Do you ever look back at your old blog posts and cringe? Even just a little? I have occasionally winced but not enough to ever take one down because at the time, I thought it was ok. Therefore it's history. And anyway compared to re-reading old journals, which is enough to make one feel nauseous, they are nothing. Maybe a bit of bad syntax here or some fuzzy thinking there. Sometimes a quiet and wholly inappropriate moan. Why do I ask this? Well I was talking to someone the other day who was almost googly eyed at the idea that any sane, semi-intelligent person would want to spend time writing bits about their life for strangers to read. And the fact which made their eyes positively swivel was that it is unpaid. Just as baffling to them was why anyone would want to spend time actually reading snippets of other people's daily lives. People you've never met and will probably never meet? Isn't that a bit sad. Isn't that a bit nar-sar-cistic? (their pronunciation)
I didn't want to come across like a crazed evangelical because the truth is, unless you actually do it and give yourself over to it, you cannot possibly understand. And when you say it out loud, it can sound a bit sad. But it's not. It's really, really not and I could list 100 reasons why it's a good thing. But I won't. I'll list 10.
1 Horizons (broadened)
2 Knowledge (gained)
3 Compassion (ties in with knowledge)
4 Affirmation (that there are good people in the world. Loads of them. In fact they are the majority.
5 Humour (very important)
6 Friendship (It may be cyber but that's fine)
7 Support (again it may be cyber but it's better than none)
8 Empowering ( strong word maybe, but it's always nice to hit that 'Publish' button).
9 Light relief (and oh how we need that)
10 Care to add one?
Suffice to say, I kept schtum about my little pin-prick space in the blogosphere. The person in question can continue to read blogs in newspapers (apparently 'that's different').
But I have a feeling - a sense that blogging is changing, just ever so slightly. A teeny tiny shift. Not ours individually perhaps but overall. As online communities grow and people feel accepted, blogs are becoming more conversation driven and less 'look at me, aren't I clever/funny/buy what I'm selling'. I know that I steer clear of blogs where the author never reciprocates. I refuse to become a fan. Having said that, I do read some that have a 'no comment' facility and that's fine. I go there to learn something.
How can I make such a sweeping statement, you may ask? Does she have 2 million blogs in her Google Reader? Actually it's 137 but as I said it's just a feeling. Is it something to do with the economic downturn that makes people want to reach out? Is it to do with the fact we are more isolated from friends and family nowadays and just want to chat? Is it something to do with the fact that in a media driven world, we all want our say - to be heard and to listen?
Is it a bit of everything? Am I mistaken? I don't know. As I said, it's just feeling and I have faith in 'feelings'.
Apologies for the length of this post. I don't what came over me. Normal length and trivia will follow. And I look forward to reading yours (obviously not trivial) in the coming year.
63 comments:
I really enjoyed your post Lane. I feel the same - blog writers must reciprocate. I've read a few posts where bloggers wonder why they don't receive comments, and it's usually because they aren't commenting themselves. It feels like a co-op community - you must give to receive - people who don't make the effort to say a few words on other blogs are being greedy I feel, because comments are the life-blood of blogs.
Sorry about the lengthly rant! I wanted to add that I really enjoy your posts, they are always entertaining and thought-provoking. Keep it up!
I completely agree with your Top Ten. Comments are a big part of blogging. How else would you want to keep going?
I also agree with Yvonne, it's a community and co-op certainly comes close. It's give and take.
And, 137 blogs in your Google Reader? How do you find the time to read all these?!
(10) It's absorbing.
I just wrote a post about my Grandma, who died about 10 years ago. It was miles better to spend an hour thinking about her, and thinking of words to express my memories of her, than it would have been spending an hour watching TV.
I also have tried explaining blogging to certain people, who have left me feeling like a bit of a nerd. Oh well, at least YOU understand!
(10) Connection. I am amazed at the connections I have made with people who live elsewhere in the world, people I've never met, will never meet, people whose lives are different from mine in so many ways.
But there are people I am simpatico with that I have fonud through blogs, people who understand what I'm trying to say, and who I think I understand. Reading their posts, reading their comments, I learn something, I understand things better, I get a different take on things.
And I'm with you on the reciprocity thing--- I no longer respond to every comment I get, and I probably should. But blogs where I am never acknowledged? I leave them pretty quickly. It's a one-sided show.
Lovely post, Lane.
If people think it's 'sad', I can live with that. If people don't get it, that's okay with me. I do.
