Mar/094
We Don't Really Live In Public
The joke about "overshare" and "living in public" is that no such thing actually exists. The story actually happens between the status updates, not in them.
When I think back on my years of compulsive blogging, what's most striking to me is how much I didn't say, how much didn't get documented or only got referred to in the vaguest of terms, mostly because I didn't want to upset anyone or worse, have to explain myself. It becomes about pleasing you, the audience, the reader, whoever I happen to be writing for at the time, intentionally or not. The audience that screams at the girl in the horror movie to just run outside or not to get into the car.
And yeah, sometimes I wish I'd said more, even in those webpages that will never see the light of day ever again, that will never be accesible anywhere, ever, but the truth is, I know what happened. I can piece it together.