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Sylvia Plath: Mother of the Modern Blog 693 Views
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The concept of using a Facebook profile as a personal diary began with Sylvia Plath. Sorry, Martha, but we really don't need to know that you had oatmeal for breakfast...again.
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Thank you We sneak sylvia plath allah shmoop we all
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have that one annoying friend who suffers from chronic overshare
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itis symptoms include play by play description of vowel movements
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and a knack for turning innocent chats into something your
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anti virus software tries to block Sure you could ditch
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her and get with a new crowd but then you'd
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miss out on all the juicy stuff Well sylvia plath
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practically invented the concept of tm i sex madness drugs
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No topic was off limits All that controversial subject matter
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was a big deal during the conservative nineteen fifties and
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sixties but maybe she was onto something with her tell
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all style Because these days it seems like oversharing is
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where it's at plenty of people are taking up a
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pen or a keyboard and putting their thoughts and feelings
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out there for all to seek often in the form
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of a blogged in plath influence the personal blog's of
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today Well confessional poets like glass like to shed light
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on the ugly truths of human life Instead of choosing
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family friendly subjects like nature and patriotism or hiding behind
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a protagonist blast took aim at the topics everyone else
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Was too chicken to write about Lady lazarus for example
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takes on suicide and holocaust imagery and daddy consent domestic
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abuse Other authors might hide their dirty laundry but flat
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proudly wears it to work fast forward a few decades
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and we can see the effect she might have had
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on future generations of writers Several high profile blogged writers
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of chief semi stardom by sharing their personal business with
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the world weatherby armstrong the author of deuce dot com
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discusses hot button topics like religion post partum depression and
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her lame co workers or actually ex coworkers That last
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part kinda got her fired Been slippy is another popular
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open diary on the daily insanity of motherhood Now don't
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you feel bad for ducking out of mom's kiss this
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morning What do you think seeing a connection There are
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tons of logs out there like this Did plast start
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a trend by inviting in noisy parkers or would we
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have eventually gotten there without her shmoop amongst yourself and 00:02:12.95 --> [endTime] share you've got mail
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