I know what I've got from all this and I cherish it.
well written and insightful, lane... you echo many of the thoughts drifting around in my mind and worded your viewpoint well...
you (and all commenters so far) are so right about the reciprocating thing... not that i need validation for what i've written but if i make a point or venture an angle on what's been written and the response is zero, it makes me question what the point is really...
keep well...
Laurie pinned the tenth one. Connection. I've never connected with anyone as well as I do with people I've met online. It's not that I'm a buffoon or the elephant woman, or anything like that, and I believe I'm equally personable in both situations. But online, the world is our community and you have a greater chance of meeting up with someone you click with. In person, you'd never walk up to a complete stranger and start telling them about your dreams, passions, and inner most feelings. (chuckling at the thought of that) but on a blog most people throw that caution to the wind, and just say it like it is. ... And then magic happens; People that relate start hanging about.
... Trouble is, I just wish that this: ((((((HUGS))))) could be felt a little bit better, because when I write I really do mean it.
((((HUGS)))) ... And Thank you Lane. :)
Good post! I wonder whether there's something old-fashioned about blogging in that we are actually reaching out, connecting, giving something of themselves that hasn't happened since people chatted over the garden fence.
Long may it continue - I love being allowed snippets and trinkets of other peoples' livesand the friendships those ignite.
Hurrah!
Great post Lane. For me its the connection thing and the learning. I just know when I haven't been able to blog or visit others I feel a part of me is missing now........God know what that says about me!
lx
Excellent post Ms Lane - very thought provoking methinks.
Just bear with me whilst I ponder a response.
(A very long pause.......)
Right, I agee with your list (No 4is soooo right). This may sound pants but I wonder if blogging is a kind of alternative to the Church that provides one with a sense of belonging to a community where you're accepted for who or what you are. But, then again I'm not sure - for do we reveal only the good parts of ourselves when blogging?
Holy moses woman, I need to ponder some more....
TFx
Strangely, perhaps, I have not gone back and read my earlier posts! I often cringe about what I have said in the past - even my distant past - so I expect I would really really cringe at my first posts. By the way, Lane, thanks for your help when I was just starting out.
This was such a good idea for a post, Lane and I've also spoken to someone who cannot understand Blog Love one little bit and, as I heard myself trying to explain to her what it meant to me, I could hear myself fumbling for the right words to express what I do indeed get from it.
I feel very close to some bloggers and find myself wondering how they are getting on - after they've blogged about troubles or problems in their lives.I suppose with so much Big News in the media about which we can't really do very much, popping in to see the minutiae of other people's lives is far more real.
I sometimes post on blogs who never comment on their comments or come and visit me but, after a couple of weeks, I cast them out. I like the interaction.
I also like reading the comments on blogs that I like and have found many good blogs that way.
I'm also sorry to go on - I do tend to overdo it on commenting.Hope the knee is better - you haven't peeled the skin off, have you?
x
(11) Practice!
I agree with what others have said and don't feel shy in commenting on the blogs of complete strangers. I dpoubt very much I'd have the confidence to speak to this people if faced with them in the flesh!
I totally agree with the interactive bit, and yes, it is a bit like gossiping over the back fence as Spiral said. And as Yvonne said, you have to give to receive. I'm sure some bloggers can exist in a bubble but it can't be as much fun.
I comment on most blogs but by no means all -- especially some of the publisher's blogs.
Yvonne - Thank you:-) I agree. There just doesn't seem any point to one sided blogging. It's got to be a two way thing or I'm not interested.
Babaloo - I don't read all 137 every day:-) Some rarely post, some are book or news ones that I scan. I'm always pleased to see a new Fairymix one though:-)
GBS - That's such a lovely way to remember your Grandmother. An hour so well spent, I'd say.
Laurie - spot on and you put it better than I could. The connections made are very special and it never ceases to amaze me.
I don't always answer individually either. It depends on the post and time available.
JJ - True. As long as we know, that's all that matters.
Bart - thank you:-) You're right, it's not validation but it's nice to know via comments that people are 'there'.
Dar - magic happens. Ain't that the truth:-) And this is real too ...
