Social Broadcast Precautions
Nov 19, 09- (by Alix B.)
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So here we are, in the 21st century, plugging into online recovery. Most Americans spend a fair portion of the day docked at their computers, for various reasons. Work, facebook, email, recovery blogging, facebook, more facebook. Trust me. I study this stuff.
I found a couple of articles today that discuss how easily we share private matters through online social networks. And how that can come back to haunt us. Over here in our sphere of the world, recovery bloggers try to maintain anonymity while discussing life shattering, personal matters. Matters that involve ugliness, taboos, crime, love, divorce, loss, addiction and INSPIRATION. Heck, why else are we doing it? Through our online portals, we’ve connected with hundreds, maybe thousands of other people who listen, share, and support the things we can’t talk about in public.
The questions are:
- What is private anymore?
- What things should we consider NOT saying even though we have a seemingly bottomless toilet with which to purge every thought and feeling?
Take a look at this recent article in Salon, and when you are done, have a look at today’s article in The Daily Orange.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
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Hey Alix!
Telling the truth here: LOADS and LOADS of thoughts, I’m leaving (on scooter, of course!) for a meeting, and all the way I shall be thinking of what I have just read in Salon, and Daily Orange, and the implications of our (my own) non-realization of what I’ve been doing on this machine…HOLY SH! To the world! It is so easy to type it all out, into this bottomless (g) toilet!
Thanks for your time spent here. Missed you!
Steve