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| Written by Jono Cono I read a funny article today about a Calgary author who says Bloggers are just a lonely bunch. The also suggested that blogs can create feelings of loneliness for those who aren’t lucky enough to reach “celebrity” status. Well if all Bloggers are to be lumped into that generalization I would have to disagree.
I certainly don’t blog because I’m lonely and neither does blogging make me lonely. I don’t blog to attain any sort of celebrity status either. Blogging for me is just an outlet, it’s my space that I can use how I want whether I just want to share ongoings with friends and family or voice my opinion on things happening in the world. It’s my soapbox where I can sound off on whatever I please, if five people or five hundred people read it I have already said what I wanted to say.
I also find in a world where everything is dumbed down including many people’s mental faculties you can imagine how difficult and rare it is to hold an intelligent, thought provoking conversation with someone. Nay, people are too busy talking about what they watched on TV the night before and other insignificant banter. Yet through my blog I can voice my thoughts which would otherwise go unheard. I can be as eloquent and verbose as I wish, for what I want to be said I shall say with no prerequisite to dumb it down. Read or unread, heard or unheard, I have already thought the thoughts and articulated the words!
Frustrating, but not lonely. I’m always upset when I write what I consider to be an A+ post and either A) Technorati doesn’t ping it for reasons I still rarely understand.
Or B) No one reads it.
That’s upsetting, since the every day post is usually just a post, but a great post deserves to be read out loud.
Also, I suppose it can be lonely because no one ever comments on small blogs. Still, when they do, that’s always cool.