The time has come, maybe?
I’m thinking of starting a Facebook fan page for my website… I’m still unsure since I don’t know how many people will “Like” it and how it may help undesirable people to find this website.
I think that I should further explain the part about the undesirable people…
As many of you may know, I was raised as a Jehova’s Witness (JW). The JWs are a VERY closed community where (to my experience) everyone is in every body’s business and what not. I’m not a practitioner nor am I baptized by this religion so technically I am not one of them, however, my parents are very involved and it may cause them problems if the wrong people caught wind of this website.
Once I took pictures at a gathering, so I put them up in PhotoBucket (not even Facebook) for everyone to download them and they told my father that I should remove them as they were “causing people to manipulate them and make them into homosexual images”.
I really don’t care what they say about me, after all I rarely publish stuff about the JWs (I only answered publicly a question from my friend and I post the outfits I wear to their meetings sometimes) and my parents know about my blog. It just bothers me that my blog might bring problems to them, seeing that they are really attached to the religion and I’d hate for me to be the cause of that.
But on the other hand… Do I really want that “fear” to dictate what I do with my digital identity? I mean, it’s enough that I already do most (read everything but Facebook) of my online stuff with a pseudonym, now I can’t even market myself because of what a bunch of irrelevant people might say?
It would really hurt me if my parents got some bad things said because of me (we have enough with my sister’s shenanigans which shall not be discussed here), but I really need to start putting myself out there. To be honest, I’m more than ready to get out of the “acceptable” bubble and explore more things. With college ending this December, I think that it’s best if I start doing it myself before I’m thrust with no warning into the real world.
What do you think? I know that I’m going to end up doing what I think it’s best, but it means a lot to me to read your opinion.
ETA: Speaking of putting myself out there, you can now see some of my web design /development work over at Hire Me! I do everything from coding, graphics, adding cool fonts to websites and choosing cool WordPress plugins.
ETA2: I have my own Facebook Fan Page, go like it!! You can also see my portfolio and see me post occasional trilingual gibberish :D.
Kisses,
Julie.
on July 29th, 2010 at 3:16 pm Said:
Pues si lo que quieres es ponerla pues pooooooooooonla, no pasa naaaaaaaaaada. Pero si no pues tampoco pasa naaaaaaaada.(por cierto que te saliste muy guapa a pasear a Max en el post pasado XD)
n_n /
on July 29th, 2010 at 3:17 pm Said:
Gracias Pakito!!!!
Pss si, igual y nadamás ando de paranoica y son mis nervios verdá?
on July 29th, 2010 at 4:50 pm Said:
I’m in a similar dilemma…I’m thinking of returning to Facebook and advertising my blog a bit more, but I don’t want everyone to find out about it and I’m pretty sure if I use facebook, they will. So I think I’m going to stay away a bit longer. Nothing as delicate as your situation, I just don’t want some people I know reading my blog haha.
Good on you for doing it! Be strong =)
on July 29th, 2010 at 4:52 pm Said:
The way that I’m doing it is that I’m not advertising it on my personal FB wall, I’m just on Twitter (which has little to none of my facebook friends in it) and on the blog itself. Maybe even email for the fanpage but nothing explicit on my personal Facebook page.
on July 30th, 2010 at 6:27 am Said:
It is quite disturbing that people would actually get into your business like that and get your parents in trouble. I think go ahead and do it, anyway.