The question, “Who knows that you blog”?, posed most recently on the Forking Mad+ blog and responded to by others, popped up several times on my micro.blog and a few other places, prompting me to reflect on it. Writing online as I have since 2007, my interest in publicising my blog has waxed and waned over time.
Early on, in the heady days in which a Nigerian blogging community blossomed, I was a proud announcer that I had a blog, sharing stuff I was proud of to Facebook and via email to a few blogging adjacent friends that I had. More than one ex-girlfriend and/or romantic interest came across the blog over that period. With various iterations, and url changes since then, the number of people who know that I blog and know where to look has thinned considerably.
These days I am a lot more private online (I think), writing pseudonymously though with enough identifiable information for any seriously interested person to make the connection once they have found me. The one place where the majority of readers are known to me in real life is on substack, thanks mainly to the fact that it arose as a means of staying in touch/ providing updates on my time abroad (during COVID).
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