Never blog drunk; never blog angry.
Have you ever written something that you regretted enough to erase it from your blog?
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January 25, 2015 at 1:48 pm
As I’ve just started my blog crusades, I can say no, but as social media as a whole, I’ve learned well to take the “step away from the keyboard” motto seriously. So here’s to that!
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January 26, 2015 at 10:34 pm
That is an excellent quote: “step away from the keyboard.” I don’t know that blogging is worse than the trouble one can get into with only 140 characters – I suppose it depends on the individual talent. Or lack thereof. 😛
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January 25, 2015 at 4:02 am
One angry rant I blogged, I do regret, though I was well within my rights to say what I did. But, yeah, I was way too angry. I should have cooled down first. I left it up and owned up to it, though, and amended it with an explanation. I figured if I took it down, people would make up what I said and embellish all to hell. A hater tried to do just that, but me leaving it up thwarted that heifer. Heh. That taught me not to post when I’m pissed unless I’ve slept on it…
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January 28, 2015 at 3:03 pm
Quite the opposite of not going to bed angry, isn’t it? 😛 Thanks for sharing, Stephe. 🙂
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January 24, 2015 at 11:40 pm
I posted one evening after a very bad day at work. I think the post started with something like ” I’m in a very dark place when it comes to how I feel about nursing right now…”
Two days later I went on an interview that went well. I drove home and thankfully had some recall of the verbiage of the post. I had never loved the edit button as much as I did that night!
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January 28, 2015 at 3:02 pm
Haha! All hail the edit button! Thanks for sharing, Susan. 🙂
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January 24, 2015 at 5:29 pm
Yep, I may have but fortunately usually keep it as a draft…or maybe like Charles, I don’t remember. When I am in a lot of physical pain my muse may get carried away so writing in poetry form seems safer.
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January 28, 2015 at 3:01 pm
Yep, I’ve been known to thinly disguise a rant or a drunken ramble in poetry. 🙂
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January 28, 2015 at 5:41 pm
You’re too funny, Linda:)
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January 28, 2015 at 5:46 pm
I try. 🙂
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January 24, 2015 at 1:18 pm
Yes and yes and I have had to remove them!!
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January 28, 2015 at 3:00 pm
It’s just soooo tempting!
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January 24, 2015 at 12:49 pm
Tipsy yes, angry no. I’ve deleted the post about my giantesse, as I think it generated too much traffic, perhaps stemming from the bikini-clad woman at the end.
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January 24, 2015 at 12:55 pm
I missed that one! Ugh! (Not that I’m interested in bikini-clad women, but a giantesse? That sounds intriguing!
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January 24, 2015 at 1:10 pm
My middle daughter is 12, and looks 16+. It started when she was 6 months and outgrew everything. At three she looked six, at six she looked ten, and so on. She’s very tall, and it’s been a battle to clothe her since she was ten. I call her my giantesse.
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January 24, 2015 at 10:05 am
I don’t drink so that doesn’t apply to me. I have written posts when ill with a fever that I’ve had to edit the h— out of after the fever broke. I’ve written posts while angry. Those I’ve deleted while they were still drafts.
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January 24, 2015 at 10:19 am
Yes! That’s another one – brain fog brought on by a cold. I usually can’t write at all when I have that. And yeah, I’m with you on the deleted drafts. Good idea. 🙂
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January 24, 2015 at 6:05 am
Drunk not, angry, yes. And these were good posts as it came straight form the gut. I edited it a bit though to not offend anyone; and focused on the issue instead of the person.
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January 24, 2015 at 10:17 am
It’s all about the editing though. When the heat of the moment causes us to hit the publish button hastily it often ends in disaster. Good that you allowed your cooler self to take over. 🙂
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January 24, 2015 at 12:11 am
“Never blog drunk, never blog angry.” That alone got me to read your post. I’ve never done that on my blog as I’m to obsessive compulsive with reading and re-reading everything I post but on Facebook, I’ll admit, I hane. The sting of reading my words with a calm, sober mind the next day has cured me, I hope, of that.
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January 24, 2015 at 10:15 am
Facebook and Twitter are also very dangerous for that indeed. Ask so many celebrities and politicians… 😛
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January 23, 2015 at 9:18 pm
No, I don’t think so. Once it’s published, it’s there to stay, for better or for worse.
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January 23, 2015 at 9:43 pm
Yep, me too. …except for once. 😛
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January 23, 2015 at 8:25 pm
Yes, but don’t remember.
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January 23, 2015 at 8:26 pm
…which may have been the whole point of deleting it?
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