June 22nd, 2003

This is a half-rant. Not really.

I respect people’s right to roam wherever they want online. If I like to spend my time at Seraphim Call sites, or sites about the Merchant of Venice, that’s my own business. Yet at the same time people’s rights to privacy get called into question.

Yes, I’m talking about YOU. The one reading my blog right now.

Blog is short for weblog, of course. It’s a place where opinions can be freely expressed to the world. A spot where what we write shouldn’t have to be censored. We write what we think, what happened, who we think was at fault. Sometimes serious, at others light-hearted. Maybe just a link or two to a website which we thought was amazing in some way: humour, games, design, even.

That being said, it’s not unusual that there would be… certain people that I wouldn’t want to read this thing. This is the reason why several of my friends have put password protection on their blogs (they’ve since been removed from my links.)

As time has gone on, I feel that I can express less and less freely what I really mean, for fear of offending someone out there. I don’t know who reads this thing, quite honestly. I suppose part of that is my fault. I’ve given out the URL to my close friends, but… =\ I lose control of where it goes after that.

I’ll be adding the readme link quite soon, I think.

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4 Responses to “Rant. Kinda.”

Reina Says:

really is a shame, one of the problems with having a weblog I’m afraid, but you shouldn’t be afraid of what you write on there for fear of hurting or annoying other people, its your site ne?

I frequently cross that line with my weblog, I know it’ll hurt or annoy people but is has to be said, Ii just face up to it.

If you’re having trouble with anyone in particular, let me know okay ? ^^;

Reina Says:

oops, forgot to say how pretty your new layout is ^^; well done lovely.

Emiko Says:

Hey Gemmy, I’ll link you on my journal now 🙂 It is much simpler that way XD And yeah, the whole privacy issue is a bit of a problem but as long as you put a disclaimer on there that people will notice, not much else you can do than that! You shouldn’t have to worry about it. Or you could always get a livejournal ^^

And I love this layout! I love First Love too, it’s one of my favourit Utada songs 😀

kley Says:

I know how you feel – pretty much the same thing happened to me and my family demanded I stop writing on the internet because it could ‘be used against me someday’ @_@;;;. I just pretty much ignored them…

I hate that they found it though because of my own stupidity in not clearing the history on the computer at my parents’ house -.-;;;.

Ah well.