Blogging from one of my university’s libraries like a boss.
The inspiration for today’s blog entry comes from a conversation that happened last night:
Mother, talking about Facebook, Twitter, blogs: “What surprises me is that people want to share everything with everyone.”
Sister: “What surprises me, is that they think people care enough to read it.”
Little do they know, am I right? I am right, because there is always someone who wants to read it.1 I have people who subscribe to and read this blog (albeit a small number), without me even having to hold them at gunpoint. I enjoy the fact that I’m writing to an audience. Writing for an audience, even.
Further, the more personal the blog is (i.e., the more details that are given out about the bloggers’ personal lives), the more interesting it generally is. Since being told I’m a bit elusive online, I’m endeavouring to talk about it more, continuing my “thoughts about random topics” approach I had when I began, but also sharing more personal thoughts and details. I’ve mentioned before that if I told Real Life friends about this blog, most of them wouldn’t understand the concept of blogging, and the speech I quoted above supports my hypothesis.
I guess you have to be a blogger to understand blogging.
- provided you can write with correct spelling and grammar, and can write something in at least a vaguely-interesting style, perhaps [↩]
Everyone is just SO into blogging about blogging these days.
I think we should start something like… Blog Blog Blog (pronounced like “Blah Blah Blah”, lol) so we can really examine blogging.
I’m a blogger, so I understand blogging, but I find it difficult to explain to my friends. But, whatever, I have my small slice of e-fame, so I am happy.
I think you’re right on all accounts. People assume that others CARE about what they post on their status/twitter, which can be annoying and totally wrong. I try to use these venues for organizing gettogethers, linking funny things, or sharing thoughts I think people might actually be able to give opinions/responses to. I think blogging is a difficult concept for non-bloggers to grasp.
I used to hate the idea of Twitter. I mean, who REALLY cares what you’re thinking every second of the day? But now I love it. I care! I follow people who I know/like, so I care what they think. I’m also narcissistic enough to think that people care what I have to say.
People apparently care what I have to say on a larger scale (my blog), because I have quite a few subscribers and get a nice amount of comments per post.
I agree; some of my RL friends know about my blog, but I don’t voluntarily tell people about it.
I don’t have Twitter though, because I know I’ll be too lazy to update and maintain it! 
The key to success for every blog (or microblog) is straddling the line between writing about oneself and writing interesting stories. We’re not the most interesting people (“we” meaning bloggers in general) but if we can tell a good story… then we’re gold.
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