In the post Fractured online identity? – Targuman, Chris Brady continues the conversation we have been having here on this blog below, see my post: Fractured Identity.
In response to Chris, I have been thinking about the question of over-exposure in relation to the Long Road blog. I agree with him that anonymous blogging is problematic and I am committed to blogging always as myself. However, I am thinking about what Stevier says about her kids and allowing them to determine their own online presence. Hers are older than mine, but I have not been particularly discerning about limiting the way my kids are exposed on my site. That, perhaps, needs to be rethought.
In rethinking it, I may decide that I need to shift direction a bit on the Long Road. And yet, the original purpose of the Long Road was and remains to blog a philosophical life. For me, this means, to quote Aristotle, a life "with parents and children and a wife and, in general, with friends and fellow citizens as well, since humans are by nature political" (Nic. Ethics, 1097b10-11). Perhaps, though, there is a way to reflect on my experiences as a husband, a father, a friend and a citizen in public but in a more discriminate ways...
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