Most of the time I've got nothing to say
I'm not your ideal blogger. I'm not interested in lots of stuff and don't have much to talk about. Don't get me wrong, there are things I like. I like most animals and some people, I love music, nature, the sea, rain and the night. But generally, I don't have much to say about these things.
There are bloggers out there who write about the minutia of their lives. "Now get this, you'll love this. Today I woke up. I breathed in and guess what? I breathed out and then I breathed in again and then I...." You get the idea, not all that interesting in my view but probably interesting to their friends, family and neighbours. Although I wouldn't want to inflict that stuff on anyone, let alone anyone close to me. Maybe their virtual friends are more open or less discerning than my real friends. In the long run, it probably doesn't matter.
But developments in communication media have expedited our transformation from mainly consumers of media to producers of it, while associated developments in the web have given us an audience. It is an interesting social study to see how we employ this technology and how we impose our individual codes of ethics on the stuff we produce.
CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO BLOGGERS - "By the way did you hear about the blogger in our neighbourhood who died?" - Nah, who was it? - "Bobby, that guy who's blog was called Groans From the Gutter." - Yeah, now I know, his blog was along the lines of I breathed in, I breathed out, I breathed etc. Fascifuckenating! How did he die? - "I think he choked on a hotdog or something." - Well we've still got Susie and her blog Tales From the Trailer and her dull self absorption so no damage done. - "Right, no great loss."
I think it's these sort of blogs of mine that have lead once enthusiatic neighbours to pack up and move house over time. I realise that I'm firmly in the minority. People seem to love the breathe in, breathe out stuff. Not me. Now of course my dwindling group of neighbours will rally to my cause, offering comments of support......well, I'm waiting. Come on! Is anyone out there? Nothing?.........I told you I was in the minority.
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Is that post modern something or other????
And after all the effort I put into trying to build an interesting blog experience.
Gee, I don't know Crib - complaining seems to be at the heart of most blogs. Perhaps you're not in the minority after all?
You're my ideal blogger.
Thanks monika. I'm not sure about a [this is bad] - in the wrong hands it may be abused. Maybe a few select people (among them, us) should be granted access to it.
Yet, when all that is shared actually says nothing, when there's no point at all except to exclaim, 'hey look at me,' then why write it at all? Myspace does the 'hey look at me' perfectly well.
It doesn't surprise me at all that much of what is blogged doesn't interest me. Just in the same way that I haven't read the latest detective novel on the stands at train stations, nor have I liked much of what flickers on the television.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if some of what I have blogged has been regarded with a [this is bad] by at least somebody.
Horses for courses and all that.
Yet, despite the range and variation of opinion some but not all people who share nothing but the trivial are indeed as boring as hell. Yet others who do the same are funny and entertaining.
I think sometimes the way that some people display themselves captures their own character... and yet in other cases it doesn't. Meh... with practice and foresight they might learn some creativity...
Bloody hope I can.
I don't even find my own life fascinating enough to be particularly interested in it, I don't flatter myself that there are a lot of strangers hanging out on Vox that are just dying to hear about my enthralling day in the life of a wife, mother of three and full-time college student living in the slow-moving bowels of Southwest Virginia...
I find that most of the time the things I want to blog on center around something that has inspired me, a book, a movie, a quote, a photo... I thrive off of other people's creativity, and thank god for it because what a bore life would be without it...
Hmmm...so I guess don't read those blogs, right? I personally love sifting through the electric pages of hundreds of different perspectives. I sift through and take with me so many small gems, I would never ask anyone to stop or posit myself as superior.