Public domain

Blogs can be considered as a diary of sorts, where bloggers write down their thoughts and experience. However, different from diaries, blogs can be read by other people. Blogs are in the public domain where others can access, read and comment on your entries. I have been told that some bloggers get a kick out of having people accessing and reading their blogs.

In any case, bloggers must really be sure that they want to post what they post because whatever that is posted would be read by people - including your family members, friends, family members of friends, friends of family members... - well, you get the idea. In this day and age, where the Internet makes the world smaller, one can never be sure who actually reads one's blog entry.

The following is a real case that actually took place. A young blogger posted in her blog that she was involved in a small accident involving her father's motorcycle. One of the readers of her blog told his wife about the story, as the wife works in the same place as the blogger's father. The next morning, the wife of the reader of the blog told the father of the blogger about the accident. When the blogger's father returned home and asked the blogger, she flatly denied it even though there was a small dent on the motorcycle.

Interesting, isn't it? One is willing to tell the whole world about what happened by posting an entry in one's blog, and yet lied to one's father about the very same thing.

Too bad the father is not a blogroller. Otherwise, he would easily find the entry which is still available in his daughter's blog.