((((hugs))):-):-)
Spiral - I think it does fill the 'garden fence' gap. We just don't have to wear headscarves and hang out washing at the same time:-)
Liz F - Breaks are good. Forced breaks are awful. I know just what you mean:-)
Tom Foolery - I think we're selective about what parts of ourselves we reveal but I think most people are pretty honest and reveal at least an 'essence' of themselves . Are you still pondering?:-)
Lindsay - who hasn't got something to cringe about? I cringe just thinking about what I've got to cringe about:-)
French Fancy - Agree totally. It makes the world smaller and in a way, less frightening as we connect with different people.
Not quite at the peel stage yet. Just waiting for scabs:-)
Tam - Me neither. It's so much easier to use words. Written words:-)
Oh my oh my. You've got a good one here and one that really pushed my proverbial button (although I seem to be late in reading this -- why does that always happen?). Anyway, I have had this discussion several times and I find it very difficult to explain why blogging is important to me, what role it plays in my life and work and why it isn't nar-sar-cistic. I admit I started my blog to publicize my work and there's no dishonour in that. But its become much more than that, and the word "community" comes to mind in a big way. There are well-established writers who don't need to blog in order to publicize their work but who do it regularly anyway (George Szirtes is one marvelous one). And bringing up the idea of payment! Please, don't get me started. Since when do writers ever write just for pay? Obviously, you've pressed a button of mine...Sorry, I'm going on too long. But suffice it to say, I'm with you!
Helenmh - I suppose it depends why you blog. I definitely fall into the garden fence category:-)
Leatherdykeuk - Me neither. I don't really comment on the publishers ones or the 'big' ones.
SueG - great comment. I agree there's absolutely nothing wrong with publicizing one's work (and I hope to do the same one day:-) but it's also so much more than that. And thank you for reminding me about George Szirtes. I used to read him ages ago and really enjoyed his writing. I'll add him again. That's now 138:-)
Have a look at this Guardian piece, "Why is the idea of online friendships still treated with such disdain?" - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/02/internet-relationships
I think you're spot on, Lane. Blogging - our blogging, is less and less about Narcissism, and more and more about longer term friendships. And it is very old fashioned. The Victorians conducted whole friendships and love affairs by correspondence.
Blogs are just open letters, that you can comment on, and add pictures, videos and music too, and a few other gadgets. But at it's heart, it's all rather Jane Austen.
I think blogging is one of the best things that has ever happened to me from a social point of view. It allows me to 'mingle' without mingling and for someone like me that is quite seriously important. I've 'met' and met (in RL post blog meets) some really great people who have enhanced my life in so many ways. xo
What a wonderful post, perfectly expressed :o))
My mum doesn't understand The Need to Blog, even when I explained to her that I wouldn't have had any short stories published last year without the Story a Fortnight blog, or even carried on with my writing at all if it weren't for the tremendous 'cyber' support from my lovely, blogging friends.
I agree with your top nine and would add that, from a writerly point of view, I love 'talking' to people who understand the peculiar process and struggle of popping out words.
In fact, thinking about it I'm sure you lot know more about me than anyone in Real Life!
I don't think I could give it up if I tried, and I wouldn't want to. So there :o)
Wonderful post, Lane.
I love the 'over the garden fence' idea, as that's exactly how it seems. I have to admit that I found the idea of blogging/commenting/telling people I'd never met things about me, all a little odd before I began bloggin myself.
Now, though, like Karen, my cyber friends probably know more about me than most of the people who see me nearly every day.
I've received so much support, learnt more than I would have thought possible, and thoroughly enjoyed getting to 'know' people during my first year blogging. I love it.
Lane, you have picked me up on something. I often do not reply to comments - so I will from now!
Brilliant post, Lane. I agree with Spiral Skies, but would add a 10th - Choice. We can choose who to communicate with in cyberspace through blogging, and can be as transparent or as veilled as we like.
Lane, I was reading an article yesterday which suggested that the economic downturn will engender more of a sense of community amongst people. That is readily enhanced by blogging.
When something good happens, the first person I tell is Bobo and the next people I tell are my blog chums.
Here's to blogging!
The blogosphere is totally a community... I do not know of a single committed, friendly, funny, caring blogger who would not say the same thing. As for those who don't comment on their comments: *BIG THUMBS DOWN*!
Laura x
Hi Lane
I 'see' you often but rarely visit. I loved reading this post and have delighted in the friends that I have met over the last 9 months.
Your list is perfect! It is the lack of a non virtual community that I miss and blogging fills that gap. :)
Best wishes for 2009
Right, pondering over..... My conclusion is: - You and your readers above sum up the essence of blogging perfectly.
10 out of 10 A* keep those word flowing m'dear TFxx
Great post.
