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Thursday, August 7, 2008
Bloggers
Please quit...
I swear to God, it's like the entire blog arena is infested with twisted shorts these days. Just be nice. That's all. Be nice.
Sincerely,
Lurking On A Whole Lot Of Bloggage
- ...bitching about the people who are posting about Blog Her. So you didn't go. You didn't want to go/couldn't afford to go/felt like you wouldn't belong/whatever. Get over it. Hell, I didn't go. No clue what it was until it was over. But bitching about the people who went, and the things they did, the friends they met and the enemies they avoided--man, you just sound petty. If it's not your thing, fine, but don't berate those who enjoy stuff like that. If you felt like you wouldn't belong, that's fine, but it's not anyone's problem other than yours, the same as those who couldn't afford to go yet somehow seemed to expect other people to pool cash together to get them there. I'd like to do a whole lot of things that I can't afford, including seeing family I haven't seen in nearly a decade, but I sure as hell don't expect anyone else to pay for it.
- ...taking potshots at the "popular" bloggers. Yeah, 99% of us will never have their traffic, we'll never have the several hundred comments a day they get, and we'll never be on CNN. So? If you got into blogging thinking you'd get rich and famous, you got into the wrong thing.
- ...acting like the blogosphere owes you something. Sure, a lot of bloggers are getting free stuff from companies. So? Did you start doing this for the freebies? Even the people getting the free stuff aren't going to get it forever, and most of what they're getting is kind of crappy. So why get so bent about it?
- ...complaining because cancer or MS or whatever is getting more sympathy from other bloggers than your diabetes or chronic pain. People sympathize with things they can relate to. It's not personal. Perhaps you'd get more sympathy if you offered it in turn. Funny, the people I see complaining the most don't seem to be offering anything to the bloggers they're complaining about.
- ...making fun of blog genres you don't "get." I don't enjoy politics; I find it boring and not worth the time to poke through the endless political opinion blogs. But that doesn't mean they don't have a place. I don't have kids so I can't really relate to a lot of Mommy blogs, but thousands of parents out there can. If you don't like a blog, stay away from it, it's that easy.
I swear to God, it's like the entire blog arena is infested with twisted shorts these days. Just be nice. That's all. Be nice.
Sincerely,
Lurking On A Whole Lot Of Bloggage
Unsent Letters, 5:18 PM
