A Blog Too Far Online Diary Keepers Learn Too Much Can Be Revealed

Augusta Chronicle, The › July 11, 2005

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CHICAGO - Blogs are everywhere - increasingly, the place where young people go to bare their souls, to vent, to gossip. And often they do so with unabashed fervor and little self-editing, posting their innermost thoughts for any number of Web surfers to see.

There is a freedom in it, as 23-year-old Allison Martin attests: "Since the people who read my blog are friends or acquaintances of mine, my philosophy is to be totally honest - whether it's about how uncomfortable my panty hose are or my opinions about First Amendment law," says Ms. Martin, who lives in suburban Chicago and has been blogging for four years.

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A Blog Too Far Online Diary Keepers Learn Too Much Can Be Revealed

Some, however, are finding that putting one's life online can have a price. A few bloggers, for instance, have been fired for writing about work on personal online journals. Maya Marcel-Keyes, a daughter of conservative politician Alan Keyes, discovered the trickiness of providing personal details online when...

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