Blogs can bite.

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BLOGS CAN BITE
Just ask the people who have lost their jobs after being a little too candid online

By Steve Johnson
Tribune Internet critic
Published August 15, 2005

The stories they tell are almost always the same.

I was just doing it to amuse my friends.

I didn't really think about the consequences of everyone in the world being able to see it.

I was entranced by this new technology.

But that's after the fact, after their blogging has cost them a job, a relationship or, at minimum, a lot of time spent explaining what they wrote.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0508150225aug15,1,5525665.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

[wli]

1. clearly a scare tactic to discourage blogging

Well, I'm scared.

[AuntieM1957]

2. Every time we put it out there it's watched somewhere

so, we should be careful - but not afraid.