Does My Blog Reveal My Personality?

I just finished reading an article from the magazine, The Atlantic. The article was by Andrew Sullivan who was commenting on blogging. He said that blogging reveals a lot about a person. Because blogging tends to be written on the fly without much organization to it, people tend to allow more viewers to get to know them. Blogging tends to be more conversational, allbeit, a little lobsided. Like right now I'm hogging the airwaves while you're sitting there reading. So, I do hope you'll leave a comment so this becomes a dialogue rather than a monologue.

For anyone who is familiar with personality typing (if you're not, be sure to visit my website at http://www.advantagediets.com/ and click on the right side "About personality typing"), two of the eight preferences that make up type are Extravert (the spelling is that of Carl Jung, the psychologist who developed psychological type) and Introvert. While personality typing includes more than the dictionary definition of these terms, Extraverts do tend to share more of themselves than Introverts. As you read various people's blogs, think about whether you think the person is an Extravert or an Introvert.

Extroverts are more willing to share facts about themselves. Introverts are often harder to get to know. Yet, it's possible that through a blog you'll get to know an Introvert better than you might if you were to have face-to-face contact. Blogging provides some with a safer environment to express themselves.

I'm an ENFJ. People who know me will say that I allow them to get to know me very well because I tend to share a lot about myself. They say I have integrity, that they can trust me. I'd like to think they feel this way just because that's who I am. They know I would never hurt them. But maybe it's my being an Extravert with a greater willingness to open up. I wonder if Introverts with their difficulty in opening up leave questions in people's minds about who they really are.

The challenge I have with blogging is the willingness to post it without checking it over and over again. As a writer of many books, I know how important it is to organize my thoughts before even starting to put anything down. With a blog, I can experience free thinking, allowing thoughts to come in and get recorded without figuring too deeply on how it fits into the whole scheme of the written piece. Another part of my personality is the _NF_, the idealist. Idealists are perfectionists squared. Not only do we want everything perfect, but will always believe something can be better. With blogging, I'm hoping to experience a sense of free flow without too much rewriting. Although, I have to admit that I did reread this piece before I push the "post" button. Maybe one day I'll trust that it's good enough on the first writing.

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