Wow, I have a blog? I’d almost forgotten. Thanks for bearing with me as I continue to unpack here at my new “home.” I dealt with an interesting issue this week in the blogosphere. Gossip and rumours. I live on an Island that uses gossip as its local sport. I’m a very private person, so I don’t generally give people much fodder to talk about. The downside of that strategy is that the less people know about you, the more they will make up. Most gossip about me centers on false beliefs based on what people “see.” The most difficult one for me to “fight” has been that I’m either Mormon, Catholic, or a right-wing whacko simply because I have a a large family.
Gossip in the blogosphere has been a bit more rampant, harder to understand, and nearly impossible to correct or combat.
I think most gossip stems from jealousy, anger, or misunderstandings. Just like when I was 15, and a gaggle of girls started a rumour that I stuffed my bra. When one of the girls paid her little brother to roller skate by me and grab the alleged “socks,” and then discovered that I really was just well-endowed, they didn’t correct the first rumour but simply conjured up a new one!
A fellow blogger once said to me, “the stuff I know about the secret lives of bloggers would shock you.” Do we all really have this much exciting stuff going on? Granted my life is much more, shall we say “eventful” than others, but when you have 8 people and 3 animals in a little house, on a little rock floating out in the ocean, you are going to have some drama involved!
It won’t be long before I’ll see this listing in my TV Guide.
The Great Big Blog Opera (miniseries, 2008)
As The Blog Turns, Blogs Of Our Lives, All My Bloggers. These true-life “tales” of the secret lives of bloggers and the mysterious behind-the-scenes of the blogosphere are much more exciting and entertaining than the sudsy fare we get on daytime TV.
I’ve decided, as long as it doesn’t hurt my family (and this is even more important to me now that 3 of my kids are blogging), or hurt a friend, I’m going to laugh it off and ignore it. I think it comes with the territory of having a blog. While we are not “celebrities,” we do put ourselves out there for the whole world to see and read about. So people gossiping about you or poking fun at you, or even speaking about you in derogatory, negative and undeserved terms might just be an ugly fact of blogging we have to deal with. I should know, it happened to me this week.
I’ll be back soon with lots of real-life, exciting, and unbelievable stories of my own life. In the meantime, check out this very cool guilt-free blog revolution I discovered today.
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