February 25, 2007
Blogs come in many different varieties - news & commentaries, photoblogs, sketchblogs, vlogs, podcasting and for many, personal online diaries.
Many people have their reasons for starting a blog or writing one. But of all blogs, online diaries are the most personal but yet public. They are also known to be controversial in the eyes of the conventional. People who are not inclined towards expressing themselves in a diary book often turn to the cyber world where typing makes everything so easy and convenient. Typing makes writing faster and the amount of effort applied in writing a diary entry is three times lesser than writing with a pen. Most people will prefer the more convenient way since the Internet is so available.
Why do we blog? We blog for many reasons. Let's talk about myself for a while.
I blog for a few reasons:
1 - To express my inner thoughts and desires. This place contains most of my inner emotions, deeper thoughts and petty rants. It is personal and at the same time, controversial. "Why write your deepest thoughts and confessions when you can write them in a book?", many people asked me. Well, like I said, it is way convenient to type with my fingers than to write with my palm, fingers and wrist. The problem with Blogger.com is that blog entries do not provide an option for bloggers to make their entry a private one. However, I still use Blogger.com because I can design and decorate my blog to make it look great.
2 - To rant. Of course, we all have bad days. And the place to rant is in our blogs. For me, it is in MY blog that my feelings, emotions and thoughts will be voiced out.. disregarding the feelings of others. This is because it is my blog. I would have made it personal or private if I have the option to. But based on my preference in using Blogger.com, I have no other choices but to let it go public. And since some people do not like reading my blog, there also people who follows it. So what difference will this make to me if I lose my readers? Again, I would agree to a certain extent that
if you don't like what I write, don't read. Similarly, like what xiaxue once said, "If you don't like to read what's written, then get lost and stop causing trouble here". Comparing the level of insensitivity, xiaxue beats me hands down.
By the way, blogs that are online diaries often create the most misunderstandings and misjudgments upon the writer's credibility, intentions and character. This is because many a times, young bloggers like yours truly are sometimes bias and subjective in their expressions of opinions and feelings. Of course, there are many issues abound that are not written or expressed in their entries due to some personal reasons. This often result in misinterpretations or misunderstandings upon readers who are related to the writer in some extent. Hence, I shall now reveal the different types of readers I've came across in my life of blogging.
The Know-It-Alls
These readers tend to give lots of comments about what they know after reading the blogger's entries. It is always good to have people to share some knowledge to you especially when they think they are always the ones knowing their stuffs well despite certain loopholes. These readers are useful, although irritating.
The Cynics
These readers tend to be critical of the blogger's every move. Every single entry the blogger writes offends them in many different ways. They have to fight for their stand. They have to create a big hoo-ha around the blog getting so much attention from the blogger in an irritating manner. The flaming and complaining goes on which, apparently, is a waste of time because bloggers like me will never entertain readers like these.
The Crazy Nut Case
These readers are just plain nonsense. Although rare in quantity, they appear out of nowhere just to harass you with stupid remarks and spams. These people are as good as dead cells on my nose that I can just simply brush away like nobody's business. Powerless creeps and sore losers.
The Law Enforcer
These are not readers at all. They are people who tell you what is right and wrong, drawing the lines between what is acceptable and what is not - making a hell lot of noise most of the time. They are very good with their dos and don'ts and expect that others do the same. It's not a bad trait. After all, you have somebody who tells you the things you left out.
The Lurkers
Sometimes, I don't even know that such readers exist around my blog. Some will never tag me or even leave a trace in my sitemeter. Some will visit my blog but leave anonymous tags which got me really puzzled of who these people are. I would prefer readers to tell me who they are, otherwise, they belong to this category. And to tell you the truth, falling into this category is not something to be proud of, lurkers.
The Cyclops
These readers only have one eye. They only see things in one direction and this is what makes them narrow-minded freaks. Many a times, these readers fail to read between the lines and instantly make unreasonably negative conclusions without tapping their cerebral cortex for further processing of information. The One Eye really makes it hard for these readers to stop pin-pointing out grammatical mistakes and language structures as if the blog is theirs. But then, these readers do not last long because once you dig their eye out, they'll stop harassing you.
The Regulars
I just love you guyz. Because of you, I'm motivated to write more and share more of my stuffs. You guyz are people who are calm, natural, patient, open-minded and always look so cute. I like y'all.
Nonetheless, I am continuing my blogging hobby as long as I'm still alive. And forever, I'll be loving my regulars from the bottom of my heart. Thank you guyz for being such wonderful and patient readers.
