Blogs of people you used to know
I have to say, I usually don’t feel too much like a voyeur when I read the blogs of strangers, but reading the blogs of people I used to know seems wrong, maybe even amoral. I feel oddly guilty, yet I can’t bring myself to stop.
For whatever reason, this person decided to end their association with you, and reading their blog offers a personal window into their life that they never intended for you. The general public maybe, but not former friends.
It’s a particular problem when said friend’s blog is hosted in WordPress and is improperly configured, and you know WordPress better than just about anybody. The urge to contact this former friend and politely suggest how they might improve their blog in the tiniest of ways is damn impossible to resist. And yet you imagine it’s that urge to help (but also, on some level, to prove that you know more than your former friend) that probably resulted in the rift to begin with.
