Groatie's Galavant

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

'Oh I do love reading your blog!'

Ok so 1 week turns into 1 month but it's not like I have been idle or anything. I am in a foreign country and am extremely busy!

But a promise is a promise and I have yet again let you down. Well let my Dad down, seems he enjoys his random blogger update.

There is just this one little niggly thing that has been bugging me though. The popularity and hype associated with blogs these days. I just annoys me. And is the main reason I have not written a post in a little while. Blogs have become a bit too trendy and there seems to be one too many self appointed literary critics out there that want to read your post and then rip it to shreds like it is a high school essay with them the head of the English department.

I started a blog way back whenever it was as a way to communicate with may family and friends where I was in the world and what I was up to. Heaps easier than a group email because those who care and want to read it will. It seems now people around me are more worried about the spelling mistakes or a particular analogy being 'so third grade' that I think they actually forget to read the post content. When will people realise that blogs are just another product of our societies inability to personally communicate with each other and stop treating them like a literary piece waiting to be edited. And in the end if they don't like a persons blog and its content...then they shouldn't read it!

These are my words
These my ideas
This is what I have been up to
This is my blog

If I wanted to be a writer I wouldn't have studied nursing

Peace x