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Sunday, 1 March 2009
Meeting offline?
Over the weekend I got a really nice email from someone asking to meet me offline as an answer to the Daddy sex post from Friday. Now this has thrown up a few issues I have been thinking about, but never really tackled, such as what should be my policy of meeting guys who know the blog offline? Some bloggers, like Gaybanker will not meet. And I understand where he is coming from. On the other hand, I have met a guy from Twitter not so long ago offline. And that was a nice encounter, although we did not have sex, and I did not write about it. Of course, the issue isn't sex or no sex, but rather meeting someone and potentially writing about it. Uhm,... any ideas guys? Would you feel comfortable with meeting someone and maybe reading about it the next day?
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It's an interesting area because you could just say "it's all material" and if you suggest/agree to an offline meeting with a blogger then you can't really complain about it if the blogger then decides to write about it. I would say that the important thing is to agree terms before any meeting and treat things on a case by case basis. You should surely be able to reserve the right to write about an offline meeting if you choose to and if the person you're meeting with can't handle that then they shouldn't be asking to meet you offline
Yes, I like the case by case approach. Seems better than having a policy!
Definitely a case-by-case approach I think. It probably depends on the scenario. If it's the kind of encounter where you're not really bothered about names/chat and so forth, then it's not as if you're going to write anything more than a record of having met someone. The other party, even if they found your post, surely wouldn't have anything to complain about. It's not as if they are going to be identified. And anyway, they might find it pretty horny and come back for more! I don't see this as an issue.
But you're talking about meeting another blogger, which admittedly might be more complicated; but if they've found you via blogging, surely it's going to pretty self-evident that you might publish something, and I doubt they'd have a problem.
I get GB's policy - although I think that stems more from his decision about separating his 'real' life from his 'blogging' life than anything to do with the other person he might write about. I'd certainly think of meeting via blogging anyway.
Great blog btw...I'm a newbie, but always interesting to read what you've been up to! Give London a wave for me, huh? ;-)
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