Dorothea gave a workshop on how to post. The possibility of self-disclosure horrified one of the participants.
This, at the same time that a lot of criticism of social-networking software centers around the various circles of acquaintanceship we all have, and how said circles mostly don’t know about each other, and how each of us shows different faces to our various circles, and how the SNSes don’t allow us to do that.I recognize the problem, and I see how it applies to blogging, though I think the workshop attendee thought I was clueless. I think she thought I was in for all kinds of trouble when Someone Who Shouldn’t finds and reads CavLec. And who knows? Maybe I am.
I think that Dorothea is on the right track. Secrecy or having multiple "faces" or personalities for different settings just doesn't seem ethically correct to me.
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