Safe Blogging (that's a thing?)

In a world where it's so easy to put one's most personal thoughts, feelings, moments, and information on the internet, there has to be some suggestions on how one might keep themselves safe. This digital world has a tendency to become a cesspool of verbal and mental vomit, and when some of that stuff gets out it can be very damaging to the people involved. There are sites, all over the web, that are dedicated to the safety of those, such as myself, who post to blogs, social networking site, wikis, etc. One such site on Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/security/family-safety/blogging.aspx gave suggestions to parents on how they can protect their children on the web, but it also had some advice for bloggers.

1. NEVER offer any personal information.
 According to the site personal information would include a last name, mailing address, social, phone numbers, full names of friends, usernames, ages, and birthdays. I would go far enough to say whatever one doesn't want strangers to know, should be left off the web. Scary people keep getting smarter, it's sad, but it's getting easier for them to find things they can use to make life difficult. If it should not be known by strangers, leave it off a blog or make the blog private.
2. Privatize Blog
http://digitalethics.org/resources/best-practices-for-bloggers-dimensions-for-consideration/, another safety site, says that depending on the content one may even wish to make their entire blog invisible to the populace. This seems to be a good way to keep private information private, but the best way is to just not post it.
3. Keep Things Positive (http://www.microsoft.com/security/family-safety/blogging.aspx)
Essentially, one may complain or be angry about something, but one might want to avoid slander or the personal attack of fellow persons. One never knows who may someday look at their blog. It could be a future employer, a teacher, a friend, a spouse, or (heaven forbid) the subject of the slander and attack. Anyway it's looked at, none of those scenarios sound all that appealing when their seriously considered.

I never know who reads this blog, or who will someday read it, but I do know that it's safer to only post what I want other people to know. Anything else could be detrimental to my well-being.