Does anyone else find blogs boring?

[Flying_Monkey]

Having a blog that my family migh tread to find out how things are going in the rich p world would open me up to ridicule I would justly deserve. Self-important, self-indulgent egotism in my opinion.

Send an email with some pics every now and again if you want, at least that way it can be personal to the receiver. I find group letters/blogs impersonal verging on the rude.

I already took the trouble to explain why private family blogs are not the same as impersonal letters, especially to those of us in rather different family situations from your own. Sending large files by e-mail is also not good netiquette as it can cause mailboxes to fill up rapidly etc. Blogs do not arrive uninvited. You have to chose to look at them. They are the opposite of an unwanted letter or e-mail.

In general, I find it really hard to see why people get 'annoyed' by things that they don't have to look at or engage with. I wonder whether this is sometimes more a defensive overreaction to simple confusion at the modern world and new methods of communication, or in a few cases, just another tut-tutting petty judgmentalism, rather than a considered critique. I've found myself in these places a couple of times (with social networking and Twitter, for example), and then forced myself to step back and think more about why I was reacting this way. It turned out in both cases that the reaction was more about my own ignorance than anything else.

 

[rich p]

I already took the trouble to explain why private family blogs are not the same as impersonal letters, especially to those of us in rather different family situations from your own. Sending large files by e-mail is also not good netiquette as it can cause mailboxes to fill up rapidly etc. Blogs do not arrive uninvited. You have to chose to look at them. They are the opposite of an unwanted letter or e-mail.

In general, I find it really hard to see why people get 'annoyed' by things that they don't have to look at or engage with. I wonder whether this is sometimes more a defensive overreaction to simple confusion at the modern world and new methods of communication, or in a few cases, just another tut-tutting petty judgmentalism, rather than a considered critique. I've found myself in these places a couple of times (with social networking and Twitter, for example), and then forced myself to step back and think more about why I was reacting this way. It turned out in both cases that the reaction was more about my own ignorance than anything else.

What makes you think I'm referring to you?

I'm pointing out how such a blog would make me feel.

 

[MacB]

I read a few blogs, some around work, some around news and some around cycling, none of them in the chatty 'what I had for breakfast' vein. There are a lot, particularly around cycling, where I've really only read the one piece, usually found via a google search or linked from other reading.

I don't do facebook, twitter, etc, they don't meet any of my current requirements but I don't rule them out for the future if things change(not sure how that would be, but never say never).

 

[Dan B]

Does anyone find this discussion boring? I've attempted to read a number of the posts recently and, dear lord, I get bored after a couple of sentences. 'I think this', 'I think that'.... tedium beyond belief

 

[GTTTM]

Does anyone find this discussion boring? I've attempted to read a number of the posts recently and, dear lord, I get bored after a couple of sentences. 'I think this', 'I think that'.... tedium beyond belief

+1

 

[Dayvo]

Does anyone find this discussion boring? I've attempted to read a number of the posts recently and, dear lord, I get bored after a couple of sentences. 'I think this', 'I think that'.... tedium beyond belief

The OP invited opinion on blogs, and all opinions are subjective, thus making them neither right or wrong.

If you find something boring, just run along and play elsewhere. Any moron can find a post and say 'oh, how boring...' Fortunately most people don't.

 

[Dan B]

Any moron can find a post and say 'oh, how boring...' Fortunately most people don't.

Substitute the word "blog" for "post" in the excerpt above and maybe you'll see the point I was getting at

 

[threebikesmcginty]

If you find something boring, just run along and play elsewhere. Any moron can find a post and say 'oh, how boring...' Fortunately most people don't.

yawn...

 

[MacB]

Does anyone find this discussion boring? I've attempted to read a number of the posts recently and, dear lord, I get bored after a couple of sentences. 'I think this', 'I think that'.... tedium beyond belief

Only til you arrived then suddenly it sparkled

 

[GTTTM]

The OP invited opinion on blogs, and all opinions are subjective, thus making them neither right or wrong.

If you find something boring, just run along and play elsewhere. Any moron can find a post and say 'oh, how boring...' Fortunately most people don't.

oh the irony

 

[MacB]

yawn...

Bang goes the sparkle, the real riff raff have been attracted now

 

[rich p]

.. then dont read it and you wont feel it!

For example, I have no particular feelings over your French cycling trip, because I didnt read it.

eh? You've lost me.

I was pointing out how I'd feel if I'd written such a blog so I guess I'd have read it letter by letter as I wrote.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Bang goes the sparkle, the real riff raff have been attracted now

seethe fume...

 

[yello]

Dogging?

I might read that one. I like dogs.

 

[numbnuts]

It all depends what the blog is about, I have one on making a sail for a kayak and I get feedback for all over the world, I've just had one not five minutes ago for a guy in New York saying how good it is