On 5/1/07, Leslye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > with the question did I think that vlogging was far behind. Have any > female vloggers had threatening comments or responses?
Aside from the many, many people who are very concerned that my penis is not large enough, I have not had many threats or disparaging comments. Early in my text blog days, I had at least one vaguely threatening exchange with someone when I told him that I would not give him an invitation code to join LiveJournal. By the end of the exchange, he was making vague threats that I didn't know what he could do. Honestly, I find that vigorous, no-exception, outright blatant censorship of these kinds of asshats is the very best way to stop them cold in their tracks. When it comes to my blog, I AM QUEEN and nobody gets to make me feel like less. > I have always > been mindful of the balance of maintaining my privacy while still > vlogging about my life (however sporadically) - but video is still a > very personal and revealing medium.... I've stopped trying to keep my online identity (Mortaine) and my real-life identity (Stephanie Bryant) separate. It didn't work very well, and was just confusing when I'd need to use a personal email account to contact someone. In video, I just do what I want to do, so long as it respects the privacy of others around me. I don't vlog children without both their and their parents' consent, for example, even if they're in a public space where otherwise I could claim fair use. If the Internet were a real-world workplace, the kinds of things I've seen even professionals say to one another would get them fired. I just kind of file it away in my brain as "note to self: don't ever enter into any transaction with this person." I frankly don't have time or bandwidth to work or play with people who treat others with so little respect. The bigger problem I have are actually vloggers I meet in meat-space. This may be a local phenomenon, but in the Bay Area, I've had to interact with more than one videoblogger who gave me the creeps, fortunately (but not really coincidentally) always in public events. Since I do presentations and speaking gigs on videoblogging now, I tend to attract more of the "gum on your shoe" kind of guys showing up to my events. Not much I can do about it, except rigorously maintain my personal boundaries and make sure there's always at least one or more trusted people attending the events with me. -- Stephanie Bryant Author, Videoblogging for Dummies [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mortaine.com/
