CBS News has an interesting article about the increasingly common pitfalls of blogging. When pepole use blogs to express their innermost feelings and thoughts for the whole world to see, in certainly situations, it can come back to haunt them. That can be in the form of getting fired for complaining about their jobs in their blogs, or as I recently read, making unfavorable impressions on potential employers in the academic world. As the article notes,

Some people are, however, 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. And Maya Marcel-Keyes, daughter of conservative politician Alan Keyes, discovered the trickiness of providing personal details online when her discussions on her blog about being a lesbian became an issue during her father’s recent run for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois (he made anti-gay statements during the campaign). . . .

Some also speculate that more scandalous blog entries - especially those about partying and dating exploits - will have ramifications down the road. “I would bet that in the 2016 election, somebody’s Facebook entry will come back to bite them,” Steve Jones, head of the communications department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, says, referring to thefacebook.com, a networking site for college students and alumni that is something of a cross between a yearbook and a blog.

That’s why you’ll find that the overwhelming majority of my blog entries are about news items and current events. Some things should remain private.