What do I have the right to post?
A few moments ago, I dashed out a massive, lengthy blog post about all the despondent things I've been thinking lately. While I was originally going to publish it publicly, I realized that it was just a long, pointless rant, and there was no way anyone else could ever derive any value from it. And if someone clicked on it expecting something thought-out with a point, I would just have wasted their time; made them uncomfortable with the post contents, even. So I set it to be not discoverable.
But that made me wonder. At what point exactly do I become justified in posting something? At least for me, the whole point of blogging is to share things, and be open to internet strangers in a way you never could with people you know in person. Must posting take place only when what I want to say, and what everyone might want to read, coincide? Is it okay for me to release an article onto the Discovery feed when it was written entirely for my own benefit?
I don't really know. I plan to maintain my policy of setting purely personal posts as undiscoverable, and publicly publishing thoughts like this that I'd like reading from others. But I do wonder...it'd be so nice to be able to just unload my personal troubles out there sometimes.
PS: This is the rant I'm talking about, in case you're somehow interested.