blog-double

I have this friend (let's call him/her "zak", to protect his/her privacy), who recently became acquainted with the blog-world (not much later than me). Zak was really excited, but just as zak started posting, zak decided that zak was not sure zak wanted people to be able to reach the stuff zak posted. I immediately suggested the remedy: screw the blog stuff, get a piece of paper and write it just for yourself. This was not satisfactory. Zak wants to continue posting, but in such a way that noone will be able to arrive to zak's stuff. Apparently zak is excited by the idea of zak's thoughts floating in cyberworld, and particularly turned on by the idea that someone could accidentally stumble onto zak's writings, without knowing who's they are, and without zak ever knowing that someone read zak's stuff.

I find this very interesting, it's like a schizophrenic behaviour, being at the same time excited by the idea of disclosing your inner thoughts and soul, but insisting on prohibiting others to sample it (except by total chance).

Like that movie, body-double... ("relax, don't do it!...")