No one cares about reading other people’s boring lives.
Sometimes I like to survey people with the most random questions thrown at their faces, and one of the things I did today at my long and very tedious five hour orientation for some university was to ask readers on what they were looking for in a blog.
The orientation was specifically directed towards graphic and web designers, so I knew they were an internet geek like me. My inane questions on blogging had erratically lead to a storm of what turned out to be an excellent group discussion.
Essentially, we were ranting, ranting about what they didn’t want to read in a blog. And basically, it’s your life.
If you must talk about how you went to work today and chewed sugar-free gum that you swore had sugar in it, then at least, for the love of rice, TRY to make it funny. Trust me, you can find a lot of humor in a lot of situations no matter how simple or complex the story is.
Though if you think that turning it into something comical would fabricate the story and lose its accuracy then don’t talk about it at all.
If truly have a sorry ass life, then talk about the past instead of the present. My new acquaintances had given me the idea to write about my childhood, and boy, do I have SOME stories to brag.
I know some of you are suffering from a writer’s block but you can talk about like, how you use to—ever so discreetly—smear your snot and boogers on your brother’s back for decapitating your Malibu barbie, and how you and your old pal from first grade use to spy on the neighbors getting a tan in the backyard…topless!
You can never go wrong with talking about your childhood. I don’t know about you guys, but my life, as a child, was pretty exhilarating and packed with adventures than it was now.
So if you’re having a blog-fart, I dare you to divulge your wackiest/weirdest/funniest childhood moments.
i think it depends on why you’re writing a blog. some people are writing it for them so they don’t really care if others read it or not. while others are writing one to have lots and lots of readers. or just the person is so damn famous so every obsessed fan wants to read about every detail about their life.
but yes.. childhood stories are a great idea! innocently hilarious xD
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LOL @ the subtitle.
It’s interesting to see what the general consensus of your group discussion was. I agree with Leanne, the “why” matters. Some use their blogs as journal. Or others, like myself, just use it to type about subjects they’re interested in.
But, I guess if you just want to please those who may (or may not) be reading. This post is a good guide.
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OMG. I can’t write about my childhood because I had a friend who was really messed up as a child. Raped, molested, abused… So I never had too much exciting childhood lives because I’d just keep her away from trouble as much as I could and I was very sheltered. Lol.
Um I do remember a specific time when I started middle school.
Ok so I went to middle school where it was combined with a high school.
So my first day I had this big fucking backpack and I brought all the school supplies that they asked to bring in my backpack and that shit was heavy like I was walking hunch backed. I never had any siblings old enough to tell me that you never had to take everything with you. So like a dork I brought that shit all with me.
One of my elementary classmates did the same thing, mind you, she was the only child too so she carried everything also, but she was a big girl so she could hold her own. She bitched about how her bag was heavy and I said me too, but being young she of course wanted to be the triumphant one, she told me “let me see” so she grabbed the handle, lifted it up and said “it’s not heavy” then she let go and I fell back. On top of that, I was fucking on a 1 and a half foot curb and I was on the fucking ground like a turtle on my back swaying back and fourth trying to get up.
Fucking bitch. Then towards the end of my seventh grade year, her 300 pound ass fell on my left hand and it swelled to three times its size.
Did I mention that she was that big?!?!?!??!! OMG. HAHAHA. See you made me relive my childhood. LOL. *kicks.
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ohhhhhhhh the boogers! all i remember from my childhood was … chocolate malts
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lolz =)
so true. which is why i keep my blog short and twitter-like. my attention span flies around like… well, like a fly. i read the end, the headline, a sentence in the beginning, then like, one sentence in the middle. that’s how i read this entry. that’s how i read most entries.
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I think a lot of it depends on the motivation for the blog. I have to work on sites & discuss blogs (government blogs for that matter) all day long at work, so for me my blog is a total brain dump. Scrapbook, diary, and perhaps time-line. Because I understand what I want in my blog (connection with people who share my interests rather than a place where I can achieve some greater good or earn an income) I don’t really share it with many “real life people” or at work as some example to follow. I respect those who have what I’d call “proper blogs.” Informative, focused, clean, and more welcoming to the visitor rather than a girly self-indulgent blabfest like mine. (hahahahah)
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omg tiff i just read your customer service entry about your job… WTF. That guy is such an asshole. I do the same thing though, I have a temper and it sometimes goes off and once it went off in a bank and i started yelling at the bank manager for hiring an incompetent mid-30s banker who didn’t know shit about what he was doing and my dad threatened to pull out our entire assetts and the bank manager thought he was bluffing so she called his bluff but then when she tried to submit the paperwork to remove our account the headquarters called her and told her to back the fuck off because actually my dad is a “really good customer” of theirs.
anyway. my childhood was kind of quaint and boring and full of things like being chased by bees and nothing much exciting. i think more exciting stuff happens to me now, actually. probably also because i’m more extroverted now too though.
blogs should just be funny/entertaining or informative. i don’t really care about the private lives of strangers but i read Susie Bubble obsessively (the fashion blog from a HK Londoner) and I check your blog whenever I remember because I know it’ll be funny. I also check a few photo blogs because I know I’ll like the photos and it’s a great visual way of sharing stories.
I like your new theme/layout, it’s cuute. also, are you still going for acting? I didn’t make it to M.I.A., tickets were jacked up to $90 and they were originally $35 so I was fucked that up. I’m going to Ladytron & Datarock soon though… which makes me feel slightly better.
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I wanna hear your childhood stories!!!
There are so many different types of blogs…I feel like mine is like a small journal were I just write about random crap/obsessions/stories…etc..and hopefully along the way someone will find it interesting hahaha…though that’s not my aim~
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I actually wrote an article on “blogging 101″ and what NOT to blog about: basically, nobody needs a blow by blow account of your boring life/day because nobody wants to read that, unless you have a stalker. There’s just so much shit on the internet nowadays and interesting and good blogs are so hard to find. If one feels the need to glorify their day, at least do it humorously or with with. But there’s nothing we can do, really, and we cant begrudge anyone that. Such is the democracy of the www. Meh.
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TIFF!!!!!! Are you going to the SDCC?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?! CAN YOU DO ME A HUGE-BON-ASS FAVOR?!???!?!?!?! Email me and I’ll let you know the details. PL E A S E
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canines hittin on you weird or funny ? howsthat for a memorable experience? lol
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