I didn't "get" blogging until I started and now it's a part of my life. I've conversed with so many nice, witty, thoughtful people in the blogosphere; and I've met some of them in "real" life as well.
I write what I want to and when I want to. As I live abroad, it's also a way of giving friends and family info about what we're up to (I also have a private blog that isn't open to the public where I can post more pix and videos for the family).
So, yes, I guess I love blogging!
Great and wonderful feelings I think!:)
McBobo - what a great piece. Thank you. She just about sums it up - as do you. I quite like the idea of being 'rather Jane Austen':-)
DJ - enhance. Doesn't it just. And the bloggers I've met in RL too have been just the same as they are on the blog:-)
Karen - so no giving it up then. We know far too much about you:-)
And I agree. In RL I don't know many people who like to write. Almost none in fact, so it's brill to talk to like-minders:-)
Debs - well put:-) And here's to another productive year in your shed with regular updates on your progress and Grumpy:-)
Lindsay - please don't think I mean people should always answer their comments. I just think it's nice to dip in sometimes and acknowledge:-)
Annie - true - I hadn't thought of that. There's an element of control isn't there:-)
Hulla - I think that's certainly true. The last thing people want to feel in a crisis is isolated.
Laura JW - you're back! Hi there:-)
It so is a community:-)
Suburbia - I see you around a lot too. Hi! This blogging thing sure does fill a lot of gaps:-)
Tom Foolery - Thank you. I think everybody has summed it up pretty well eh:-)
Dumdad -I remember not 'getting it' too and yet now it's totally embedded in my day to day life.
Leon Basin - Hi there and welcome. And thanks:-)
My (10) would be "connection" with a bit of a twist -- the thing I find so amazing is that, by connecting in this largely anonymous space, many of us start to discover how alike we really are in the end. There's almost a spiritual connection that takes place a lot of the time, I think.
An excellent post as always. Thought provoking and intelligently put. I for one have found the blogworld a real help, it sometimes easier to "talk" to people you haven't met.
well you've obviously touched a chord there, Lane! I would add that I sometimes writing a post therapeutic. If something's been bothering me, I can put it OUT THERE and I really do feel better.
It fascinates me that the female to male bloggers ratio seems to be about 7:1. I haven't come up any definitive theory as to why that is but I can tell by the readership of my own blog as well as a quick review of others' comments that this is so. So perhaps for (10) It's a girly thing (but where does that leave me?).
Eighteen months ago, I also thought bloggers were sad - go get a real life - was my attitude; but since I started blogging, my own life has been hugely enhanced by the interaction I've had with other bloggers (except for the severe depletion of my wine cellar whenever Helen comes to stay).
And what do the rest of the population do that is so real by comparison? Watch reality TV and play the Wii?
Good top ten. I think blogging brings more understanding of lifestyles that are very different from our own....I know that I've said it before, but I don't think Bush would have invaded Iraq had he been a blogger....
Adrienne- Good twist and I'm nodding in agreement. It's very 'affirming' I think:-)
Sheepish - Agreed (and thank you). I suppose they don't come with the baggage of those who know you.
Flowerpot - and isn't it a great feeling:-)
East Anglian Troy - it does seem to be female heavy doesn't it. I have no theories either but I like it. You do too, don't you:-)
Leigh - Exactly! Nothing 'real' about that. And I might sneak in Helen's suitcase next time then. Sounds good:-)
TBNIL - I don't think he would either. Now I wonder what he'd do if he read your blog;-)
The ratio of women compared to men on blogger is an easy one. I think more woman feel isolated compared to men, and I don't know much about how men feel but I think women crave connection more. I think it's in our nature.
Great post, Lane. Thanks for dropping by to comment on my blog.
Hope 2009 is being good to you so far!
Great post, Lane!
It's interesting, I've also sensed a shift and wondered if it was just me - or if it was something to do with a sense of community that has been created amongst people who've been blogging together for a while - though of course, some go, some stay, new ones arrive. There is definitely a greater sense of connectedness, of friendship - I wonder if other blogs and bloggers are experiencing the same - especially those that are perhaps more technical or focussed.
As for blogging being "sad" - bah humbug! Ya gotta know it to appreciate it!
Interesting analysis Lane. I guess blogging is a bit like village life. Small enough to be involved, giving you some privacy when you feel like it.
