I am not sure if I understood you comment completely. Do you mean I should use more personal examples than the ones I listed for each point?

Also, do you think it can be possible to associate some name to your comment? I think there is someone else using the words “Organic food” to post comments too, and it may cause some confusion to simply associate you with those keywords.

Hmmm, I really like that approach: “Nice Guy” instead of the real name, with that name always being used. Valerie does that, and so does Ally. Valerie usually uses different letters consistently when talking about different people, and Ally has both letters and words like “Quite Nosey But Nice Neighbour” to talk about different things and people.

I like your writing style, and the way you talk about things. It’s unique, and specific to you. So basically, you want to talk about things but also not reveal private stuff all the time, or some times?

Yes, it can become very hard to find a balance between the online and the offline worlds. Replacing names with fake names may help, and so can password protected entries. But I prefer replacing names and other things like profession, not sure why. Maybe because I have not yet seen many great examples of how password protected entries can maintain the amount of interest a reader, or me, may have in a piece of writing compared to non-passworded entries.

I have seen some blogs that are written really well, with replacement names such as “Nice Guy” or something for example, and that same name is always used for that person. All the private stuff is replaced, such as [my profession] or something. Though some of the content is criticising and a little bit mean, the blog itself is in a light hearted manner… though, I don’t know, it’d feel bad to find that blog and realise it was you, even if the names and important details are replaced.

I’m seriously reconsidering my own blog lately because of this exact reason… part of me wants to blog, such as a diary… but I while things I want to hear others thoughts (well, hmm.. I don’t need to… I would just like to), I don’t want to be revealing private stuff.

I think its becoming harder to find a balance between the online world, and the offline world. So much offline-world business - business’s, work, social network etc, is moving into the online world… you have to be careful what you do or say or the worlds might clash.

Yes, diaries are supposed to be private, opposite to many typical blogs of today unless a blogger takes extra measures to protect their domain from anyone they do not want to come across their blogs. Still, it can be really hard, since a simply robots.txt file does not do the complete trick or keeping all search engines and crawling bots at bay.

Also, people link to other sites all the times, so sometimes a person may find a link to someone’s name and say “Hey, this name sounds familiar” and bam! They come across a blog that is supposed to be hidden from them. All it can take is to search for sites and keywords similar to their own life and similar to the blog that wants to stay hidden, and then find associated and linked content to the blog in question. Is it hard? Yes. Is it impossible? No.

What is your opinion about password protected blogs that want to act as private diaries?

People think a blog can be used as a diary, mmm ain’t diaries supposed to be private the opposite to a blog?