not give you the right to force other's open.
I try to stay away from anything sad, emotional or pity seeking in my blog. I like to make people laugh and not at the expense of others...........unless a video of you falling appears on the internet!
I sometimes have these angry blogs, but the goal is STILL to make people laugh. I don't really put anyone's dirt out there ...mostly because I'm too self involved to talk about other people.
HOWEVER, commenting in other people's blog = all bets are off lol
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