Who views your blog the most?

I don't know.
My blog doesn't have site meter.
In friendster, you have to pay for that facility -it would be 4.95$/month for Basic account, 8.95$ for Plus and 14.95$ for Pro one.  In return, you can view your blog's statistic, e.g. how many visitors per day, the average number of page views over the blog's lifetime, where visitors are coming from, and where they're going to.

For those who use blogspot, they can put a free site meter application and see how many times their blog being visited; the visitor's IP address, country,
length of viewing, also their entrance and exit's sites. For Citra, knowing
her visitor's profile reveals how much her weblog being considered by others.

But who view my blog? That is the question.
I thought that if more people read my blog, then it would be easy for me to
find new partner when I am single :p But it didn't.
Nevertheless, I am heartened by those who like my postings.
A young Catholic Javanese priest encouraged me to keep writing; an IT
engineer that I've never known before sent me a smile with message: "Hi, I
just see your blog," (I take that as a compliment); my best friend abroad
e-mailed me saying she found herself smiling when she read the ending of one
of my entries; and a senior in Bukit Duri high school whom I just met on
friendster told that he enjoys the stories I wrote here.

Recently I discovered that my 'big boss' is also reading my weblog.
Thankfully, he has been very supportive to me all these years ;) But ugh, I should have been more careful on writing about my officemates *looking back and forth on previous postings*.
That occurence makes me wonder about people who view my site. Besides clear commentators and technorati search, I found that my blog has 12 subscribers in Bloglines and 3 in OPML. Half of those Bloglines subscribers were made public and I only know three of them. It shorts of giving me heebie-jeebies, for a shallow reason. I usually laugh at blogsites which I consider as mere vanity fair. But I also realize that I could be other's people object of fun too.

Blog surely served well to voyeurism. The word voyeur can define someone who receives enjoyment from witnessing other people's suffering or misfortune. The voyeur does not directly interact with the object of their voyeurism (often unaware that they are being observed), instead observing the act from a distance by peeping through an opening or using aids such as binoculars, cameras, etc.

Yet, there are more things to consider regarding privacy on the internet. Jason Kolb points out, data (especially personal data) on the net can be used as a perfect analysis tool for marketers and politicians (or anyone who have enormous capital and wants to rule the world) to fulfill their own agenda. These mass data -which can be gained easily through search engines and aggregators- can be sliced and diced into something meaningful. The result would be a better
understanding of human behavior. Greg Yardley even gave a bolder warning: Stop treating the Internet like a book or newspaper and remember that whatever you're looking at is simultaneously looking at you.  As Chafid Ahmad summed up, it's a friggin' internet for crying out loud!

Comments

[Gombang]

Lah, gue baca blog ini ngintip lu dong :)

[Duy]

Stan.. Gue juga suka liat blog lo.. diitung juga donk di sitemeter.. ehhehehhehe...