Comments on: Eloquent Defense of Kidblogging http://artlung.com/blog/2008/05/10/eloquent-defense-of-kidblogging/ Blogging sporadically since February 2001. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:20:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Joe Crawford http://artlung.com/blog/2008/05/10/eloquent-defense-of-kidblogging/#comment-341470 Joe Crawford Mon, 12 May 2008 16:55:26 +0000 http://artlung.com/blog/?p=3247#comment-341470 Good points Sassy. Though my understanding is that Dooce does sanitize and fictionalize in a way that works for her and protects her daughter. I know that Dooce knows the risks of blogging family, given her long track record and real-world pushback from family, friends, and random internet jerks. I think I fall somewhere in the middle between your point of view and Dooce. Everyone finds their own level of comfort and intimacy with their audience, along with candor and details about family/friends. Good points Sassy. Though my understanding is that Dooce does sanitize and fictionalize in a way that works for her and protects her daughter.

I know that Dooce knows the risks of blogging family, given her long track record and real-world pushback from family, friends, and random internet jerks.

I think I fall somewhere in the middle between your point of view and Dooce. Everyone finds their own level of comfort and intimacy with their audience, along with candor and details about family/friends.

]]> By: Sassy http://artlung.com/blog/2008/05/10/eloquent-defense-of-kidblogging/#comment-341460 Sassy Mon, 12 May 2008 16:37:42 +0000 http://artlung.com/blog/?p=3247#comment-341460 I have to be honest I don't buy her explanation. I do find it distasteful, in the way that I find most too-personal blogs distasteful. The problem with blogging about your children - especially young children - is that the kids don't get to choose whether or not they want the intimate details of their lives exposed to strangers on the internet. I guess I wouldn't mind posting general, sanitized info about my kid, but there is a point where it crosses into the realm of weird to me. The reality is that Dooce is not doing this for wholly cathartic or altruistic means - she is attempting to build a careeer out of it. And like anyone who writes a tell-all book about their own family, she risks some pretty major issues from her subjects. I have to be honest I don’t buy her explanation. I do find it distasteful, in the way that I find most too-personal blogs distasteful. The problem with blogging about your children – especially young children – is that the kids don’t get to choose whether or not they want the intimate details of their lives exposed to strangers on the internet. I guess I wouldn’t mind posting general, sanitized info about my kid, but there is a point where it crosses into the realm of weird to me.

The reality is that Dooce is not doing this for wholly cathartic or altruistic means – she is attempting to build a careeer out of it. And like anyone who writes a tell-all book about their own family, she risks some pretty major issues from her subjects.

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