Concealment

Yay I am starting to put titles! People will actually know what I am writing about! :D

You see, there are a four types of blogposts:
1) blogs which say what you did that day, etc.
2) blogs which describe your angst in as much detail as possible without incriminating anyone.
3) blogs which use... codewords and mysterious language so that the reader's curiosity is piqued, but if he's not in your circle, he won't know what you're talking about.
4) blogs for FANGIRLING/FANBOYING!

So. There is a reason why I'm not overly angsty on here nowadays, and not being what sihui calls a mature person. Partly because I see no point in hinting at something that you want people you know to know and people you don't know not to know, because you might as well tell your friends about your angst straight, end of story. Also because I'm not a very... open person and would prefer that the less people know about me, (other than various fangirl inclinations) the better. Of course it helps a great deal if you share your troubles, and your friends know, and then they counsel you [other than awful school counsellors] and you feel better. But I don't see the need for the whole world to know about my personal life, however much I need comforting. It's not professional, because, well, orson scott card and gaiman don't do that on their blogs, and you know, if you want people to see you as being credible about the issues you're talking about and not overly emotional, you just won't make an angsty entry public.

Though there are people who get by the distinctions just fine by friends-locking their angsty entries and making the fangirly ones public, like chanel. Or there are people who f-lock their entire blog, which is kind of safer. But I don't think I can do that because I don't have a lot of human traffic as it is xD and the exhibitionist in me actually wants people to see what I think.

It all depends on what the purpose of your blog is, I guess. Gaiman's purpose is to update his fans about his appearances and what he's working on, so it's more work-related stuff interspersed with general what-I-did-today. Xiaxue's purpose is to get as many people visiting her site as possible, so she posts lots of pictures, controversial entries, bitching and the lot. She does live on the ads, after all. Yearmates are more like food-for-thought people, and they use their blogs to think out their theories and views on what is happening, hence the insightful reflective entries.

Reader, think about your blog (if you have one) and what it means to you. What makes you update it regularly? What makes you put in effort to structure and organise your entries? What makes you practice self-censorship? In all, consider the reason why you write what you do, to make your entries more meaningful, not to other people, but to YOU.