Swearing on a blog is like blog design. You notice when bad words and bad design are there, but you don’t really notice if the words are all “good” or the design is good. Swearing and blog design are also similar in that they are a personal choice.

I rarely, if ever, choose to use foul language on my website for three main reasons.

1. It’s not professional. It is not the image I want to portray, and it isn’t my style. There are some wildly successful bloggers who could put a crusty old rancher back on his heels with their language. I follow a few of them, and I respect that their style of writing is different than mine. But I still think it is unprofessional.
2. My mom reads my blog. She does some of the time, anyway, and she’s not a user of swear words. Out of respect for her and all my other readers who do get offended by swearing, I choose not to use it on my blog. Have you ever heard someone get offended by the absence of bad language?
3. The potential of future tiny humans. This is my biggest reason I choose not to swear on my blog. Should all the blades of grass on this planet shift to the right and I actually create my own tiny humans, I want this blog to be something they eventually turn to for history, for learning, for knowing their mum a little better than before. I don’t want my unborn tiny humans to read post after post filled with bad words they’ve been told not to say.

I’m not a perfect person. In the height of frustration, stress and anger, I can string together a bucket of curse words. My tongue sometimes gets the better of me, but in writing I have the opportunity to edit what I say before sharing it with the world.

I choose to edit any curse words, and that’s why I don’t swear on my blog. How about you? Curse or non?

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