Community Chat

[hckynut]

This is Bulletin Board and a couple others that are similar to it are about as close as I get to Social Media.

[Pook]

I believe that documenting and journaling is a good way to cope but can't understand the need to publicly air all. I'm sure many are well intentioned and I guess some need that outlet but I think a lot want the sympathy and attention (and I'm not trying to be callous and take away from their sorrow and grief). I do not want to hear every detail and have no desire to step inside anyone's life. I am a very private person so I just don't really understand the need to go public with everything.

[abbeythe 8th]

I've never thought much about the blogging and journaling. I hate when they post pictures of their vulnerable loved ones. In sickness and then death, we are entitled to some dignity.

[Qwackertoo]

Pretty simple. Read it. Or don't read it. I don't read them. One of those ""to each their own"" type decisions. Theirs to write/type/publish and yours to read it or not.

[straykatz]

What's so great about this all is that we have the choice to read or not read it.

[OCGurl]

I'm sure that others personal blogs help others who are facing the same situations. Many people don't receive the support they need from family or friends so they are looking for it on forums & blogs, so while it may be too much information for some it is probably helping others going through an illness or loss.

[Sawn]

On 6/23/2014 minkbunny said:

terrier,

You mentioned the words narcissistic and self serving in an earlier post.

Do you feel that way when others write about their homes, gardens, cooking, whatever their interests are - perhaps even sharing photos - with others?

Or just sharing what a person cares about?

[Sawn]

Sorry about my lack of expertise on the boards - I was just trying to quote the above because it's exactly how I feel. Also, terrier, I read the Buffalo News every day too, and no, the blue4ben blog was not on the front page all the time. None of us have the right to judge what that dear family went/are still going through......as for Jill Kelly, she is a brave woman, imo. No one is forcing any of us to read anything...

[terrier3]

On 6/24/2014 Sawn said:

On 6/23/2014 minkbunny said:

terrier,

You mentioned the words narcissistic and self serving in an earlier post.

Do you feel that way when others write about their homes, gardens, cooking, whatever their interests are - perhaps even sharing photos - with others?

Or just sharing what a person cares about?

Homes, gardens, cooking are all light topics.

I am conflicted - see BOTH pros and cons - re: bloggers who share every detail of personal family struggles - life & death situations, adultery, drug abuse, violence, etc.

There is a difference posting on an anonymous board vs. putting your entire family's secrets out for public consumption under your own name.

[terrier3]

On 6/24/2014 Sawn said: Sorry about my lack of expertise on the boards - I was just trying to quote the above because it's exactly how I feel. Also, terrier, I read the Buffalo News every day too, and no, the blue4ben blog was not on the front page all the time. None of us have the right to judge what that dear family went/are still going through......as for Jill Kelly, she is a brave woman, imo. No one is forcing any of us to read anything...

I didn't JUDGE what Ben's family is going through or what the Kelly's are facing.

I am conflicted about sharing every detail every day in blogs that go out to thousands of strangers and then are disseminated through newspapers too.