I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that, after a somewhat frantic display of blogging activity, that I wouldn't touch the bloody thing for a month.
Really I just came to post about my friend overseas starting his own blog. I say "starting" like he's just put pen to paper, when in reality he began posting around the time I started this one; in this case it's more like he's "starting" to tell his friends he has one. Is that proper blogging etiquette? Do friends pimp out their own blogs to each other in a desperate attempt to gain readership? Hell, I doubt anyone's going to read this post, let alone my handful of friends who have better things to do... like, I don't know, breathing.
That's probably the reason why I've let this electronic diary languish on the interwebs: readers. I don't have any. Sure, there's the cathartic element of firing your thoughts out of your head and onto a string of spare bits, but if no one's paying attention it doesn't much matter to me. Same thing with my artwork or random attempts to come out of lurkerdom on various forums - they're all basic shouts in the dark to gain recognition in a digital nation where Mentos and diet soda fountain videos get hundreds of thousands of hits and "no u dont u idort" is valid intellectual conversation.
Otherwise, why bother? I can keep my thoughts to myself if that's the alternative, thank you very much.
4 comments:
It's likely the lack of wandering around forums that causes the lack of readership. We'd need to wander around the PA forums and pretend to care about things to get any amount of attention, I suspect.
In my case, my babbling is effectively to let everyone else know what's up over on this side of the planet, so it might be less about attention and more about "I don't want to type this 6 times."
I didn't mean that to be as emo as it came out, and let it be known that I'm not an attention whore. Otherwise I'd have a larger viewership. Odd, that ;p.
I had similar thoughts, but I can't say something like, "I talked about that on my blog," without seeming like an arrogant prick. Your mileage may vary.
You've gotta be more subtle about it. Message boards are all about having a cool-with-a-K sig that cons other people into clicking on it.
As much as it goes against what you and I probably think the world probably ought to be, there are an amazing number of people who desperately want to know what other people have to say. Make what you're saying pretty enough and you've got yourself a readership.
CAN'T SLEEP, BLOGS TO READ, LIVES TO VICARIOUSLY ENJOY, OPINIONS TO TAKE AS MY OWN, BBL.
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