It’s late already!!!

It’s fun to receive an email from a friend who always mesmerizes me with his anti-capitalism, non-conformist attitude. Instead of commenting on my blog he replied through email and I think there is something endearing about that.

The main argument he had, on the email, it’s that blog is something too public and he felt that it’s not write to read someone’s ‘diary’ as it’s supposed to be something private.

Well – so much about this – with the Internet and the increasing ease in personal publishing, there is an increasingly softened line between being private and public. As for me I still get quivers when I see people posting their intimate pictures publicly online (like those kissing hugging ones?) or diaries that are darn too personal. For example, I can discuss about the impacts of the Internet on how we communicate, but I would never write in the public about, say relationships, as this is too private and not fair to those who are being commented.

So what I am writing now, and what I try to limit myself to, is some observations and sharing of things that I can tell almost anyone. Definitely not things that I would talk about when I am having a few glasses of wine with my friends. That’s the difference.

What I worry is that, as a generation in between, I see two patched of people who share absolutely different ideas on this – the pre-blog folks and the post-blog folks. I reckon that a 40 year old person reading a random sample of xanga (the notoriously ‘lame’ site felt by some) would be horrified by how some of the kids post their intimate aspects online publicly (try this google link with keywords search ‘xanga love hate damn f*cking stupid’ – it’s pretty interesting of what we got at hand). I used to term that online emotional exhibitionism. Again, I can post pictures about architectures, things that I see in the public, but never private pictures online.

Of course, rant is a hard categories. I do have my rants filtered though – a rule of the thumb is that we shouldn’t name people (well perhaps except public figures) considering it’s public when you hit the ‘save’ button.

But something like – d*mn those undergrads at the dorm are really noisy and it’s already 12:30 am. Right.

No, this is not an example – I’m definitely complaining

/from a person who never live in a dorm till now