I wanted to blog about my financial status and was curious if somebody ever did that and couldn't find anything on google.
So the idea is to share on a monthly basis what I have on my bank account and what I spend each month. The data would be anonymized.
Example :
I am a 30 year old software engineer living in Zurich. Since I just finished my masters I have no savings and 20k of debt.
My rent is y Swiss francs and I pay x CHF my salary is xyz.
Status alone shouldn't be a problem. A fellow blogger publishes a blogger list at Rock Star Finance where he lists nearly 1000 personal finance bloggers web sites. You can see that many of them publicly offer their numbers.
What you need to consider is whether you are anonymous, or if friends and family will know it's you. "Hey Tev, you have no debt and already saved XXX francs? Can you lend me ZZ francs to buy....?" That is the greater risk. The potential larger risk for the higher worth people is that of targeted theft.
(Interesting you couldn't find this via search, the PF blogging community is large, mature, and continuing to grow.)
In addition to the risks posed in other answers, there is a very real risk of identity theft related to publishing your exact financial details. In a broader sense, any time something is assumed private but you've made it public, you risk losing the advantage of other people assuming those details are private.
For example, credit bureaus will sometimes take additional steps to verify your identity if certain conditions are true. One of the ways they do this is by asking about financial transactions that they would expect to be private. For instance, they may ask, "how much was the monthly payment for the mortgage you had on your house three years ago?" Generally they accept answers that are close, but not exact.
Obviously, if you publish transactional details like "I spent 1,036.14 on my mortgage this month" you are putting yourself at risk for people using that information to steal your identity.
I think it's advisable to exercise a fair amount of caution when posting information about yourself online. With the advances in data aggregation efforts, information that would have been considered sufficiently anonymized in years past might no longer be sufficient to protect you from bad actors online.
For example, depending on which state, and even which county you live in, the county recorder's office may allow anyone with Internet access to freely search property records by your name. If they know approximately where you live (geolocation from the IP address that you use to post to a blog--which could be divulged if criminals compromised the blogging site) and your surname, they might be able to find your exact address if you own your home. If you have considerable wealth it could open you to targeted ransom attacks from organized criminals.
