The Risks of Blogging

Let me just start off this post by pointing out that I am actually at work as I write this post...

If I had a personal blog that I wrote about my daily life in, I would be very cautious about trying to seperate the blog from my work life, becuase I know the risks of posting information that others, especially superiors, can see. I think it would be innappropriate to blog about others at my work, or about my superiors, becuase you are just putting that information out there for others to see, and you know that anyone has access to that info. I think it is fine to talk about like your social life and such things, but you just would have to use discretion when talking about them because you don't want others to think badly of you for the decisions you make when you are not at the workplace. I do think that it is unfair for people to be fired for writing about a company in their blog. I think reasonable discplinary action would be fair, and if the company has a policy about things that employees write, it is fine to go over it and make employees very aware of the consequences of putting the company in a bad light. IF a person never mentions the name of the company in their blog though, they have to remember that people always can find out where they work, or they might already know. I do think that blogging is different from just chatting in a bar on a Friday becuase blogging actually put things in writing for others to see. Overall, I think people should just avoid blogging about information that could get them in trouble!