FROM THE PREVIOUS..

I received a comment from Anonymous barely an hour my entry was posted out.

GEEZ!

Thanks for the compliment, erh, if it wasn't mocking at my contradiction - which I only realized after reading your valuable comment.
People, strangers, read my blogs HERE, too.

You get the idea now? I couldn't bring myself to write my inner feelings and opinions in Multiply.com because I fear of being commented by people in there. And to recap, I dun like to be prejudged by people who dun really know me.

Yet there's an option for 'comments' for every entry I posted here. And I remember it was my very own decision to allow it!

Well I guess there won't be any 'safe haven' in webspace. I was wrong in my thinking.

Anonymous gave me some thoughts. Why am I entrusting blogspot to put my life's secrets than Multiply.com when they are 1) webspaces, 2) public space for peeps to write and read others' ?

Okie here's what I think:
Multiply.com is built for social cum professional networks. I believe their foundation relies on this and to make it work they add in features like Profiles (for people to get a basic idea of who you are), Photos (pictures speak a thousand words), Journals (like blogspot), Recipes (I like this, everyone can become Jamie Oliver at last), Events (just like eCircles, a mini event mgmt) and you can form Multiply groups when you have different kinds of contacts in your list.
Thus the name Multiply. You add a contact into your list, and you will be linked to his/her circle of friends in his/her list. Just like Friendster (but in my opinion it has become a dating site).

My point is (yes I'm coming to this, be patient!), there's a culture in Multiply.com. I can't give a good directive but from what I observe, anyone who writes an entry will receive comments from their friends...aquaintances and strangers. 90% effective. And from personal experience (after posting only 2 entries todate), those who read my journal will click on my profile to check me out. Some even tried to add me as their contact - without even a message sent to me, to acknowledge their existence. Multiply.com also allows us to snoop; I can find out who has been reading my entries and who has been checking me out.
So a certain pressure has been formed. If I write anything that delves deep into my personal life, a lot of people would read, and without even knowing me in reality. Worse, they are linked by my distant friend/aquaintance's friend's friend's gf or friend's son's colleague, etc. Its a mass network you're looking at here. I wouldn't want to be recognized on the streets based on my 'deeper-than-personal' entries in Multiply.com.

Now for this particular space.
So far, only my close friends and Cliff know about it. I can't stop strangers from reading them but I have nothing to lose. I dunno you, vice versa. What you read is for your personal indulgence, leave the contents back to where you have read them and that's it. We have no links and no closure.

I had deliberated in opting out 'comments' in my future entries. My initial motive in placing it was to give my friends and Cliff some rights to speak back on things I had spitted out, which they may have different opinions. And, it's usually when they are involved in the issues that will make them speak out. It's another communication bridge between us.
I didn't expect other people will make use of it, seriously. But that doesn't mean I dun welcome any. Unless I receive negative ones. Peeps, you have freedom of speech but do not be abusive and no intrusion of privacy. Like this particular one, getting it from Anonymous sparked off another entry from me. He/She had came uninvited with no 'weapons' armed and helped to realize my mistake. I like that. Besides, responding to the comment by writing it out helps to convince my thoughts.
Thank you.

Peace out :)