Travel Blogs are Weird

I think blogging is a little bit weird, or maybe just the type of blogging one does. I write a travel blog. It is usually a non-fiction first person narrative. This is my favorite sort of writing, but often it is very personal. I write about places where I am and activities that I am doing. Other people have travel blogs that are more like travel guides and reviews. Maybe that is more effective. I think first person narratives are more interesting though.

Back to the point. Blogs are kind of creepy. Anybody in the entire world can read my blog and look at my pictures. If you Google search my name, you will find links to my blog. This makes an easy target for stalking. Everyone, everywhere can know where I am. Sometimes people who I don’t necessarily want to know what I doing know where I am.

I have a site meter on my blog to see where people are entering my blog and what they are searching for when they find my blog. Sometimes it is disturbing to see what people are looking for. One of my most popular pages on my photo blog is under the title “trash cans and school girls.” When I posted on “Women with armpit hair,” my blog traffic instantly increased by about 50 people a day. This is weirdo stuff.

Now that I am applying for jobs I wonder how much of this employers may be looking at.