Couple Blogging
13 December 2007
Something which surprised me back in April when I first started the hunt to add more Australian blogs to the blogs.com.au index was that I saw a number of “couple blogs”. These are blogs where two people in a relationship would set-up a blog so they could both record everything about their relationship. I had no idea these existed.
Even though I’m a blogging evangelist who believes people, large companies, small businesses, charities, journalists, teachers and politicians should all blog. I felt less than enthusiastic about these blogs because there was something about couple blogging that felt a little too personal to be announced to the world and archived. You know, the Internet being forever and all. It just made me question if things didn’t work out in that relationship whether both people would want that recorded online in 1, 5 or 10 years time.
The recent example of a New York tech couple, Jakob Lodwick and Julia Allison, who set up JakobandJulia.com, made me doubt my original feelings towards the subject. Right up until the point it exploded in a ugly mess of nasty posts making the cynical jaded bitter commitment phob inside of me rejoice that couple blogging really was fraught with danger.
Even though it was started with clear boundaries via a Memorandum of Understanding and things blogged along quite well for the first two weeks. Cracks started to appear when Julia ironically posted that she was annoyed about being informed of things in her boyfriend’s life only via his blog. It then went downhill very quickly with unpleasant back and forth posts.
It was interesting to watch from afar but had that uncomfortable feeling like having to overhear couples bitching at each other in the line at the supermarket. Clearly I could have avoided it by not adding it to my feed reader but that would mean I would not be an observer of sensational subjects. Still, I’m hopping these blogs doesn’t infiltrate into the blogosphere in any large number. I just would not have the time to voyeuristically keep up with them all 
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It was never going to be dull, that’s for sure. I agree with you though, some things probably shouldn’t be made public to that extent.
Yeah, relationships and people’s personal lives can be difficult enough without making everything for public consumption. I’ve had one person on Tumblr say that it could work especially if done anonymously or or under pseudonyms.
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