the information privilege

 I read a lot of blogs/journals/diaries - whatever they're called now, and many of the authors have children.  One of the ongoing conundrums revolves around how gownup children will feel about the whole world being privy to their toilet training, birth stories, and general details about themself.  I don't have much to say about that - only that I suppose it will depend on how each child reacts when they grow up. Some will hate it some will love it and I suspect some won't care.

The real fortune that these children will have is privileged access to information about their parent(s) that most children never have.  Mothers and Fathers who reveal their inner self, log it, post it, offer it up for digestion by others.  An archive of information, history and insight into their parents, that without blogs they may never have had.

Such an amazing gift.

posted by: blytheswideshut at August 05, 2005 07:29 | link | comments |

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