An Actual Post

So, finally, an actual post. Tsk.

I actually wasn't enthusiastic about starting a blog, but that couldn't really be helped, so I guess that feeling will have to be shelved. Why wasn't I enthusiastic? Bad experiences I suppose.

Don't get me wrong, some blogs are actually really really enjoyable to read. I happen to browse through a few webcomics, and the artists post up their thoughts on a lot of things all the time, some are entertaining, some are profound, and some are just another way to look at things. My wife blog hops whenever she has a lot of free time and nothing better to do (I probably have my head stuck in a video game at the time), and sometimes I pop into the room and peek over her shoulder at something interesting, which is cool. So at this point in time, I know that blogging is something which can be positive. At this point in time.

Unfortunately, my first few experiences with blogs led me down the negative path of thinking, years back when the trend suddenly started to boom. See, most of the blogs I happened across were basically... How do you put this... Online emo-pityme-whinefests. With the occassional "I'msocool" post. Explain? Alright. Whine, whine, whine, life sucks, whine, whine, please take pity on me, whine whine, I'm so helpless even though God gave me ten fingers and toes just like everyone else, whine whine, my troubles are unique, whine, zomg I attended (insert underground stuff) today that makes me ubercool, oh wait, no events today, back to whining.

Now, expressing yourself is all well and good. If something bad happens, you can tell your friends, no problem. It's healthy. But making blogs a stepping stone for some kind of pity-fest so that random people you don't even know who happen across your blog somehow and decide to tell you that wow, your life really >HAS< been tough, omg, you're so strong, don't worry, you'll endure, rarararar, just to make yourself feel good, I think that's just embracing patheticness. Done on a private blog, where only your closest friends have access to your posts, yeah, all well and good. Doing it daily on a public blog? No. Bad dog.

I'm of the school of thought that public blogging should be done sensibly. Make posts funny. Make them interesting. Make them non-sensical. Make them profound. Mention troubles if you need to, but don't dwell on them needlessly day after day, because you're not being emo, you're just begging for attention in the cheapest way possible.




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You know, if emos were really emo, there would be no emos as soon as they decided they were emo?