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I started blogging a couple of months ago as a way of letting off some creative steam during a time when I am unable to dedicate hours of writing to paper. I also wanted a forum in which I could put together a more linear version of the staccato exchanges about subjects I often find myself engaged in during the day. During this time I have come to the realisation that this new media phenomenon has created an entire community of millions of people who are under the impression that people want to hear what they have to say. I have just spent the last hour or so scrolling through various blogs on a number of websites and it stuns me how many people commit their daily routine to word. We've become a global society of people who send letters to friends at Christmas telling us what they have done over the year. No-one wants to know and no-one likes that guy. That guy sucks. Yet here we are blogging in the millions.
Now please, before anyone cleverly points out, I am aware of the hypocrisy in my saying this. I am under no illusion that anyone gives a rat's ass what I have to say. And to be frank I don't blame them. Why should I? But please don't be under the illusion that just because you find the fact that your cat fell asleep in your shoe cute the whole world shares that sentiment. Not only does the whole world not share that sentiment, they want to read about it even less. You've found an odd fungal infection in your navel? Tell you what, stop writing about and get some topical cream.
I can only attribute this rise in techno garden-fence yabber to the fact that actual, tangible garden fences are less in demand now. People would rather post their throughts to the whole world in the hope that a small band of people they will never meet may find it interesting than actually engage in conversation with the people around them. Will we eventually become non-verbally communicative autonomatons frantically typing away our thoughts in a neverending spew of binary diarrhea? Who knows? Lets all write about it and find out.
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Posted by SenorMoustache on 2008-12-13 12:58:10 | Rating: | Views: 231
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