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Date: 06 July 2006 13:52:48
I heard of a gulf between reality and blogality.
Person A was reading a blog written by person B. The two people involved knew each other, although with less affection than there might have been. And A found that the description of B's life in her blog was quite different from what A actually knew of B's life. This was a source of deep concern to A, and yet seems totally unsurprising to me. Firstly different people tell things differently (often so differently as to be unrecognizable - many a court case will testify to that). In fact, even the same person often tells things differently as time evolves (I've written about that recently, and at the moment I'm watching an even starker example where one person's description of certain events has evolved on an almost daily basis). But more importantly, surely blogs are not obliged to be accurate? Surely blogs are a fictionalized history that may have a greater or lesser amount in common with the life of the writer? Or is it just me that's making all this up?