That's what I was asked by a person of a certain age (i.e., older than I) recently. I was offering advice on beginning a blog containing posts about a historical personage. The question, as I recall it, was whether you could address the reader directly in such posts. For example, "dear reader, Jane Doe III was the most important person in Anytown during 1840-1860. You need to understand her life because it offers an example of how leaders today should act."
My response was, of course: in the blogging world there are no rules. You can do anything and everything. Given the person to whom I was responding, mentioning the End User Licensing Agreement Google has us agree to seemed superfluous.
This question measures the gap between the world in which I and the person were raised and the world today. I can't imagine people in their teens and twenties today asking the same question. Their world is much fuller of opportunities, of possibilities, and much emptier of rules governing personal behavior with others, whether on the Internet or in person.
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