Alison recently wrote about [bluishorange.com] being weirded out that her coworkers have discovered her weblog and may be reading about everything she has done or talked about in the last few years. Having maintained a weblog almost as long as she has (I started in 2000), I knew exactly how she felt.
Earlier this year, I started searching for a job, and felt very strange when I showed up for interviews, and it seemed like many people knew all about me. They would reference things that I had written on this weblog, and the realization that they had read it was startling. Let me tell you, that is very disconcerting.
Of course, I always knew that interviewers finding this would be a possibility. And over the past few years, that has always been in the back of my mind. But I don't know if I was really prepared for that reality. During an interview, I should have been concentrating appearing to be professional, and sounding like I knew what I was talking about, etc. But in reality, I was trying to remember which particularly embarassing drinking incidents I posted to my weblog, and what the probability was that they had read them.
I'm pretty sure that not all of my coworkers know about this (and thankfully, most would probably be bored out of their minds if they read this anyway). But every once in a while, they ask me a question about something, and I know that I have posted an explanation of the answer somewhere on my website, and I have to decide whether I really want more people to know about my website and my weblog or not.
Anyway, I'm just saying that I know exactly how she feels.
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