Hi Lane,
I've been meaning to visit your blog for ages and I'm so glad I did. People are strange. Mind you my hubby dosen't quite get the blogging thing either, although he reads my posts when he thinks I'm not looking. One day I'll write something rude about him lust to see the look on his face!
I like your blog very much and will be back, thanks.
I think your nine reasons are all excellent. And I think reciprocation is important. One reason I keep disappearing faster than Houdini is that I may have an idea but know that I'll never get around to knocking on my friends' cyber doors or responding to comments, which doesn't seem right since communities are formed. I have a music blog (Beatles-oriented and somehwhat self-promotional), but it is, as you say, for info, and so I don't offer comment options. I can hit-and-run with posts with a good conscience that I'm not snubbing anyone. I guess my #10 would be that it is actually a way of getting back to writing those lovely letters the way people did ont to two centuries ago, as in Jane Austen novels. The thrill of finding a letter and the connection it made with someone in the next county! "My Dear Ms. Entwhistle: It has been ever so long since we have visited Hightower, but rest assured that as soon as grandmother's fever has subsided, we shall take the carriage by for a visit." Those were charming missives, and I think people learned a lot about each other. Wouldn't it be a hoot to have a blog where everyone wrote like that? :) For antiquarians.
But very interesting question about the nature of blogging changing. I personally enjoy the personal, chatty blogs that actually sound like chapters from a memoir in progress. The world is getting bigger and colder, and personal blogs keep the sense of community going in an otherwise impersonal world. Now ... can someone help me find time to blog and still tend to those non-virtual chores in the real world?
But as to the changing nature of blogs ... younger people are confining themselves to the text that can fit on a blackberry or iPhone.
Excuse the rambling :)
What a great post, and I mean all the comments as well! Thanks for this one! Me being a German and not really "belonging" into your "English speaking" world only started blogging after my friend Val pushed me and said I could really write about ANYTHING, so I did. And what happened? I got the loveliest comments from all these strangers, and as Adrianne said, we all found out how ALIKE we really are, and I met some new friends who even write me personally now. - I am really thrilled with blogging, it has added so much colour to my life. How else could I learn so much about the weather in Toronto, Jewish holidays, the habits of young warthogs, some Kiswaheli, and that this is the Year of the Nose - all on one day?!!
Hi Lane,
very guilty of not leaving comments on blogs, but always think everyone else blog comments are already saying what I want to say! Are we turning making friends into online shopping like Tesco home delivery? Is that because we all have busy lives, or we can't be bothered to get out? I really love the blog life and will commit this year, if only to get things of my chest.
Frankie x
Lane,
you are so right, your ten reasons (although it's actually 9) speak to me, that is why I blog. I have even been embarrassed recently at having to do the "please buy my book" thing, and have tried as much as possible to focus more on me and just sharing about myself. For me, blogging has created a community that isn't present where I live, and the support I get from it is something I treasure deeply. I have made such great blogger friends, and am always astonished at their boundless kindness and generosity (see Nik's recent blog post for example). They don't need to do this, do they? But, as you say in Number 4, the majority of people out there are good, and that is something that really helps in everyday life.
Number 10? Inspiration - following links from my blogger friends' blogs to their own writing and other writing, which I may never have found.
Thanks for this, keep blogging!
Tania
Dar - I think you've put it a nutshell:-)
K.Imaginelli - Thanks. And you too:-)
Absolute - I'm glad you sense that too. I wondered whether it was just because we've been blogging for a while and have built up connections. Now I wonder?
Ernest - Village life is a good way of putting it. A very varied village:-)
Clare P - Hi there. I've seen you around too:-) Write something about your hubby and he might be prompted to write his own blog. Then he'll 'get it':-)
Billy - I was going to write a reply in the style of an Austen missive but couldn't do it:-) Suffice to say, sometimes, we blog and comment, sometimes it just has to take a back seat. It ebbs and flows as life dictates.
As for younger people blogging, I agree. I asked the Teenager whether it would appeal, and although much college work is now done via blogs (!) she couldn't see it. Facebook and one liners rule. Guess it's up to us oldies then:-)
Angela - Great comment and nice to 'meet' you. Like you, I'd never have learnt some weird and wonderful things and people's take on them. It's the Year of Nose? Well I'll be darned:-)
Frankie - lol - at 'online shopping'. I don't think blogging replaces real life friends. Far from it. I just think it enhances real life:-) Also, I don't think comments are mandatory. Neither is saying anything deep and meaningful. Just the odd 'Hi' is enough to make it a two-way thing.
