I saw this article, and found a section of it that embodies the view I've always had on blogs:
"Growing up with reality television teaches you that sharing every irrelevant thought as publicly as possible isn't the province of lunatics in trench-coats and attention whores but is "normative" and "prosocial," which we're fairly sure are psychobabble words for good things. Keeping Up With the Kardashians being taken as the basis of a society makes 1984 look like a nice future. Hell, it makes Fallout 3 look good.
It's a cargo cult: They see people with absolutely no ability becoming famous, sharing absolutely every irrelevant detail of their lives with the world, and confuse one of the effects with the cause. They then proceed to pour out every pointless emotion in a never-ending toxic spill of weaponized boredom."
I've heard some people described as having "diarrhea of the mouth" when they just keep talking and tell you details about their lives or whatever strikes their fancy that you just don't need to know or care about.
I also remember a character from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a book by Douglas Adams, named Ford Prefect, who is an alien writer for an intergalactic guide book, trying to decipher why people talk so much. His theory based upon years of observing people from earth was that if we ever let our mouths stop moving, our brains might start working.
All of these summarize what I feel most people have to say, especially in blogs: nothing of value.
Yes, why do people feel the need to share every little thing about themselves? I think this started with famous people on viagra commercials and Princess Di sharing her anorexia. I can understand why because it would cause some people to get help, but then everyone thinks that they need to share. MM
ReplyDeleteI agree that people don't need to share every inane thought that crosses through their minds. I feel that the worst part of social networking is the constant updates that people feel they need to provide.
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