Circle of Trust

In the old world, it was very easy to have split personalities. A work personality, a family personality, one for your partner, and a number with different circles of friends. Not really different personalities but the different facets could co-exist quite comfortably.

The Goth could take off his make-up and take out his ear-ring and go to church. The priest could put on his drag and go do his stand-up comedy act. The playboy model could go to a staunch feminist book club dressed as a librarian. For different circles of friends, you may just not bring certain things up in conversation. Your sports watching buddies, your drinking buddies, your emotional support buddies, and then play cricket for the local church team.

Mitch Joel asks the question in the modern world does keeping a blog or rather is building a personal brand hurting your career.. My recruitment agent when I was recently looking for a job in London suggested I not mention my blog. She said, it was very `revealing'. Normally you keep your political,philosophical,sexual,musical and other views separate from work. In a digital age of ideas, that becomes harder and harder.

You are relying on everyone accepting the concept of freedom of speech. You are relying on everyone being open-minded. People are going to find out a whole bunch more about you than they did in the past. For now, very few people (relatively speaking), are blogosphere literate and so not many people find things out. But more and more `Google-stalking' will mean people can find out all they want about what you write. And you leave an electronic finger-print that never goes away.

There are a number of things I think about that I would love to discuss with open-minded, tell me everything, non-judgemental people that I either don't have the guts to write about, or don't think it is appropriate to write about.

There are many people whose blogs are more like journals. Some are very very personal. Then there is the dilemma of what rights do others have for privacy? Are you `allowed' to write about interactions with people? What in personal interactions is sacred?

The ethics of writing about past relationships for example? Or as some do, even current relationships?

In a world of ideas, one where I believe it will become almost impossible to hide, I think people are going to be forced to develop much greater levels of emotional maturity. We are going to have to be more accepting.

We are going to have to if we want people to accept us back! Cause all warts are going to be exposed. The age of blunt honesty?