For my first blog entry, I’d like to take the opportunity to share my oppinion of blogging in general. In short, I am not a fan. In order for a writer to create good works, he must keep his target audience in mind. For my part, I have no clue who will be reading this blog. Who in their right mind would be interested in my random thoughts and complaints? Am I writing a blog for my self, as a personal record of my ideas? If so, why post it on the internet? Am I writing for the amusement of some random web surfers who might happen to stumble upon it? If so, prepare to be unamused. I don’t know that I have anything I would like to share with the nameless, faceless conglomerate of users that is the internet. Another complaint that I have about blogging is the faux-personal relationship it creates between the author and the reader. As if reading ones blog will really help you get to know someone. I know there are some bloggers out there that share every detail of their personal lives with the entire internet. That doesn’t create a personal relationship with the readers of such a blog, all it does it devalue the “personal” aspect of the writers personal life. If its personal enough to really tell you something about me, it doesn’t belong bouncing through cyberspace. If you really want to know what I’m about, don’t read a blog post, just talk to me like a human being. In my opinion, looking to a blog as a means to get to know what someone is all about is rather insulting. It’s like saying “You seem really ineresting, and I’d like to get to know you better, but not enough to actually, you know, like TALK to you.” That said, even if no one out there cares to read what I have to say, and I don’t care who’s reading it, this might prove to be an interesting exercise. I’ve never done well with keeping a journal, and it might be helpful to get some of the thoughts in my head out in some form. Perhaps my ideas will clarify a little in the process of posting them. If not, prepare for a blog that’s as vague and confusing as what’s in my head, as I exchange the echo chamber of my mind for a larger echo chamber of the internet.
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Polluting the Blogosphere
For my first blog entry, I’d like to take the opportunity to share my oppinion of blogging in general. In short, I am not a fan. In order for a writer to create good works, he must keep his target audience in mind. For my part, I have no clue who will be reading this blog. Who in their right mind would be interested in my random thoughts and complaints? Am I writing a blog for my self, as a personal record of my ideas? If so, why post it on the internet? Am I writing for the amusement of some random web surfers who might happen to stumble upon it? If so, prepare to be unamused. I don’t know that I have anything I would like to share with the nameless, faceless conglomerate of users that is the internet. Another complaint that I have about blogging is the faux-personal relationship it creates between the author and the reader. As if reading ones blog will really help you get to know someone. I know there are some bloggers out there that share every detail of their personal lives with the entire internet. That doesn’t create a personal relationship with the readers of such a blog, all it does it devalue the “personal” aspect of the writers personal life. If its personal enough to really tell you something about me, it doesn’t belong bouncing through cyberspace. If you really want to know what I’m about, don’t read a blog post, just talk to me like a human being. In my opinion, looking to a blog as a means to get to know what someone is all about is rather insulting. It’s like saying “You seem really ineresting, and I’d like to get to know you better, but not enough to actually, you know, like TALK to you.” That said, even if no one out there cares to read what I have to say, and I don’t care who’s reading it, this might prove to be an interesting exercise. I’ve never done well with keeping a journal, and it might be helpful to get some of the thoughts in my head out in some form. Perhaps my ideas will clarify a little in the process of posting them. If not, prepare for a blog that’s as vague and confusing as what’s in my head, as I exchange the echo chamber of my mind for a larger echo chamber of the internet.
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