BayArea.com : Find random thoughts of strangers in blogs "people who think their warped relationships, car trouble and mental illnesses are of interest to a vast audience"
That's not a way to describe bloggers in general, in my opinion. It would better describe some percentage of on-line diaries & journals, certainly. But what these articles I read seem to miss is that the way a person publishes on the web has little to do with the content they publish.
The interesting point I find I have to make is that I don't talk about my warped relationships, car trouble, or mental illness on this blog, that's for sure. I don't really talk about that kind of thing on my not-journal - a site which I certainly don't think is appealing to a "vast audience" by any stretch of the imagination. And indeed, people who do talk at length about their mental illness & warped relationships actually do seem to interest what some might consider to be a vast audience.
One thing I did find funny was the writer's comment on one blog he read: "I feel for a man who lives in a world without capital letters. I can hardly wait for the next installment."
Clearly not all blogs lack capital letters. Clearly one cannot accurately generalize about blogs. (link via LizSpeaks.com)
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The point to remember, then, is that written words have permanency, and thoughts carelessly put on paper can, when not destroyed by accident, exist for hundreds of years.
