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October 18, 2006
This Entry Is About Lists About Blogs
As frequently as once a week and as infrequently as once a month, I check my facebook and myspace pages. I have found that I have three types of friends: (1) they don't know what a blog is, (2) they have a blog, or (3) they think blogs are stupid. Some of my friends even have domains that say blogs are stupid, or instead of a url they write the equivalent of "I don't do that shit" for their link. BUT, for the friends who do know what blogs are, and don't think they're stupid, they inevitably do one of two things:
(1) Write about really personal things. It's often how depressed they are, that they feel all alone (aka "small fish in big pond"), and/or they're just contemplating their life's worth in an effort to demonstrate just how deep and dimensional they are. Sometimes they even go into graphic detail when describing their latest hookup or, more often, latest wet dream.(2) Write about how F'ing AWESOME they are, about all the guys (or girls) who are after them, about how so-and-so told them they're way "the hott" (one 'T' isn't enough), about how SMART they are, about how lucky they are, and/or about how their life is perfect and everything is falling into just the right places for them.
Honestly, it never fails. Blogs all exist to either impress the reader or elicit feelings of pity and uncomfort. And it makes me SICK!
I understand that I am not above others. Without going through the archives, I'm sure I've done an amazing job of writing about either how cool I was because I've wasted weekends playing video games and spent a ridiculous amount of money on clothes OR about how lonely and sad I was after being rejected (a very rare occurence, I assure you, HA!).
Screw it, because this is a new day! I'm turning over a leaf and starting this blog to... well I don't know why. For fun? Because I'm lame (and simultaneously cool and technologically cutting-edge)?
I have two guidelines I plan to follow in writing:
(1) I will not write when I am sad/depressed/recently rejected/have just had an intimate encounter.(2) I will not be impressive.
That second one will certainly be a challenge, but I think I can do it. I will not be cool. I will not be cool.
Posted by Stacy on October 18, 2006 02:30 PM | Filed In: Blog
Comments
Pretty cool entry. ;)
Posted by Alan at October 18, 2006 03:38 PM
3) a combination of 1+2
I find it annoying too. I hate when people blog to feel important (writers who can't get published so they "blog" and think they're so awesome and that everyone will read it *gag*)
I'm not above it either, and have done 1+2, but in my defense, I was a teenager. And now that I'm not, my excuse is that it's my journal and I can whine about what I want since I'm not seeking out an audience.
Posted by stacee at October 18, 2006 03:51 PM
You are a cutie!
Posted by Pete at October 18, 2006 03:53 PM
human nature hasn't changed. before the internet a person sat down and wrote by the hand. hand writing experts can reveal a person well by the mind-guided letters. "ah! just look at my penmanship! its so brilliant!" with now, the self consciousness has stayed; moreso in the form of self-aggrandizement. "they don't know how i got my marks but here i am." i write aggrandizing things because human nature will never change. it's a lot like that song from Talking Heads. reading is solitary and self referential. the reader will always know that the writer's hott wife is something he doesn't have and it doesn't stop envious people from doing what they do best.
Posted by Troy Gotengco Magtoto at October 22, 2006 08:02 PM
taegukgi revisited. just this week, kim jong il decided to test two nuclear weapons. in prior posts you took the biblical view of forgiveness to the fallen Magdalena as Christ condoning moral relativity. Kim Jong Il is going to cook more storm in the following years. does it at all change your opinion of bush's resolve against, dare i say it, evil? this is an aside but you're an incredibly beautiful woman. in your recent flickr portfolio there are three coy photographs. the lastest one being the most. you look like a snow bunny with your pink bomber hat. audrey hepburn never had feline curves like that. recommend post more curvacious profiles. Snow Bunnies!
Posted by Troy Gotengco Magtoto at October 22, 2006 08:45 PM
Just do what I do, and write about comic books.
It's funny, because one of the first posts I was going to make on the site after I got it up and running again was about what's been going on, and I read it, and I thought to myself "it sounds like I'm whining. What the hell, I'm not emo." So I didn't post it.
Posted by Flip at October 23, 2006 12:45 AM
I've definitely been guilty of #1, but definitely not #2, haha I don't have enough ego for that. But I thought this was an interesting entry and I visit here every now and then and had to comment. I'm so sick of blogs these days too and although being "personal" can get emo, it's more *real* I suppose, you can say, like blogs were originally back in the day. Nowadays, it feels like everyone is out to entertain and find an audience and you could never find anyone modest or humble about their writing or even about themselves anymore. The internet is an attention-whore's dream in a way and sometimes people will do anything to get that attention.
Like someone said above, I just write for myself -- or at least I try to. I acknowledge that I have an audience, but I don't want my blog/journal to be about them. After all, it's about my own expression whether they like it or not.
Posted by Cindy at October 28, 2006 11:41 AM
