Ooh, blogs are fun.
Generally I don't read blogs of complete strangers online (and by complete strangers I mean celebrities or random blogs or whatever... I don't classify online friands as
complete strangers) unless they're funny or on a nice subject matter. I might read a blog entry on something cool or interesting, but all-in-all I'm really not interested in the inane details of "I took my cats to the vet today" or "I lost the menu to my favourite thai restaurant this morning, and..." etc.
I do read the blogs of friends, from the internet or in real life. I just really like looking at snapshots from the lives of others, even if they are biased. Our generation is one of complete technological connection, but isolation overall. We communicate more than ever, but less and less are we doing it face to face. This can be a double edghed sword- its advantages are obvious, but its disagvantages are there too- somehow I feel like today we spend less facetime with people then we're supposed to or something. I don't know. But anyway, I feel blogs- online journals and diaries- connect us a little bit more. There are some people who write in blogs like they do diaries, and diaries are always pretty full of honesty and emotion- honesty and emotion I can appreciate, feeling like I'm so cut off from the people I know. Not to mention, a smörgåsbord of information can be found from reading between the lines, and you can pick up on little things the writer didn't intend to put in, things they would have liked to have cover up otherwise. Evil fun.
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Originally Posted by Anime_Queen
Also - I think that people write diaries for HOPE that one day, someone might read them. I'm not sure I'd enTIRely believe someone who says that they never ever want that to happen :p Otherwise, why externalise what we mean to be internal?
well.. perhaps not dURing our lifetimes >_>
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I agree 100%- and blogs kind of make that immediate. I think we all secretly hope that when we die, our old journals wil be found, and upon the discovery of our genius, they will be published and we will be immortalized, all
Go Ask Alice or
Anne Frank-like.
On some level I feel like blogging is total narcissism. I always feel like a total narcissist when I do it- going on and on about myself, talking about things about which I really know nothing, blabbing on over topics in areas which I'm not studied. My opinions don't matter, and why do I go on and on in a place that is nothing more than a shrine to myself? Blogs, in a sense, I think, can inspire an attitude of self-importance and entitlement that, if gone unchecked, can run (annoyingly) rampant.