Quote "The existence of an A-list is of particular importance to newish bloggers, those who check their stats more than once a day and fret about the fact that they haven't hit an average of 200 yet. These are also the types who are most likely to identify A-listers from Technorati, and leave bland, identical comments about what a great blog they've got, in the hope that someone will click on their URL. Yes HumanityCritic I'm talking to you." --
Karen
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Hope I'm not talking out of turn here, but isn't the whole idea of A List, B list etc "blogs" a bit silly and verging on the rather geeky ? At times I do find some things talked about on blogs rather disturbing too. There have been occassions when I have read personal thoughts and experiences shared with the world that I, myself, would not even contemplate sharing with my closest friends for fear of ridicule. Is this normal behaviour or against "the rules" ? Regards.
If by 'the rules' you mean my "The Rules" then no. Everyone blogs to the extent they're comfortable with. There are all kinds of things I could write about on here, but I know that people are reading and who could be reading so I simply don't go there for those reasons.
The 'lists' to me began as a vaguely satirical version of how celebrities are catagorised which has no gained a wierd seriousness. Which is I think what the quote is trying to say in a roundabout way. There are two types of blogger IMHO -- those who dream of being 'A-List' and those who couldn't give a monkeys.
Fair enough. Which catergory do you fit in ; he he. As for the rules bit, I'm sure I read somewhere that writing about yourself was a bit of a taboo, but having come across those who have written things about their personal life and experiences that have made me cringe, I have wondered to myself " why are you telling the world ?"
Because they can. They'll talk about things on the blog that they would mention in real life. They express themselves best in words on a screen. People have been keeping diaries for years. The difference is the whole world is potentially reading.
You seemed to have missed my argument here. The whole point of a diary is that it is secret and no-one else reads it surely ? We're not talking Winston Churchill's War Diaries here by the way, more the thing an adolescent would write you understand. Revelations concerning desires about girls/boys they've spotted in the street, or the time they fell over in a public place aren't really worthy of world wide consumtion or of any interest to anyone are they ?
Not any more. Yes, you can have a moleskin for the stuff you really want to keep between you and the page; but there are some who want to tell the world everything and good luck to them if they can get away with it. Hell, I could be doing that here, but practicality means I stintmiclooth and leave enough between the lines for anyone who wants to go digging and inferring. But that suites me. Besides some of the best blogging I've read has been from the heart about the personal, as exciting and uplifting as a poem or song or painting or film all of which can equally express the most personal of feelings, even if yes, perhaps in less explicit of ways.
Some blogs are very confessional. I know from my own experience that it is sometimes a good way to write something out of your system. Writing in a diary is a different style to writing for an audience of total strangers, and the latter can be more cathartic. You also benefit from gathering a supportive network, again of strangers.
As for the A-list thing, the tone of my post was meant to denigrate the whole idea. Really, who cares?
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