Friday, August 15, 2008
Roaming Thoughts
So, I noticed when I blog about something completely benign, everyday sort of crap, no one is really interested, but if I so much as hint at the least little bit of drama, in the most round-a-bout way possible, people gawk in droves. Even the people who claim not to like drama and want nothing to do with it. I think they lie. They like a good train wreck, just like the next person. They're just in denial.
Which got me to contemplating the so-called "Blogosphere". Not just a little corner of it, which is really the only little world most of us are willing to venture into, like a person without a passport who can't imagine traveling to another country.
Another thing that prompted me to think about the Blogosphere was a certain celebrity blogger was recently (December 2007) quoted as saying there were more than 75,000 blogs out there. Maybe she meant, only 75,000 that really count. Or maybe, she can't count.
Or maybe, she's a complete idiot.
I have to agree with a few of my blog friends (I can't believe I just made 3 links in a row like that, because I HATE when people do that! In fact, I hate more than one link in a post. What I hate even more is when the link is to the writer's OWN fucking posts and it's not necessarily even relevant to their current post, they just want you to go back and read 6 or 7 posts or their ENTIRE life story or whatever. I came to read a post, NOT 10 posts, OK? But I digress) that the more I read, the less I like.
But, I'm that way with people, too. I'm very particular about who I hang out with. It's quality, not quantity.
Aside from the blogging-for-money factor, because people will swallow scorpions and light themselves on fire if money is involved - what is this compelling need bloggers have to "see and be seen", the "reading for the train wreck factor" (that one's hard for me, though!), the "putting on a show"? Is it because that's more interesting than everyday "real" life? Or in some cases, are people who don't have a normal "everyday life" trying to make it appear as if they do? Or wishing so hard to make it so?
"If I blog it, they will come."
If your "real" everyday life is boring and if portraying your everyday life to the internet is fabricated, whether to appear more exciting or tragic or idyllic, then where is the happy medium?
Are we really story-tellers? Or liars? Or just plain delusional, thinking that someone else might find us interesting?
What do you think?
And what do you like to see me blog about?
Which got me to contemplating the so-called "Blogosphere". Not just a little corner of it, which is really the only little world most of us are willing to venture into, like a person without a passport who can't imagine traveling to another country.
Another thing that prompted me to think about the Blogosphere was a certain celebrity blogger was recently (December 2007) quoted as saying there were more than 75,000 blogs out there. Maybe she meant, only 75,000 that really count. Or maybe, she can't count.
Or maybe, she's a complete idiot.
I have to agree with a few of my blog friends (I can't believe I just made 3 links in a row like that, because I HATE when people do that! In fact, I hate more than one link in a post. What I hate even more is when the link is to the writer's OWN fucking posts and it's not necessarily even relevant to their current post, they just want you to go back and read 6 or 7 posts or their ENTIRE life story or whatever. I came to read a post, NOT 10 posts, OK? But I digress) that the more I read, the less I like.
But, I'm that way with people, too. I'm very particular about who I hang out with. It's quality, not quantity.
Aside from the blogging-for-money factor, because people will swallow scorpions and light themselves on fire if money is involved - what is this compelling need bloggers have to "see and be seen", the "reading for the train wreck factor" (that one's hard for me, though!), the "putting on a show"? Is it because that's more interesting than everyday "real" life? Or in some cases, are people who don't have a normal "everyday life" trying to make it appear as if they do? Or wishing so hard to make it so?
"If I blog it, they will come."
If your "real" everyday life is boring and if portraying your everyday life to the internet is fabricated, whether to appear more exciting or tragic or idyllic, then where is the happy medium?
Are we really story-tellers? Or liars? Or just plain delusional, thinking that someone else might find us interesting?
What do you think?
And what do you like to see me blog about?
