We have become a society of quick and short.
We want information, but only if it's in fast and small bites.
This is why Twitter is as successful as it is.
Everybody has something to say, lots of somethings to say, and everybody wants to be heard, have their somethings be read.
This whole blogging thing is interesting, I've been doing it for more than 12 years now, and blogging is all about us, it's all about the blogger.
We are writing about ourselves, our lives, we want people to read us and know us, read what we write.
But now there's a lot of bloggers, so many people have blogs, everybody is blogging and everybody wants to be read, but because we've become a society of fast and short like Twitter, blog posts are becoming shorter and shorter so that people will read it.
If you write a huge post, your readers will just skim it.
But they want you to read their blog posts, every single word.
The other thing I find interesting and highly amusing is other blogger's opinions of other bloggers.
I've read many times now over the years, where a situation comes up, like a little "blog war".
It's when a certain blogger and their friends who are also bloggers, don't like another blogger anymore, so they start picking apart that blogger.
They start picking apart the posts, talking bad about the contents of posts, and talking bad about the blogger's life, and talking bad about the blogger.
It always cracks me up when someone says something like,
"I can't believe so and so, did you see what they wrote on their blog?!?!? They always think that everything is about them!!"
Um, it's a blog.
A blog IS about that blogger, so yes, it IS all about them...LoL
Your blog is about you, her blog is about her, and my blog is about me.
We all love to talk about ourselves, we all like writing about ourselves in our blogs, and we all like it when other people read our blogs and leave us comments, share in our experiences, be a part of our lives.
Blogging is narcissistic by it's very nature.
Blogging lets people talk about themselves and have other people read and comment on what we have written about ourselves, so to read someone say "They always think that everything is about them" when they post it to their blog and are referring to another blogger's blog, is hysterical.
Maybe they don't see the irony of what they said, but it's true.
If you blog about your life and say something like that about another blogger, you're pretty much being a hypocrite.
Ooops, this post is getting to be a bit too long.
If I don't want my readers to just skim it and totally misunderstand what I've written, I need to stop writing now.
And that, by the way, is usually the reason for a whole lot of the misunderstandings between bloggers.
The reader just skims the post instead of the whole thing, they only read what they want to, they only take away from it what they want, and they can and usually do, totally misinterpret the entire thing, and then tell another blogger that so and so blogger thinks that everything is all about them.
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We want information, but only if it's in fast and small bites.
This is why Twitter is as successful as it is.
Everybody has something to say, lots of somethings to say, and everybody wants to be heard, have their somethings be read.
This whole blogging thing is interesting, I've been doing it for more than 12 years now, and blogging is all about us, it's all about the blogger.
We are writing about ourselves, our lives, we want people to read us and know us, read what we write.
But now there's a lot of bloggers, so many people have blogs, everybody is blogging and everybody wants to be read, but because we've become a society of fast and short like Twitter, blog posts are becoming shorter and shorter so that people will read it.
If you write a huge post, your readers will just skim it.
But they want you to read their blog posts, every single word.
The other thing I find interesting and highly amusing is other blogger's opinions of other bloggers.
I've read many times now over the years, where a situation comes up, like a little "blog war".
It's when a certain blogger and their friends who are also bloggers, don't like another blogger anymore, so they start picking apart that blogger.
They start picking apart the posts, talking bad about the contents of posts, and talking bad about the blogger's life, and talking bad about the blogger.
It always cracks me up when someone says something like,
"I can't believe so and so, did you see what they wrote on their blog?!?!? They always think that everything is about them!!"
Um, it's a blog.
A blog IS about that blogger, so yes, it IS all about them...LoL
Your blog is about you, her blog is about her, and my blog is about me.
We all love to talk about ourselves, we all like writing about ourselves in our blogs, and we all like it when other people read our blogs and leave us comments, share in our experiences, be a part of our lives.
Blogging is narcissistic by it's very nature.
Blogging lets people talk about themselves and have other people read and comment on what we have written about ourselves, so to read someone say "They always think that everything is about them" when they post it to their blog and are referring to another blogger's blog, is hysterical.
Maybe they don't see the irony of what they said, but it's true.
If you blog about your life and say something like that about another blogger, you're pretty much being a hypocrite.
Ooops, this post is getting to be a bit too long.
If I don't want my readers to just skim it and totally misunderstand what I've written, I need to stop writing now.
And that, by the way, is usually the reason for a whole lot of the misunderstandings between bloggers.
The reader just skims the post instead of the whole thing, they only read what they want to, they only take away from it what they want, and they can and usually do, totally misinterpret the entire thing, and then tell another blogger that so and so blogger thinks that everything is all about them.
Hi Kat,
I just wanted to stop in because my mom specifically asked how you were and told me to tell you "hi".
I agree with you about the short and fast, and how no one will read your posts if they aren't short. I have noticed that for a while now, and it makes me sad. I don't even seem to know how to write a short post! (or a short comment) I don't mind reading them as long as they are interesting and not just pure fluff and redundancy. Blogging as we know it is slowly but surely dying.