 Welcome
to That's
Awfully Personal, an opportunity for blog writers and readers to
reveal a little more about themselves than might normally happen during
the daily blogging process, and hence get to know each other a bit
better. It's a little like the late, great Friday Five, but more
challenging. Each week our Awfully
Personal Panel will post one or more new questions for you to
answer on your blog, or in the comment space below if you don't have a
blog.
For more on how That's Awfully
Personal works, please see the How
to Play section below. Here is this week's Awfully Personal
Question:
It's 2014, and you have a spouse (official or common law) and a child (adopted, if you like). The scenario outlined in Salon.com
last week has come true: Tiny, anonymous, cheap, quality, long-range
wireless stick-on video-cameras are the newest craze, and kids are
sticking them everywhere and watching real
reality TV instead of the commercial kind. Everyone spies on everyone,
now, there is no more privacy, and people have just gotten used to it
-- there are also no more lost children, backroom deals, police or
spousal abuse, or secrets. Question: Would you be happy if your spouse
wanted you to wear one at all times "just for your own protection"?
Would you want your spouse and child to wear one? Assuming its source
couldn't be traced, where might you plant these tiny hidden cameras to
find out what you'd always wanted to know/hear/see, or to just to
satisfy your curiosity.
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How to Play "That's Awfully
Personal":
- Subscribe to (i.e. join) this Yahoo group
to get the weekly question(s) sent to you automatically by e-mail each
Friday.
- On Saturday, or whenever you get around to it, post one of
the questions and your answer to it on your weblog or web site.
- Then come back here (you may want to bookmark this site)
and click the 'comment' button under the question(s) of the week. If
it's your first time, you'll be asked to enter your e-mail and the URL
of your blog or website. Then just note that your answer is up. Other
readers will then be able to read it on your site by simply clicking on
your name in the comments thread. You can check out other people's
answers at the same time. Or, if you don't have a blog or website, you
can post your answer right in the comment box.
- If you have questions or observations about "That's Awfully
Personal", or would like to become part of our Awfully Personal Panel that selects
the weekly questions, e-mail
us.
- If you have a suggestion for Question of the Week, e-mail us and our Panel
will review it and, if selected, they will acknowledge you as the
author with a link to your blog. Questions should ideally be
challenging, so that the answers will be revealing (when answered
honestly). But this isn't Truth or Dare -- we want people to want to
answer honestly and to have to think a bit before they do.
- "That's Awfully Personal" was developed when The Friday
Five closed down. The questions are more thought-provoking and, well,
more personal than most
Friday Five questions. If they're too serious for you, here's
a group that is resurrecting The Friday Five, which you might enjoy
instead.
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August 13, 2004
