Our World
Wow. TGP got himself an IPad yesterday. It's a toy, a powerful one, but a toy. Fun. Cool. Amazing. Useful.
He got it just in time to start reconsidering what blogging, that is, speaking in a public forum about semi-private things--all means. Photos he posts turn up in weird places. On ads, even. His family sometimes objects to being spoken of or having their photos displayed.
Plottie used to disparage those comments, half-laugh them off. He can't do that anymore. It may mean that blogging, which for him has been a treasure, a way to do what he did yesterday, to go back to 2007 and revisit a great trip to NOLA and grab some photos from there, to recall grand moments that he had already forgotten, has become a potential nightmare to others.
He has been able to record certain days of all of Bellybone's life, for example, from her birth forward. But will some of these photos embarrass her later?
He has felt that his creative life belongs to him, in the same way that a song or story he writes is nothing but his view, and his right. He is sensitive to other people. God knows he does not write the half of what he feels, not in a public or any other forum. He is not out to hurt people.
But photos are personal. Photos are not words or thoughts. He will always delete any photo that bothers anybody, but people don't like to ask. And perhaps the public forum has taken us beyond the blogger's personal wishes.
Plotnik used to say that if everybody in the room either hated or loved one of his songs they were probably right. By now, just about everybody he loves has complained about one thing or another in The Great Plotnik. The room, and the world in which we live, just might be beginning to speak.
posted by DAK @ 9:23 AM
5 Comments:
I post a LOT of pictures, and have had a few requests for removal, but not many. They really are out there though; visible and stealable. But like you, I love how they help me remember a moment.
You do fine (well, except maybe all those Dodger things, but even those are pretty rare nowadays).
Use that new toy to play with science: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/color-uncovered/id470299591?ls=1&mt=8
It's a dilemna and I know what you're sayin. But I would miss this way of keeping up with you if you were to stop blogging. Enjoy your iPad. I replaced my computer with one. It's almost enough.
god,after Facebook blogging seems tame! I would keep posting because it's important to you and your friends and family, just maybe leave out some photos, or not...I would really miss your blog because it makes me think and laugh and cry. Congrats on the iPad, it is next on my Wish List!
It's a tough balance, that's for sure. I also struggle with how much to share. I may make my blog private as the girls head to school. At least that way people will have to log in to read it.
Post a Comment
<< Home