Bloggers beware - it is nasty out there

Blogs are everywhere, with these "web logs" (hence the combined name "blogs") increasingly, the place where young people go to bare their souls, to vent, to gossip. And often they do so with unabashed fervor and little self-editing, posting their innermost thoughts for any number of Web surfers to see.

Some of these "bloggers" are finding that putting one`s life online can have a price, though. A few of them have been fired for writing about work on their personal online journals, since many companies have rules regarding disclosure of details about their operations. Maya Marcel-Keyes, daughter of conservative politician Alan Keyes, discovered the trickiness of providing personal details online when frankness on her blog about being a lesbian became an sticking-point during her father`s recent run for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois (Mr. Keyes made anti-gay statements during the campaign).

Experts say such embarassing incidents belong to a growing trend in which these in-depth and frank outpourings online are causing personal and public dramas, often taking on a life of their own they wouldn`t have if the Web had not come along and turned enterprising individuals into self-publishers.

                                 

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