What in the world is up with the world of blogs? Blogs are meant to be this great new technology that allows people to share their ideas and interests with others around the globe. As far as I’m concerned, the state of blogs is one of chaos, confusion, and anti-interactivity.What in the world is up with the world of blogs? Blogs are meant to be this great new technology that allows people to share their ideas and interests with others around the globe. As far as I’m concerned, the state of blogs is one of chaos, confusion, and anti-interactivity.
The other day I decided to do some research on the Web and try to connect with some blog writers that interested me. Let me tell you it was not as enjoyable a task as I had envisioned. I spent four painful hours surfing through near a thousand online journals, and I found only a few that were interesting. What are we doing out there, people?
First of all, just getting to a blog can be a pain in the arse. For example, if you search for sites using the words “philosophy blogs,” a whole bunch of sites come up. Some are conglomerate sites with thousands of journals, but the area you’re searching for may have only one blog in it! This is because they separate the blogs into a million different categories, like “love,” “lovers,” “lovable” etc. Why not have just a few main categories to choose from?
The next problem is the content. People with “philosophical” blogs are usually just having personal chats with their mates about the local dance competition on Tuesday! Why not go to a chat room if you just want to talk to your friends? Blogs are supposed to be a personal viewpoint expressed to the whole Web community. Wouldn’t you actually like to meet more people like yourself? How is this going to happen if you talk in strange uncommon slang and use acronyms that only you and your friends can understand? Please stick to the subject at hand, and take it at least half seriously.
Another major problem with blogs is the fact that you can sometimes find a really cool blog that sparks an interest only to discover that the writer hasn’t added an entry in over a year! What’s it doing on the Net? Have these people passed away? I seriously doubt it, as there are so many blogs in this lost state. Having a blog is a responsibility; it’s a shared diary for the whole community. How can someone form a relationship with you if you only write in your blog once a millennium?
Back to the subject of content: These online journals are a real chance to communicate regularly with others with similar views to yours. We can learn a lot from each other, as each human is an individual with special traits and skills that only he or she has. So why do we see so many blogs just talking about trivial nonsense like who the coolest movie actor is? Humanity is an intelligent species evolving everyday towards a higher consciousness. So where are all the thinkers out there, the people who have taken us to the next levels of spirituality and scientific exploration? I’d really like to hear what you’ve got to say, but all I can find are philosophical beliefs on why died pink jeans express one’s true inner self.
The issue of making comments on someone’s blog is also a controversial one. Why have a “comments section” if you’re not going to reply to people who have expressed an interest in what you’ve had to say? How is this community going to function if all the conversation is one way? Come on people, wake up and smell the onions! Let’s change the blogging community into the awesome structure of shared knowledge for which it was intended. Please don’t let it turn into the small talk world of chat rooms.
Jesse S. Somer is a concerned human attempting to inform his fellow people of the real possibilities hidden in the Internet. To talk philosphy, visit www.thepowerofeverythingthatis.com.