Hope your house is almost done and you're not freezing too much whilst waiting:-)
Tania Hershman - Hi there! As I said to Sue G previously, I think promoting your work through a blog is great. It's more than great, it's necessary, it's empowering and it's no different to word of mouth in real life except that the audience is potentially huge. And audiences aren't daft. They know the difference between someone who shamelessly promotes but gives nothing back and one who does.
I've heard wonderful things about your book and am off to order it today:-)
Gosh, that opened a debate, didn't it? Good subject, Lane. I've come to the conclusion that I know I'm not writing a blog to show-off, I mean, sheesh!, there isn't a lot to show off about, I blog because I enjoy it and I enjoy reading other blogs. Those who 'do' understand and I'm not terribly fussed if those who 'don't' are a bit sniffy about it.
"Do you ever look back at your old blog posts and cringe?"
Oh yes ~ more often than I could possibly count!
:-)
I wish I had more time to blog. And to comment. But I rarely leave comments un-replied-to. So, err, yay me?
I think blogging's always been that way. I developed a very deep friendship with a fellow blogger in 1999. She lives in the US, but she visited in 2000, and is coming back this year :) She said something way back then that blogging/communicating online would be seen in the future as the equivalent of going for a coffee or a pint and chatting with your friends and I think she's right.
I personally think it's just that more people know about it now. Back then it was just Tori Amos fansites that things revolved around. To the best of my knowledge :)
I have to agree with you in that it has broadened horizons as such and taught me a bit or two about how the other side of the world lives and also an easy platform to share words and interests with others...and I get to meet great people/writers like yourself...
I LOVED this blog Lane and the fact that by the time I read it today, it has 54 comments on it rests your case. There are a lot of people out there, mostly lovely kind people who use this medium to touch each others lives. I for one would miss blogging and my online life. (Okay...that DOES sound a bit sus but you know what I mean!) Great post and happy new year. I hope 2009 is a brill one for you and yours. Fx
What a great post. I hate being a fan too. Blogs are conversations - with each other and with their readers.
I agree you have to comment. It is arrogant to accept comments and never acknowledge them. We all know that to a great degree our blogs hopefully work well as a window to our writing and that as a marketing tool they may just keep us going when things get tough - i.e. people giving encouragement through comments but they are also converations that are organically happening online. Great fun and you make so many good points in this post.
Fabulous post hon!!! I started my blog as a way of keeping in touch with friends and family back home but it's become much much more than that!! I never dreamt that I would make so many friends through blogging but I treasure each and every one of them!!
As for your friend....well, she doesn't know what she's missing!!
C x
Lovely post, Lane, and I agree heartily. My tenth would be that it's a fun way to journal/chronicle for people like me who don't do the notebook kind.
Your #4 really resonated with me (they all did, actually). With all the negativity in the media it's a relief to find that there are so many good, generous, supportive people out there.
ChrisH - Agreed and not a lot to 'show off' about here either:-)
Kate K - :-) Look back and cringe. I know. I know:-)
B - 1999! I didn't know what a blog was then. Your friend had foresight:-)
Great that you're seeing her this year too.
Aminah - Back atchya m'dear. I'm glad I discovered a certain resident of Norway:-)
Fionnuala - I know exactly what you mean. Hope 2009 is very good to you too:-)
Jenn - That's it. Conversation. Seems a bit pointless without it:-)
MOB - Definitely a good means of support to keep us going. And fun too:-)
Carol - And I would never have learnt so much about Thailand and how it is too live there. All the best on your move m'dear. You must be rushed off your feet. x
Wordtyst - it's heartening isn't it, that the internet isn't actually clogged with nasty weirdos. Not in our neck of blog land anyway:-)
Facebook. My brother egged me on to join for a lark. Do people really need to know such important info as "I am now getting ready to drive to Steve's." [later that day] "I am now returning from Steve's." The young 'uns seem to chronicle their lives in newspaper headline style.
What a great post and comments. I am glad I stopped by and that I am making a comment. I go through stages of thinking about the nonsense that is churned out onto my blog, but I have always thought of my blog as an emotional filing cabinet - the nonsense it better out than in, and, if I do manage to write something slightly creative and of interest to another, who then leaves a comment, then I feel empowered and encouraged to continue with my drivel
Blimey, Lane, what a lot of comments. If you ever get to the end of them you'll find out that I have indeed tagged you - sorry.
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