Comments on: Real life http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2005/09/02/real-life/ candour is good Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:53:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rem http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2005/09/02/real-life/comment-page-1/#comment-22644 Rem Sun, 04 Sep 2005 16:41:01 +0000 http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/?p=854#comment-22644 Couldn't agree more with you. Internet is a borderless world where privacy is nothing but the main comodity to be freely traded around. It may sound harsh and ruthless - but that's the reality that no law on earth can change. So, if one actually is not ready for this harsh reality - just keep away from it. As simple as that. :) Couldn’t agree more with you. Internet is a borderless world where privacy is nothing but the main comodity to be freely traded around. It may sound harsh and ruthless – but that’s the reality that no law on earth can change. So, if one actually is not ready for this harsh reality – just keep away from it. As simple as that. :)

]]> By: Andrea http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2005/09/02/real-life/comment-page-1/#comment-22586 Andrea Fri, 02 Sep 2005 09:43:04 +0000 http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/?p=854#comment-22586 Hey, I know your site. The biking thing is cool. I agree that some people are not happy with the attention, they just want to exist quietly. Unfortunately for them, the Internet, as a platform, does not respect that. It's just one of those things that life throws up; if you want to be on the Internet, be prepared that you may be noticed. If you're not comfortable with that, password-protect everything, or don't publish. Hey, I know your site. The biking thing is cool.

I agree that some people are not happy with the attention, they just want to exist quietly. Unfortunately for them, the Internet, as a platform, does not respect that. It’s just one of those things that life throws up; if you want to be on the Internet, be prepared that you may be noticed. If you’re not comfortable with that, password-protect everything, or don’t publish.

]]> By: Otterman http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2005/09/02/real-life/comment-page-1/#comment-22584 Otterman Fri, 02 Sep 2005 09:10:49 +0000 http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/?p=854#comment-22584 I suppose 'the buyer beware version' is part of the reality. But the apparent plethora of made-in-Singapore blogs allow many to operate in blissful anonymity- not scandalous or dripping with secrets, but just chugging along happily unnnoticed except by friends and the acccidental visitor. I can empathise with them - an adult who speaks up in a crowd here is a minority. When mrbrown and mr miyagi started local blog features, a humble blogger could get sussed out in the spirit of the aortal. Most rejoiced but some were dismayed. Is there a place in the internet for the latter? Just as aortals encourage some bloggers, they can discourage others unprepared for the attention. Not linking in some cases is as encouraging as linking in another. Same spirt! BTW, your is a site I <a href="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/index.php?entry=/life%20in%20Singapore/blogroll.txt" rel="nofollow">dropped in</a> regularly on when I started out. Now on RSS. I suppose ‘the buyer beware version’ is part of the reality.

But the apparent plethora of made-in-Singapore blogs allow many to operate in blissful anonymity- not scandalous or dripping with secrets, but just chugging along happily unnnoticed except by friends and the acccidental visitor.

I can empathise with them – an adult who speaks up in a crowd here is a minority.

When mrbrown and mr miyagi started local blog features, a humble blogger could get sussed out in the spirit of the aortal. Most rejoiced but some were dismayed. Is there a place in the internet for the latter?

Just as aortals encourage some bloggers, they can discourage others unprepared for the attention. Not linking in some cases is as encouraging as linking in another. Same spirt!

BTW, your is a site I dropped in regularly on when I started out. Now on RSS.

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