If you can find the time to read all of it, this extremely lengthy New York Times article by a former blogger for Gawker is absolutely fascinating.

In it she recounts her private and semipublic life as an indivdual and a blogger before and after her term at Gawker, and the effects of over-sharing one’s life online. For those of you unfamiliar with it, Gawker is an incredibly powerful gossip blog about young and aspiring NYC bloggers and magazine columnists. (Think Pérez Hilton for print junkies)

For someone who’s been writing online for over four years, and currently on the job market these concerns of over-sharing online is something that enters my mind from time to time as well. The truth is only about five people regularly check my little ol’ site (which is an improvement from about a year ago when Conor was pretty much the only one who ever checked it)

Despite my obsession with blogs, both my own and others’ (which unemployment is only exacerbated) I always have to remind myself that the majority of my friends and classmates seem to only use the Internet for e-mail & Facebook, something I have a harder and harder time getting my head around. (It does however, make me feel reassured that I might actually have some skills to sell myself on during all of these job interviews.)