Why I Hate Personal Weblogs
Posted 10/03/2004 under
research •
That’s not me that hates personal Weblogs, but is the title of this essay by somebody who professes to hate them. This person makes some good points and the article is worth reading, and in parts is very witty, however if bad language offends you, don’t click on the link below. (Of course, by saying that every person who reads this weblog entry will automatically click on the link to discover what foul words have been written there!!).
Everybody is entitled to there opinion and the beauty of the Web is that every person can publish an opinion, as a Weblog perhaps, and who cares whether others agree with it or not.
Anyway, here’s a sample;
There are, I’m sure, as many reasons to keep weblogs as there are weblogs authors, however, some common threads surely exist between them. What could motivate someone to keep a public journal of their innermost thoughts? What possible reasons would someone have? Are some legitimately insightful or original, of course! Are most? No, probably not. So why? Well, I think most can be classified into one (or many) of several basic categories.
The Reverse Voyeur. This person suffers from a serious personal attention debt. I think this probably accounts for the majority of weblog authors. Not so much an exhibitionist, they aren’t making a spectacle of themselves in order to attract attention, no these people simply wish to be spied on intimately. They crave attention from someone else in their lives, they wish that someone would see them for who they really are and want to spend real time with them…