The Dangers Of Writing About Yourself

I have not joined any social networking sites and I choose to write on my blogs anonymously. Why? because you never know who is reading.

Imagine writing about a wild holiday you had in Thailand, posting pictures of the girls you picked up and the mushroom omelette you ate. You wrote about the fun time you had, the naughty things you did and made all of your "friends" jealous.

Fast forward a few years.

A member of the Human Resources department does a keyword search on your name on Google and various Social Networking Sites (SNS) and comes across your pictures. Needless to say you do not get an interview from that company.

Imagine that you connect with some of your co-workers on a SNS, you talk online with each other about how the manager is a jerk and you wish you could set fire to him. Your manager is sent a copy of this conversation and security are escorting you out of the building.

Imagine that you are chatting with some hot chick on the net. You start sending pictures back and forth and have a hot and steamy conversation. It turns out that it's a guy who loves to make fun of people who take the internet too seriously and they post the entire conversation, along with your pictures, on a website. Then your Manager finds it.

Please be careful with what you say on the internet. You aren't as anonymous as you'd like to think that you are. I personally stick with just e-mail to keep in contact with my friends, it's private and your company can't read it. And never say anything bad while using your company e-mail address!

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The Love Has Gone

The love has gone, she shine has worn off and the "new car" smell has been replaced by something else.

I think I've gone off blogging and here's why: It started to feel like work.

The idea of coming home to write posts, submit pages to social networking sites, do some EntreCard clicks and check my advertising started to feel like another job. On top of already having a full-time job and a family, it was the last thing I needed.

So I've taken a break and it has encouraged me to think of a few things.

1. Enough chasing the EntreCard dragon. Sure I can drop 900 cards a day, but the traffic I get in return for my effort is hardly worth it. I get traffic simply by having the widget there and that is enough for me.

2. Enough of forcing myself to write posts. If there is an idea there, I will write, but if the well is dry then I won't. I've always written for myself first and gotten satisfaction from that, it's only when I've started trying to please others that things have gone down hill.

3. It's a hobby and not a job. I will never make any serious $$ by blogging, and neither will you, so lets stop trying to kid ourselves and have some fun instead?

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Happy New Year

And a Happy New Year to you and yours.

There will be a few changes at jdonuts.com this year.

Honestly, I will be posting less.

There are other things that take up more of my time than writing about Japan, Blogging & FlyFF.

Of course I will post something when I have something interesting to say, but if there is nothing on my mind then there will be nothing on this page.

That said, there are a few things that have been on my mind but I simply haven't had the time nor energy to put them up. So why not subscribe to my posts by the links above and sit back and enjoy whatever I write, whenever I can write it?

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