Comments on: Should You Blog Anonymously?

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:49:11 +0000

@Kurt: Yes, in your case, using a nickname definitely helped to protect your real identity. I am glad to hear that the negative information and photo were removed.

But yes, using an alias does give a bit of mystery. AND it enables you to write about more topics than you might otherwise write.

@Ajith: That is a great idea, and very important. I take for granted that there is virtually no censorship in our country when compared to others. Blogging under a real name could potentially get a lot of bloggers in trouble!

@Kim: You are definitely right. There really isn’t any privacy at all. Even without a SSN, we are tied to an IP address and that IP address can be used to find us… Actually, unless we blog at several random public computers, and use a free blog, and never give any hint to reveal our identity, privacy might not be possible.

And yes, I’m just started to get back in the pace of things. I had some unexpected things pop up which took me away from everything. Thanks for asking.

@Nihar: As for an about me page, I don’t know that one is truly necessary. But sometimes I do find them useful, especially if the subject matter makes me want to meet the blogger…

By: Nihar

Nihar — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:17:24 +0000

Nice post. My blog name has my name in it. But, i don’t like to give much more information. This is the reason, i don’t have about me page. But some of them have asked me in the past that why don’t have the about me page.

What do you think? Is about me page really required?

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:42:31 +0000

Ajith raises a good point of it being necessary for people is some countries to blog anonymously – otherwise they could go to jail or worse.

As an American I don’t believe we have really have any privacy. We rant about wanting it but it really doesn’t exist. The only way is to not have a social security # and live completely “off the grid”. For this reason, I don’t even try to blog anonymously and I simply assume that I have no privacy at all.

On an unrelated note I missed you last week and was starting to worry a little bit. If I hadn’t seen this new post when I visited today I was going to email you. I hope you were just really busy and not sick or anything.

By: Ajith Edassery | DollarShower

Ajith Edassery | DollarShower — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:10:07 +0000

In fact, anonymous blogging is not a bad idea if you talk about a lot of controversial topics. In countries where freedom of speech is not there, it is a good idea to go anonymous especially when taking on powerful criminals, politicians etc.

(In fact, I wanted to have an anonymous blog to talk about bad politics and religious fanaticsm etc)

Sometimes people even hide behind some big and popular person’s name (may be with their permission as well but not as a ghost writer). Even that won’t be a bad idea.

By: Kurt Avish

Kurt Avish — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:42:06 +0000

First: I know an about page is important but I dont have one for specific reasons.

I first started blogging with a nickname Kurt Avish which is ofcourse not my real name But its my nickname that I have always been using everywhere.

Recently a rival…well not exactly a rival…but maybe someone who cannot see my blog progress lol… started a campaign of defamation against my nickname and he even got a photo of me which I were using for the rss promotion on the DBT Blog idol competition. He made a splog with blogspot talking all sort of scrap against me and he even create a forum post on an OFFICIAL news website he managed for the defamation stuff. I got him to removed that though.

Well I guess the effect went inverse as readers of a blog I think can differentiate who is a real blogger and who is a defamer

I think blogging anonymously under a nickname is fun as there is some sense of mystery