Currently single, I find myself more and more aware of this dilemma of when to tell a potential "someone" about this blog. On the one hand I think it would be great if we could get to know each other the regular way, before I reveal that there exists this vast online repository of information about myself— which may be a huge turn off for someone I’ve only just met. On the other hand it’s nice to think that someone wouldn’t be scared off, and that it might actually help them to get to know me better (although of course there is always going to be a lot about me which doesn’t get recorded here, it is still very much me ).

Then there’s the practical issue, of exactly how one hides a blog which is already public. Right now, if someone knows my name then they can google me, and from there it’s only a click or two to get to my front page. I could try removing all references which link my name to this site, but then I don’t really want to hide my identity here— that’s not what blogging is about for me.

So currently I figure that at least if I tell someone about it it saves me having to wonder if they’ve already discovered it themselves and are secretly learning all my strengths and weaknesses.

… But then, if I did somehow keep it secret I’d be free to use an anecdote without worrying that they’d already read it on the blog… and the fact that I’m already imagining this post being read by someone I want to impress, and considering not posting it for that reason alone…

Hmmm.

If I do decide to make it less traceable to my name (just enough to avoid the casual googling) I will do it at the same time I change the domain and remove stinky Wordpress (which means probably sometime within the next 5 years).

Update: A very cute and slightly pertinent comic from xkcd

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