Online Profiles.

For some reason I've been thinking about "if someone tried to find me online, what would they find?" and "would I want them to find this?".

I'm not sure.

When people started to tell me "hey I found your blog" it creeped me out. I don't know why though-- I'm posting something out into the world for all to read, it's not that hard to find me. But then again, that was 2003 and we didn't have facebook or twitter to answer all of our questions of what other people we once knew are up to and pretty much the only way for someone to find me was to type my name into google. But all of this brings up new questions, of "do I want people to find me/this?" and "who am I writing for?". I identify target audiences at work, so I'm always thinking about that, but yet, I don't know who's actually reading my crazy rants about working too much or running. When I started blogging in 2003, it was a way to keep up with my study abroad friends. They were the only people that I knew were reading this and that was just fine. We wanted to stay in touch and at the time, it was the easiest way to do so. Now, that's just not the case. Twitter and facebook are all so much quicker and easier, yet I continue to write about myself?

It makes me feel very self centered and that I want people to look at me. But, I don't. I sort of like just sulking around in the background and seeing who stops bye. I don't really publish the address anywhere, so I know if someone finds me, they had to try a little bit. I also keep writing because I like to read my friends blogs. I like knowing what they are up to and how their lives are going, so I guess I keep writing for them. Does my silly little blog need a purpose or do I need to know who's reading?

Not today... but someday.