Just in case the Jakob/Julia debacle wasn’t enough to convince you that blogging and relationships should never, ever mix, here’s another horror story straight from the blogosphere: Joshua David Stein, formerly of Gawker, recently penned a piece for Page Six Magazine detailing the ins and outs of his relationship with Emily Gould, also formerly of Gawker, who had a habit oversharing about their relationship on the Internet.
Apparently, the best way to get back at someone who blogs about your relationship is to write a magazine article airing your dirty laundry even further. Wait — how’s that work?
Sex bloggers take a lot of flack for not respecting the privacy of the people they post about. But if there’s anything to be learned from the Gould/Stein affair, maybe it’s that bloggers, period, know no boundaries.
Oh, and that posting about your relationship in a magazine is no better than posting about it online. Just sayin’.
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Sex bloggers? Bloggers? naaah, its just humans.
Keeping it secret or talking about it in a blog; either way it implies one is trying to force its will over the other. That one feels it has more rights, knows better, or is more entitled to do something that might affect someone who should, technically, mean something to them.
Afterwards its just vendetta and hmm whats the english for it, secondary benefits (?), making it look like you were always right, you are actually a poor victim, free advertisement, etc.
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February 12th, 2008 at 11:06 amI don’t think dating a blogger is the major problem here, I think first the larger issue is dating a co-worker who happens to be a blogger.
Trust me on this one, I know.
February 12th, 2008 at 11:14 amOh, never, ever, ever date your co-workers!
I have had a few women hurt me, deeply. With the passage of time, and my growth as a human being, I have been able to see their side of it. This all happened in my pre-blogger days. I fear, that I may have written some rather untoward and unkind things about these ladies that would have been accessible to the whole world, had I had the medium.
On the other hand, blogging is an iterative process. I would be able to look at what was written down a couple of days ago, and with a more level head, go… “ooh, now that was ugly of me. I should try to set the record straight.”
Like any human endeavor, blogging can be used for good and for ill. A blogger is who he or she is, and if you are thoughtful and kind, like you ought to be, any ways, you have nothing too bad to fear.
Because… if he or she lies, well… you can tell the truth.
February 12th, 2008 at 11:35 ambuu buuut coworkers are like, right there!
come on guuys
February 12th, 2008 at 4:37 pmMy wife blogs with enviable frequency and as a result, our relationship is occasionally put on display. I don’t mind it much, perhaps because her blog isn’t JUST about our marriage but more probably because we’ve agreed on certain boundaries. It also helps that her blog on http://i.ph lets her fine tune her privacy settings so she can choose exactly who gets to see which post, so if she really needs to rant about anything I did, she can make it so only her closest girlfriends can read it. I can live with that.
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