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By Blogging vs. Companionship I mean some may use blogging and Facebook, MySpace, ProfileU.whatever as a form of subsitution for actual friendship... To avoid people and reality by creating an alternate reality that is more of an illusion where you retreat to avoid "reality"....
It made a point, and I myself, excited by the novelty of blogging and profiling started prioritizing this solitary endeavor, ignoring the people actually with me... It's a dangerous illusion... As I've read in one post on a blogging site, this blogger wanted to be heard, cared about... LET ME FIND IT!
I WANT TO BE POPULAR!
travelr712 posted 11 days ago | views: 628 | Tags: popularity, blogging, Democrats, blog
There, I said it out loud! Yes, I want to be popular on this blog. It's one of the reasons I spend my time and effort here. I want hundreds of people subscribing to my site, because that means there are hundreds of people who care about what I think. I want as many people as possible to look at my screen name and think 'hey, I like him', or 'hey, he makes me think', or 'hey, what he just wrote helped me'.
It's true. If I just wanted somewhere to get my thoughts out in writing, I would use my Microsoft Word and save it to my hard disk. But I didn't come here, I don't spend so much time here, just to write down my words. I came here to socialize, to get to know other people all over the country, all over the world, and let them get to know me. The ONLY way to do that is to be popular. I know that, I freely admit it. I'm an attention whore.
I write on a variety of topics, in a variety of styles, purposely. Sometimes to entertain, sometimes to inform, sometimes to share, sometimes to invoke thought, in order to reach as many people as possible. Often, I will write with one or a few specific people in mind, first to get a message to them. Second, because I know that there are many people who read those people, and if they comment, perhaps their readers will come and look at what I wrote. I'm not ashamed to admit that fact. But always, I write with the thought of wanting as many people as I can get to come and read my posts. I want to have one or two of those posts with 500 views and 200 comments! I want to break the 100 subscribers mark!
But I don't want these things just because I'm an attention whore. I want these things because I think I have something to say that is of value to other people. I think I have stories that many people will enjoy reading. And I think I write pretty good poetry too. :-) And I do all of this for the enjoyment and edification of other people, not for myself. That's why I have chosen a public forum to write these things in.
Yes, I want to be popular. Is that such a bad thing?
THAT BLOG IS INTERESTING...
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Posted by DRAKEGIRLBLUE on 2008-01-23 20:48:53 | Rating: | Views: 61
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The reality of it is this. No matter how popular you are on any website community, you will never feel satisfied. Unless you really connect with someone the thought of having lots of friends or being popular will be fake. Empty. What a friend of mine did is establish real relationships with people met via web(not psychopath killers/rapists mind you)and ended up calling them and later flying out to meet them. I can't see fulfillment from anything else.
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Posted by Tyler40k
on 2008-01-29 14:05:30
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my roommate has done that & it seriously creeps me out. he's got his own little world going on online. i've tried to encourage more human interaction/socialization but he seems to be perfectly at ease with never having to actually see any of the people he 'meets.' it's not always the case because he has actually gone on to meet some of them in the flesh but still...
to each his own i suppose but i still think that's unhealthy. there's definitely nothing wrong with meeting people online but not if u replace normal human interaction with it.
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Posted by foxx_flie
on 2008-01-31 15:19:16
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PS
that IS an interesting blog haha
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Posted by foxx_flie
on 2008-01-31 15:24:52
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