blogs: how much is too much?

what's happened to yr blog, jess!? ;-)

I feel the same way, DV. I (infrequently) write in a journal, but I could never imagine keeping a blog. Who would want to read it? I'm not sure I'd even want to read it. I've come across a few that are witty and insightful, but by and large they're hopelessly narcissistic.

I still plan on going to the local cheesesteak place in your honor.

This argument would perhaps be better if blog reading was mandatory.

All lives are dull. Some are just better edited (or misportrayed).

All lives are interesting, at certain moments, or to certain people, or when viewed from certain perspectives.

The accumulation of millions of boring true details about peoples' lives is fascinating and wonderful, especially since it is searchable and hyperlinked.

But yes. Any one blog would make a generally boring book, but so what? That's not the point.

i like blogs, because i like to know what my friends are doing and thinking, and there are things they might say in a blog they wouldn't say in real life/a letter/on the phone. i generally assume that the only people who would care enough to read my webdiary are my friends. andrew farrell OTM.

I think quite a bit of it is really weird. I had a friend that started one a few years ago and started putting up mini-pages of all of his friends, including one on me. I put the kibosh on that page. He is still my friend, but we no longer advertise.

I also don't understand people that take multitudes of pictures of every single get together, no matter how trival. I find it annoying.

What can I say? That salami and all.

Really? I didn't think anyone besides Ned actually read it.

I would certainly hope more people than myself read it!

-- Prude (frisc...), August 18th, 2003.

My favourites are those blogs that are all three at once!

obviously anyone can write about anything they feel like and post it. and anyone can decide to read it or not read it. but does putting it out there then open it up to criticism? (ie. anyone can record a song and release it and you can listen to it or not, etc. etc.) i just think it an odd widespread phenomenon to take writings people used to keep under lock and key and post it on the most accessible, widespread medium ever. and though there is narcissism, there's also some kind of polar opposite going on because based on what people say they think no one is reading their posts. for instance, the infertility gal once posted how she didn't want the people at her office to know she was trying to to have a baby because she didn't want to be asked about it and sex is so personal, etc. etc.
?!?!?!?!?!
i'm just fascinated by it. i guess maybe i can relate to the impulse in some way (i used to write zines and such). but there is some buffer there: printing it out, going to kinko's, rethinking it, knowing only some neighborhood kids will see it. and i'm all for discussing ideas or experiences, but i always like a buffer (um, my real name isn't lolita). it almost seems like technology/communication is getting too immediate. blogs just make me think of these kinds of weird random issues so that's why i brought it up.

I'd read it if you ever updated the damn thing!

I need to remember to go find that "post the address of your blog" thread, cause I had a bunch of ILXers' bookmarked but lost em.