It has been a little over a month since I launched this little blog. When I started it, I hadn't come up with a plan about what I want to write, the purpose, a vision, or anything that most people do before they venture out and try something. I have been writing at the Silicon Valley Mom's Blog for over a year and all I knew was that I had more to say than what I could write there. Or otherwise I'd be posting every day on a community blog which I didn't think they (or I for that matter) wanted.
I've watched the stats on this blog and have been quite surprised to see how many people are actually reading. It's not like I have a tremendous following like Dooce, but everyday there are people reading this blog. And considering that I have only told like three people in my "real" life about this blog, I'm quite flattered that total strangers are reading about my seemingly ordinary life.
I don't write anonymously. I use only real names or nicknames on this site. I figure since you can Google my address and see through my front window or into my backyard, all bets for anonymity are lost at this point. I didn't start blogging with a pseudonym and I don't plan on changing.
But I have never told my family that I blog. Well, I told them that I was a writer on a community site about living in Silicon Valley. But I've never given out the link. Never asked friends or family to read it. And I've never thought about censoring my thoughts because I figured no one would know that it was me. Ot at least, I never came out straight and told them that it was me.
After a month of blogging on my own, I'm still learning about what I want to post and what I want to keep private. And I've been struggling with a most complicated blogging question:
Even though I do not blog anonymously, do I share this blog with my friends and family?
Need advice, blogosphere.
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