Just told my girlhood friend she should start blogging and she asked me a lot of questions about it. A LOT. All my answers were: I don't know. I'm new.
She was concerned about who would read it and if they would post mean comments. I told her it's anonymous unless she shares her link. And as far as the comments go, you may have to read them but they won't be published unless you okay them. "You're tough," she said.
I told her -- and I don't know, I'm new -- that it's kind of like self-publishing, that I don't tell my personal friends about it because I wouldn't want to end up writing to someone in particular. I like to think of any purely accidental readers as being people I would like if I knew them and then call it a day on reader profiling. Selah.