I've decided that we should all agree that excess blogs authored by illiterate and boring morons should be discontinued, deleted, and made to disappear completely. That way, their audience will come to me.
I still remember the days when having a blog was a novel idea. Now EVERYONE has one. One day it will be the custom to no longer just exchange e-mail addresses with new friends, but blog URLs as well.
A friend once sent me this article, saying, "Eman no offense to ur blog thing but read this". I've stopped having a "blog thing" some time ago. I used to post uninteresting happenings, and you may find one or two such posts in the future, but "blogging" about every little thing I do during the course of my day isn't rewarding to me at all. This website just keeps evolving.
I hate having to post "for the people". I write what I feel like writing at the time, whatever I damn well please, in the style I'm comfortable with. To try to create content that is popular with the majority of the world these days (adding pictures, being real funny, being "deep" and insightful, blah blah blah...) is a headache, trends are volatile.
One thing that irks me the most is people who "blog" as if they were sending an IM to someone. "yeah, so i tld my freind 'talk tothe hand', lol :D" Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. I know I've written about this before, but these people really IRK me.
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I lost a lot of credibility in this guy.
(random spot:) ¨EAT SHIT!!!¨
Almost as bad as the people he´s dissing.
He is generalizing.
It´s a long list.
He has no friends.
He has no hobbies.
He has no job.
He has no social life.
Let me rephrase:
Worse than the people he´s dissing.
Gio.
He has friends. He has a hobby (his website). He has a job. And I don't know about the others.
You might want to keep these points in mind, in case you write him, which you probably should.
I don't think anyone should have to post "for the people," on their blogs either. If you feel people expect you to be entertaining & try to live up to what you feel are their expectations, you may as well create a joke site.
But it's refreshing when someone is just himself on his blog, whether that includes "adding pictures, being real funny, being 'deep' and insightful," or whatever that person really is. I imagine it's also nice for the blogger to know that the people that stick around like him for what he really is.
That guy was entitled to his opinion, & I'm sure if "blog lingo" was so rampant everywhere I went, I'd be just as fed up. But I have to say the way he presented it didn't make me feel like agreeing w/ him.
He could have made his point w/o punctuating each paragraph w/ some crass or violent expletive, & it would've made perfect sense, highlighting the issue instead of the angry frustration bordering on insanity.
I can identify w/ most of those chatting pet peeves in your other post, but since I only chat w/ friends, for one thing they don't often do those things, & for another, b/c they're friends, I can overlook it when they do.
And I don't blog, but I often type in abbreviations just b/c I'm lazy & it takes me so long to type anyway, I figure I may as well make it as easy as possible on myself. Sorry if it bugs u. I'll try not to do it too much. At least I try (though maybe not always successfully) to spell properly, right? :D
At the risk of overstepping myself, being someone you don't know from Adam: Keep being yourself, Eman; just remember to let Him shine through, too.
By posting my article above, I don't mean I'll never add pictures, be funny, "deep", and insightful.
I agree with your take on Maddox's article, Nina, but the point of posting the article was to show how stereotyped blogs are.
As in, thank heavens I'm not a "blogger" per se.
Your spelling isn't bad, Nina. Of course, when I sometimes chat with good friends, I overlook typos and some chatting pet peeves.
Exactly. It doesn't bug me when people use some abbreviations sparsely, and make an effort to spell. It's when people misspell because they don't make the effort, or are so lazy that every other word is abbreviated.
Glad you're gonna keep being yourself (not that I was worried you'd stop)!
I thought I'd visited a lot of blogs, but maybe not enough to realize the stereotype. I guess most of the people in the world don't have all that much meaning in their lives & "out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh," on their blogs.
I'm glad you're not a "blogger," too, if that's what blogging is equated w/. Maybe b/c I tried to stick w/ Family/godly blogs, I never really thought that way about bloggers. To me it was just interesting to get a glimpse of the lives of other missionaries, see the similarities & differences, & enjoy them as well as the fellowship on these sites.
Spelling is one thing I do make an effort at, although I hv to confess, I am the lazy abbreviator. Stems from yrs of writing diaries (which I actually didn't like, & don't do anymore, TG), typing P&Ps in Notepad instead of Word, where nearly all the abbreviations would be marked w/ those awful, red, jaggedy underlines, & finally chatting, since I figured better to abbreviate than to never be able to get a word in edgewise (yes, I'm that slow a typist)!
You said it.
Yeah, I try to stick to family blogs, although I sometimes run across a random Livejournal or blogspot.com blog and...yech.
Yeah, I don't really mind your abbreviations, when compared to some others who really blow at writing and spelling (the people who irk me), you're not bad at all.
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