Comments on: As The Internet Evolves – Anonymity Go Bye Bye

By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:22:13 +0000

Anne – Totally with you on this. My take on it is that some people can “overshare,” and other people probably ought to put a sock in it. I have an example of each in mind, but as you say about opinions, I prefer to keep such to myself.

Personally, I think it’s a fallacy that we’re supposed to be happy all the time. If that were true, we would not be unhappy. Unhappiness evolved for a reason!
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By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:52:18 +0000

I have a tendency to keep many of my opinions to myself. Guess I, scratch that, there is no guessing. I always think of the old saying, ‘Opinions are like assholes. Everybody’s got one’. Feel free to edit that if you want. But my opinion is just that and unless I do something with it besides just talk it really means little.

As for sharing personal stuff, I think some share way too much. I share quite a bit, yet I don’t share that much. I don’t rant on and on about how unfair I think many things are or how most people have disappointed me yet I still have this compulsion to trust everyone [to some degree]. That I reserve for family and they just ‘love’ me for it. I think. Truth is I laugh every day. Life is pretty good even if I’m not happy with many things. And now I’ve shared too much.
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By: Blake @ Props Blog Rewiews

Blake @ Props Blog Rewiews — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:06:08 +0000

I don’t see how selling a site makes you lose your credibility? If you’re name is tied to your site, when you sell it, people will still recognize you and respect you for what you built. Mark Cuban sold broadcast.com, but he’s still well known and reputable as a businessman.
The only serious danger I see is if the people who takeover make a mess of your site and people don’t know you’ve moved on.
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By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:10:17 +0000

Lori-Jane. Sounds very Laura Ashley.

But it wouldn’t be hyphenated. Just Lori Jane.

By: Lisis

Lisis — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:03:41 +0000

I’m going to start calling you Lori-Jane… it sounds so Southern Belle, don’t you think? ;)

As for the topic at hand, I’m totally and hopelessly transparent on the Net, for better or worse. It’s too late to back-track now.

I’m off to visit my sweet friend, Lori-Jane, bless her heart. (I like it! Especially since she’s not very Southern Belle-ish at all!)

By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:38:55 +0000

Memories? Memories?

What are these “memories” you speak of.

I can’t recall a thing.

Heh.
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By: Gabe | freebloghelp.com

Gabe | freebloghelp.com — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:37:23 +0000

“The bad old days”… love the term. But then again, those were great HS memories, too!
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By: Dana @ Blogging Update

Dana @ Blogging Update — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:38:24 +0000

Yeah — it is really hard to build credibility while anonymous. Credibility come when others know about you.
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By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:12:17 +0000

Gordie, I recently wrote in a comment somewhere that oversharing wasn’t the same as building intimacy. Just because it felt good to write it doesn’t mean it was good!

The fallout will be interesting. I’m watching one woman burn up in it right now. She dissipated her entire emotional energy over the holidays… and doesn’t have any left for inspiration.

Fortunately, I’m too much of a dunderhead for that. When I need to write a blog post and don’t feel inspired, I write dense, highly technical articles on programming that suck in search engines. These articles don’t need to be inspired, they just need to be correct.
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By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:08:49 +0000

Ah… the bad old days.

I swear this is true: at one point I had toted home a VT102 with modem to teach myself Java programming from the command line.
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