Really. Cannot be more excited at the idea. I can’t speak for others but for me, individually, there is no weirdness, no thoughts of subterfuge or anything along those lines, because the place you are coming from of help and support and love is so, so evident to anyone who reads your writing.

I pulled my feed off FB and decided my friends know where my blog is if they want to go look at it. They can subscribe to my feed on their own; I don’t have to shove it down their throats.

Just my thoughts.
.-= Terry Heath´s last post … Let’s All Share Some SPAM For The Holidays =-.

Yes realised that I feel like I need to get clear on what the best system might be for sharing my developing work/blog right now. I wondered if anyone else had similar doubts and niggles about distinguishing what the boundaries are around private/public space.

I realised yesterday after reading this post that I felt quite icky that I’d been sharing my posts with FB friends. Tagging them into my writing. I am only now beginning to consider what it is to define what was once a totally private friends space, to one where my voice may EVENTUALLY tie into what I’d like to do on the business-y front.

I have to admit that I soooo wanted to share my writing/ramblings too so that sending those links made me feel oh soooo good and positive! Even if my friends never got round to reading my post’s (since many of them, in spite of being actual face-to-face friends, aren’t really my Right People in that sense of the word,)it still made me feel happy that I was making a start on developing my thing.

Which then got me thinking that maybe that was just my hunger to be seen and heard and therefore selfish and NOT GOOD! In fact yep I thought – that’d be my motivation there. Look at me, look at me, look at meeeeeee. Which you know is ok, I’m ok with that aspect to my character, it’s a need not a want, there with good reason. So fine, fine. But obviously it’s NOT ok if this means I’m ramming my loud, shouty voice down other people’s throats when they could do with an FB day off! It’s the sovereignity thing again isn’t it?

I know these things have to be able to be flexible enough to grow and change but still is there as yet an established etiquette amongst those who do not want to find they have slipped into grim marketing ways? I fear I may have slipped and invaded someone’s kingdom?

Should I perhapsm simply send out an email to all my FB friends to see if they minded me sharing my posts via their wall? Hmmm…

Tips chickens? Selma? I’m sure there’s no one right way of doing things but still…

Laters chickens!

x

Yes, that is an excellent question. I think I also need to ask myself another excellent question, which may by on the flip side of the same coin: Good grief, how many good business ideas am I this invisible to?

The temptation to hide — “Oh, no, wait, wait, please don’t notice me yet, I’m not good enough yet, I’m nowhere near ready…” — that comes up a lot for me. I am very good at Not Being Seen. (Although we happen to know, I’m over here…/montypythonreference)

Thanks for this, Havi. As always, there’s plenty of food for thought.
.-= Kathleen Avins @spiralsongkat´s last post … That tiny thing with feathers, which is hope =-.