Why do we do it?
Blogs are a funny thing. To think, who in her right mind would sit at their desk and pour out the innermost details of her personal life to complete strangers? Why do we do this? Is it for the feedback, some sort of free psychoanalysis? Does it make us feel important that others find us interesting (even if we can't even find ourselves to be so)?
For me, just getting my thoughts out of my head and onto paper, whether it be virtual paper or actual paper, makes me feel better. The process of getting the thoughts down in black and white makes it easier, usually, to reach a solution of some kind. Sometimes when we're able to look at our thoughts, the things we've been worrying about seem so trivial compared to the problems of others, things going on in the news, etc.
There are times I sit down to write in my own blog and find myself so absorbed in the stories in others blogs that I can't think of a thing to write. I can't imagine that anything I have to say is of interest to anyone else in the world. Although...I imagine some of the people writing in the blogs that I find so fascinating think the same thing about their own lives and writing.
Maybe this is why reality television is so popular, why soap operas have been popular for so many years. We all get to sit back for a while, absorb ourselves in someone else's life, troubles, romances, jobs, family...forget about our own shit for a while.
The human race truly is fascinating.
For me, just getting my thoughts out of my head and onto paper, whether it be virtual paper or actual paper, makes me feel better. The process of getting the thoughts down in black and white makes it easier, usually, to reach a solution of some kind. Sometimes when we're able to look at our thoughts, the things we've been worrying about seem so trivial compared to the problems of others, things going on in the news, etc.
There are times I sit down to write in my own blog and find myself so absorbed in the stories in others blogs that I can't think of a thing to write. I can't imagine that anything I have to say is of interest to anyone else in the world. Although...I imagine some of the people writing in the blogs that I find so fascinating think the same thing about their own lives and writing.
Maybe this is why reality television is so popular, why soap operas have been popular for so many years. We all get to sit back for a while, absorb ourselves in someone else's life, troubles, romances, jobs, family...forget about our own shit for a while.
The human race truly is fascinating.
posted by Brownie at
12:00 AM
3 Comments:
I think blogging is important because after we put down how we feel into the blog, the thoughts become not just a confused feeling, but truth, real honest to God truth, that really explains our little section of the world.
I'm also a comment whore. I want comments, all of the comments I can get, somebody, please comment...
Good post,
AC
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AnonymousCog, at 8/24/2005 9:35 PM
Comment whore. Me too. :D
I was about to blog about the hurricane and the Supreme Court, and I saved it as a draft. It was so trite that I couldn't be bothered with it. I'm feeling it, yes, but not all of what I feel should be shared. That's one of the lessons I learned this summer.
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fuquinay, at 9/06/2005 9:01 AM
Ooh, I have ran this one through my head several times...for me, I think I can truly say it's because I am so dang lonely sometimes and I thrive when there are comments in my blog. I have my settings currently that a comment is e-mailed to me, but I want to see it for real on the blog site, so I go there to read it instead. How bizarre is that?
I also think you are able to speak your mind more openly that you would say if we knew each other and met face to face. We are imprisoned by social acceptance too often.
Maybe blogging is the new drug of choice and allows us to throw caution to the wind?
By
Dawn Rossbach, at 9/10/2005 1:33 PM
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