How Much Do I Share?
I’m not new to blogging, but I’m new to blogging about photography. One of the things I struggle with is how much of my private life to reveal. I’m sure it’s something with which many bloggers struggle. I love sharing about my life, but there are things, mostly people, that I want to protect from the creeps and pervs out there on the net.
Specifically, I struggle with how much to share about my wife and son. Do I mention their names? What about just initials? I know I can err on the side of caution, and that’s probably what I’ll do, but so much of photography is focused on my family life.
When I get right down to it, the one thing that chaps my hide, is my choice to not show their faces. I’ve had to deal with some questionable people on flickr (a rant for another post). After much individual blocking, I just marked all photos with children as private (except for friends and family). I don’t have that option here on SyncSpeed. Therefore, until now at least, I haven’t been able to share some of my favorite, and best, photos. What’s a blogger to do?
If you have a blog or online photo site, what choices have you made regarding how much of your personal life to reveal?
Responses and Conversations
John, I know what you mean. I blog incessantly about my daugther’s babyhood on my personal blog. And since it’s mostly all about her, I usually add photos of what she’s been up to.
And then in my photo blog, it’s all about Shooting the Kids and how to take digital photographs of…you guessed it – kids. I’ve been trying to figure out how to do that in the best possible way. Fortunately, I have not had issues with creeps on Flickr. Yet, anyway. I would love to see if other people post comments about their thoughts on this subject. I would love to protect my family’s privacy, but how do I do this without completely censoring everything I blog about?
I guess I’m just pretty trusting.
Comment by Amy on February 15th, 2006 at 4:24 pm