blogs.
***************DISCLAIMER***************
IF YOU ARE A BORING PERSON THERE
IS A VERY REAL CHANCE THIS POST
WILL OFFEND YOU.
So, as I said in my original post at the top of my "blog," I would not be attempting to make a typical blog as is ordinarily understood. This will not be a journal of my day's activities; it is a collection of funny and/or witty thoughts. If you don't think it's funny and/or witty, don't read it.
That being said, people that DO publish the typical version of blogs are usually appallingly boring and should refrain from doing so. If you write a blog and it in any way resembles this passage, you are boring and you should stop writing - "I went to the store today to get shampoo but they were out of the kind I usually get so I had to get another kind. Jordan is coming today and I CAN'T WAIT! He's so nice, I think he might actually be the one." How fucking deluded do you have to be to think that this kind of noise about your daily activities would be even minutely amusing to anyone? In how many aspects of rational thinking do you have to be broken to think this resembles writing fit for public consumption?
If you read that last part and said "Well my blog is for me, I use it like a journal and I don't care if other people see it," then ask yourself why you are taking the time to publish it on the web and not just writing it in MS Word or in a notebook. I admit I want people to read mine; I like to know what people think is funny and tune my writing craft accordingly.
In conclusion, take down your stupid blog; it's mere existance is annoying.
*credit 'anonymous' once again for correcting the spelling of 'appalling'. (I really wish these people would sign their comments)
posted by Justin @ 3:05 PM
5 Comments:
There is an alternative reason for one to say such as this ("Well my blog is for me, I use it like a journal and I don't care if other people see it"). I write a journal of my daily activity (combined with various musings stemming, though often unrelated to, these activites) and publish it on the internet for one main reason: the idea of a public that isn't making itself known to me is a sort of compulsion to stick with it. I've tried journals before and I have had no compulsion to continue with them after the first few days. I do a week of internet blogging and I've had one comment: that one comment even now persuades me to write even when I have several more up my belt. Several, yes. You heard that right. Several. Also, I like the idea that my friends could at any point discover this journal (not knowing that I have one) and suddenly see a much less palatable me. Both reasons, I admit, veer wildly into the pointless. But they're much more valid than assuming interest: I don't assume interest (I know it's unlikely) but I feel compelled by whatever interest may exist (and some does) to continue writing. And if it has helped cure me of that semi-colon overusage phase I was suffering through then all the better. It's about writing, with a bit of arrogance thrown into the crucible alongside.
Given the fact that you're uninterested in any rebuttal for any of your ideas (which is problematic as far as expanding the horizons of your thinking goes) you shall care little. Still, it'd be nice to think you'd reassess your sweeping generalisations. Statistically valid, but still generalisations. Some diary 'blogs have thought put into them. Some 'blogs that attempt constant witticisms don't. It's the way it goes.
This is a very valid idea and I would be much more inclined to give it just consideration if I knew to whom I was speaking. Identify yourself and a response shall be forthcoming. (if you don't feel like registering on blogspot then just sign it within the comment)
"Appalling" not "appauling"
Damn, really? My bad. 'Tis fixed.
I use my blog as a soapbox. Admittedly, unabashedly, unashamedly, it is my soapbox.
I also hate when my friends post a lame blog about "Matt came over and brought me flowers and then we watched a movie I love him so much."
P.S. I like your blog. Eventually I will refuse to not be intensely critical under the guise of "helpfulness" because like most people who are struck by genius, I'm an egomaniac. And I like using the smilies: ;-)
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