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A great (but simultaneously trivial) realisation

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Edited by Jonathan Jewell, Saturday 21 November 2015 at 20:42
Up until now, I'd assumed that no-one in the World would see this thing. Partly because it would only be the OU people who could see it, and secondly because I was really just messing around here, having a go at it here rather than a WordPress or Blogger (or, my favourite until lately, Weebly) site.

 

But, to my great surprise (and I'm glad I wasn't playing around *too* much), I found that actually, EVERYONE can see this. I'm about to start teaching, so I'll not be getting into the implications of this for the future of this blog, or its purpose.

But the lesson, I think, is to be very careful what not just with what you are putting out there, but to consider whether or not you even know what it is you are putting it out there at all. I think this is a 'truckloads more worrying' issue.

It has been said that you should never put in writing what you'd not have the whole world read. Sitting next to a very personal account in my personal diary, I'm giving some very careful consideration to what I perhaps should be omitting.

My personal diary, my public (employment) blog, and all the stuff I witter on about on Facebook, etc. etc. I have no idea what my profile is like that, and the concomitant impact on my own brand...I'm not sure what part of it is worse?

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