Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name,
and they’re always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see,
our troubles are all the same.

Who thought that when you wrote about your pet squirrel’s first steps, a sea of people would share the joy! Welcome to the world of Blogging, where the whole web world is your family. Benedict Anderson’s theory of “imagined community” is best realized in today’s Blog world, where everything you feel or have an opinion about is worth a second read.

Blogging is sharing a part or a lot of yourself with a foster family of fellow readers and bloggers. How you share yourself is entirely up to you. Some people are open about their identity and reality, while others wish to talk from a certain degree of separation, from behind another acquired persona or a mask of the unknown, anonymous.

The important question is, how effective is anonymous blogging. Is it worth sharing your most intimate feelings without telling people who you really are, or is it a good thing to have a certain distance between who you are and what you write?

Anonymous blogging proves helpful when you are writing about a sensitive or controversial topic, one which has repercussions beyond the virtual world, or if your job does not allow you to express pointed opinions on any public platform. Separating your real self from the self you project or the stories or poetry you write can give a different kind of creative freedom to an individual. The feedback you receive for an anonymous piece is for the piece itself, detached from your personality or its influences. And there is also the perk of writing on many blogs simultaneously in different styles and following different thought processes.

Celebrities opt for anonymous blogging in order to satisfy their creative urges as well as to keep away from internet trolls, intrusive media persons and stalkers. Companies or salespeople opt for anonymous blogging so as to separate the various products/ services they endorse and not confuse people who might look for their name and find various conflicting results.

There are various downsides to anonymous blogging too, which are mentioned below -

1. If fame is your ultimate goal, then you’ve picked the wrong lane. Writing anonymously will only take you as far as you keep churning out creative pieces, but there is something about being able to attach a face to a write-up that attracts immediate attention of the readership. There are very slim chances of making friendships over the blogging world if no one knows your name.
2. No business can be based on anonymous blogging. If you do not attach a verifiable personality to what you write on the web, your readers and customers will not trust what is written, and investments will take a downturn.
3. Blogging entails a relationship with the reader which is difficult to acquire if your personality is kept under the wraps. Anybody would think twice about sharing their lives someone who has a brain of his/her own but no one can see where they keep it.
4. Anonymous blogging might make you feel disconnected from your own writings too. And if you have many such blogs, it is quite a task to keep track of them all and write in the exact same vein as you have been. There is a lack of consistency on several blogs by one person.

To know more, about how Anonymous blogging is different from Conventional Blogging, do visit here.

Whatever the reason to blog anonymously, make sure it is an honourable one that does not defy the trust of your readers / clients. And remember, not every invisibility cloak is as impenetrable and invincible as Harry Potter’s.