I just read this cover story about former Gawker blogger Emily Gould in the NY times Sunday magazine and was totally engrossed.
She does a pretty thorough analysis of blogging culture & it made me think about how in this age of Facebook & Xanga so many of us want others to know the details of our personal lives but at the same time we still want our privacy.
When I asked Sol to start up this “He Says She Says” blog again, I was torn b/w wanting people to read it and at the same time not wanting anyone to “judge.”
My new resolution is to make this blog not about trivial things that strangers wouldn’t care to know about our life, but to write something that is at least thought-provoking for a moment or so…
I was telling Sol, blogging kind of is like reality TV, in that you can’t stop watching it b/c it’s ordinary people having their 15 minutes of fame and you relate to them, but it’s also that voyeur thing going on where they are ordinary people whose lives you kind of want to have.
I was also worried that if I started blogging about things that I was really thinking about rather than “this is what we did this weekend doesn’t it sound so fun” (kind of what xanga is like), then people might think I was sort of pretentious… but oh well, it’s time to lay aside those fears and just start writing something meaningful…
