Amanda (jing-wen.com)

[disalarming]

These interviews started with the intention of getting to know my online friends better, and exposing a side of them that might not necessarily be apparent online. Each interviewee was asked ten questions, five of which were generic, and five of which directly applied to the specific individual. If you are interested in being interviewed, please leave a comment on this post.

Interview with Amanda of jing-wen.com:

• Do your friends and family know you have a blog? If so, do they read it?
  Off the top of my head, I’d say that about a dozen RL friends know about my blog – about five read regularly, but only one ever comments (any time you see a comment from a Rebekah, that’s her!). None of them would ever speak to me in person about my blog though. Surprisingly few friends know about it – I don’t try to hide the fact that I have a blog, but then again, I’m not the type of person who will come out and randomly talk about it unless a RL conversation is about new media technologies and digital communication…which it rarely is! Basically, unless it’s relevant to the discussion at hand, I don’t talk about my blog, and thus there’s no reason for my friends to know about it!

  As for my family, I know my brother knows about my blog, though I also know that he doesn’t care enough to read it. My parents I think have a vague idea – I told them roughly two years ago and their only response was “You don’t have anything interesting enough to write about, would anyone even read it?”. Little do they know! I never worry about them reading the blog however as: 1) my dad uses the internet regularly, but only to browse Chinese websites. He can’t read English, so he’d never read my blog; 2) my mum is technologically spastic and doesn’t know how to use the Internet, though she can read English. I only have to worry when they join forces and work together to get to my blog!

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Cross-posted from breakthesky.net. Please leave any comments there.