I have been having a difficult time getting my children to publish on their blogs. Naturally they want to lean toward the Facebook, and MySpace crap. My daughter finally became interested in her blog and my mother commented on it which killed it for my girl, “I don’t want my grandmother reading this!” In that case, my mother should have stayed in the shadows.

As for “airing the dirty laundry,” I’ve beat that one around a bunch. I’m sure my blog hurt my interviewing when I took a swing at getting back into the corporate world. And I was raised that we must present ourselves correctly, and that image was important. But I am who I am. And I’d rather let people see me than some contrived pseudo me. I probably don’t want to hang out with those who choose to disassociate themselves from me because of judgments based upon my writings anyway.

The problem with blogging a transparent life is that even with “utter transparency” we cannot reveal everything. There is not time! And everything is not appropriate. As much as I would like to blog about my finances, I cannot see that as “appropriate.” Readers make the poor assumption that everything they read is 1) truth and not embellished and 2) is everything! Unfortunately, blogging is but a small glimpse into a complex life. I feel that readers are too quick to judge based on that sliver of observation. But honestly, I’m good with that. Hopefully when they meet me in real life they’ll give me a chance to know the whole person.

I’ve written about this topic in why I blog and Employers READ ME.