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June 11 |
Bored yet? |
What constitutes a “boring” blog post? Angel over at theQueenB posted about how blog entries bore her and I got to thinking. I suppose I am a bit more curious as to how many people blog for an audience and how many use their blog as the whole idea was originally intended for: online journaling. Sure, blogging has become an everyday thing. Everyone and their grandmother’s pet dog FiFi has one now. Do people really feel the need to vie for attention? Or is it something else? Do people blog to share information? Do people blog to share their opinions with the almighty “delete comment” button at their fingertips giving them the courage to be an ignorant mule?
All of the above and more.
I have been around the blogging community since before it was CALLED “blogging”. Wow. I feel incredibly old right now. But seriously. Way back when it was simply online journaling and an easy way of creating a tech-based archive of your life. Who even keeps a handwritten journal nowadays? “What do you mean you didn’t know about ___?? Didn’t you read my blog?!” Now, granted, we live in the age of Twitter and Facebook, with phone companies enabling us to keep in constant contact via social media applications and the web at any given moment. Have a short update? Tweet it! Want to share something for people to like and comment on? Facebook it! Lives are no longer really private and I think a big part of that is because people get a taste of what it is like to be a celebrity. There are people out there who are, get this, “famous for being famous”. What?
I guess my whole point, to those who have read this far, is that I could really care less if someone is entertained by what I have to say. If they don’t like something, they are more than welcome to exit out of it. It won’t hurt my feelings. It won’t make me change my ways. I am not here to entertain. Maybe later, should I feel like it. But it is not my focus here. Here I am free to do as I please simply because it pleases me to do so.
– Because I am awesome.
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2 Comments2 Responses to "Bored yet?"
Midnight June 12, 2010 @ 2:01 AM
hm, as you know I don’t blog unless it is for rpg purposes, because I don’t feel the need, it is not my usual way to vent. I don’t read blogs unless they are from close friends and then I don’t care if it is mundane or not because it is important to them. Important enough for them to write describing or telling everyone everything they could, so I read it and gather how they are feeling. yea any post even starting with the words sex would make me skip it over really quickly. But if I blog I would do it for myself and just laugh if someone said they didn’t like it, they can always stop reading.
Okay there was no sex in this blog and that makes me sad, but it did make me laugh and THINK so that works as well.
I guess I should add that to my decree, huh? Blogs that make me think.
*runs off to edit decree*
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