Who am I when I blog?
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When I'm blogging does my name become "aerobil" or "lyings and tirades" as it does over at this person's blog, who I might refer to as "Becky" or as "StepAside." When I referred in yesterday's post to Madeline and Tyra, should I have referred to them instead as academom and tyratae? Is there an blog etiquette issue I don't know about?
posted by aerobil @ 8:49 PM
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good question. i don't know. i really confuse people by having several; should i be "tyratae," b/c that's who i am on my "social" blog, or some version of "cinnabar & alabaster" b/c that's the name of my "academic" blog (neither of which fit into these categories half the time anyway)? should i abbreviate the latter as "cinnaster," which is actually its filepath, & then call myself that b/c it's quirky & (maybe) clever? when i post to class, i'm usually "ttobryan" in collin's class, b/c that's what the default's set at, but in becky's i show up as all sorts of things (not teakettle, though. that wasn't me!).
if there's blog etiquette for these things, i don't know about it. i usually see derek refered to as "derek at earth wide moth," & he's blog-famous, so i suppose you're "amy at lying and tirades" & i'm "tyra at wherever i am today"...
but, then, at livejournal going by usernames IS protocol, so much so that the code has built-in cheat-tags to make insta-links when you do it. probably that's b/c so many of its users are 13 & have more reason to remain anonymous than us reasonable (ha) adults (ha) our here polishing our faces for public presentation.
For a while, I thought seriously about referring to myself in the third person, as The Former Native Speaker (a la Miss Manners), but I was afraid I'd sound pompous if I did that. I think I've only done it once.
I see that when some people put up blogrolls, they use the "real" names of the writers (like Collin writes "Susan Adams" in his blogroll instead of "Susan Sinclair" or "Tales of a 9th-grade Tube Player")... I wondered about that, but I figure Collin knows more about blogiquette than I do...
Thanks for bringing this up, Ms. A. I wondered about this in terms of referring to non-blog-o-world folks, too, and in that context, I recall your own ruminations on including your sibs in some of your own published writing.
I suppose if someone wanted to make a blog really, really anonymous, they wouldn't tell folks who "know" them about said blog. Does that make sense? I mean, you'd make it a fully anonymous writing space, with no links to your other work. But then, it would be hard to talk about anything personal without soooo fictionalizing it, it would no longer be meaningful.
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