Jack is taking down his RSS feeds for his detailed “vents” and going back to the regular RSS posting. This had me thinking.

How much of what goes on our minds should we put on our blog? Should we include random details throughout the day? A summary at the end of the day? Maybe a more thorough post every week?

When I switched over to Micro.blog, I started to post more often. This blog is very easy to interact with, so posting several times a day comes as second nature. As a matter of fact, I’m sitting at the park right now dictating this post into my iPhone. I might look at it later and edit some of the text, but I don’t feel I have to. This is a stream of thought, and I believe people who read this post feel the same way.

If you take a look at my old blog, you’ll see that most of my posts there tend to be longer, with more information and links. I still write down information like this, but not in this blog - at least, not often.

That leads me to another question: how much should we reveal about ourselves? Where is the line beyond which things become too personal or too private? There are a couple of things I said on this blog I wouldn’t have thought of saying a couple of years ago. Times change, life changes, and with those, our confidence and ability to express ourselves.

There are only two kinds of readers of this blog: those that are interested and those who are not interested. Interested readers will stick around and may leave a comment; those who don’t will skip this post. This is an oversimplification to a degree, but I do think this includes roughly 80% of the people who come here.

There’s nothing here I wouldn’t tell my grandma, as the saying goes. Likewise, I try not to be negative in general, and if I talk about someone specifically, I won’t use their name. That’s just common courtesy. As long as I do that, I think I’m in the clear.

With all that said, writing opinions in the open and understanding what goes and what we’re comfortable with takes time and practice. It’s easy for me to say the things I said above after more than a decade of writing different blogs.

What about you? Do you have a line of how much you share and to what degree? How did you decide, or maybe you haven’t, maybe you’re stuck?