General Announcement
As many of you know, my main reason for creating this blog was to have a space where I could engage in matters professional; topics related to my writings, my travels and lectures, heathen philosophy and general heathen topics.
There have been a few times - not many, but a few - where that line's been blurred, and things have gotten a bit too personal. I'm not blaming anyone buy myself, here, and really, what's in the well is in the well. Nothing on the internet is ever lost, and nothing done can be undone. However, I feel like I've taken this blog adrift from its purpose, and present action is something I can, and should engage in.
So I've made a few changes. One, blog posts that I felt were too personal for the intention of this blog have been put under friends' list filters. Nothing has been deleted, altered, or edited; it's just that if it's too far off the mark, it's under a security setting. This is to help maintain the original, open intent of this blog and for no other reason than that.
Two, I have made some changes to my list of friends. This is entirely due to the fact that, really, as much as I love conencting with people and keeping in touch with one another, the reality is that the internet is too big a time sink for me. If you're on my friends list and you post, I read your post - and that has become a thing that takes, quite honestly, a good four-six hours out of my day. As much as I love you all, that's four to six hours too many; I need to be focusing on my own writing, preparing my career for its next steps, heck, doing my dishes.
I am willing to say that, for the most part, life on Boarrider's blog will continue as normal. I'll be using friend-filters more often; frankly, I've never used them before today, so even one friends-locked post is one more than I ever did. I'll try not to get terribly personal at all, and retain this blog as the open, professional, spiritual, career-networking blog I intend it to be. Most of you probably won't even notice a difference.
But lines need to be drawn, and so I am drawing them. And there it is.
There have been a few times - not many, but a few - where that line's been blurred, and things have gotten a bit too personal. I'm not blaming anyone buy myself, here, and really, what's in the well is in the well. Nothing on the internet is ever lost, and nothing done can be undone. However, I feel like I've taken this blog adrift from its purpose, and present action is something I can, and should engage in.
So I've made a few changes. One, blog posts that I felt were too personal for the intention of this blog have been put under friends' list filters. Nothing has been deleted, altered, or edited; it's just that if it's too far off the mark, it's under a security setting. This is to help maintain the original, open intent of this blog and for no other reason than that.
Two, I have made some changes to my list of friends. This is entirely due to the fact that, really, as much as I love conencting with people and keeping in touch with one another, the reality is that the internet is too big a time sink for me. If you're on my friends list and you post, I read your post - and that has become a thing that takes, quite honestly, a good four-six hours out of my day. As much as I love you all, that's four to six hours too many; I need to be focusing on my own writing, preparing my career for its next steps, heck, doing my dishes.
I am willing to say that, for the most part, life on Boarrider's blog will continue as normal. I'll be using friend-filters more often; frankly, I've never used them before today, so even one friends-locked post is one more than I ever did. I'll try not to get terribly personal at all, and retain this blog as the open, professional, spiritual, career-networking blog I intend it to be. Most of you probably won't even notice a difference.
But lines need to be drawn, and so I am drawing them. And there it is.