Blogs. Why do people bother?

Aids By Google

Seriously?

I just clicked on a link to one and it is *gone* Something that I find happens a lot. Three times tonight!

www.fecklesswaster.com

Why do people devote time to them and then just stop and delete them

Why bother in the first place?

javaboy

Why do they bother?
To feel important.

Why do they delete them?
Because the lack of visitors to their blog makes them feel less important than they did before.

Xluna

Why bother complaining about them?

Tallon

Because it's all about the Vlogs now

Aids By Google

Xluna wrote: »

Why bother complaining about them?

Why bother posting asking that?

stovelid

Why would you expect a feckless waster to update a blog regularly?

Killer Pigeon

"... because people actually think that their opinions matter in this so-called democracy ... mu ha ha haaaa.", laughed the minister.

jill_valentine

Maybe they weren't the ones who deleted them? Maybe there was a complaint about the blog, and their host yanked it?

5starpool

People think something is a good idea at the time, but then get bored. Happens all the time. No biggie.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Because Frada told me to...

Einhard

Because people lose interest aft

El Weirdo

I'm too old and tired for this shit...

moonpurple

i visited one yesterday for 40th time, the blogger sees the readers, a bit like writing a letter

Aids By Google

Aids By Google wrote: »

Seriously?

I just clicked on a link to one and it is *gone* Something that I find happens a lot. Three times tonight!

www.fecklesswaster.com

Why do people devote time to them and then just stop and delete them

Why bother in the first place?

If it's a free hosted one, alot of people use it pretty much as a diary.. One of the lads has it travellin just to keep track.
Other than that, I really don't see the point.

Mike 1972

5starpool wrote: »

People think something is a good idea at the time, but then get bored. Happens all the time. No biggie.

I agree with what 5starpool sa................... :pac:

pickarooney

Deleted User wrote: »

If it's a free hosted one, alot of people use it pretty much as a diary.. One of the lads has it travellin just to keep track.
Other than that, I really don't see the point.

Are you going to let him rip off your username like that?

Googlefight!

pickarooney

pickarooney wrote: »

Are you going to let him rip off your username like that?

Googlefight!

I know I know.. I'm none too pleased about the whole thing. Altho i'm fairly sure it's a she so we could be soulmates if she doesn't actually have the aids.

OctavarIan

They're pretty helpful career-wise if you're a writer or work in the media.

Or as independent sources of information that don't need to conform to mainstream ethics regarding the release of information.

Or as an outlet for your company to appear more 'human' and friendly.

Or as an easy to use CMS for your website.

Yeah there's a huge amount of useless ones out there, but they're hard to find by their very nature (being useless, bad SEO, no Google ranking).

OutlawPete

The only blog I read is a fellow Boardsies' blog as I find what they say interesting and very honest.

I always hated Twitter, but since Trent hacked the place I find my self on there from time to time reading some people's tweets, which essentially is a blog.

I really like YouTube blogs from people I'd admire who have something to say worth hearing.

I don't understand mindless blogs / vlogs / tweets.

They annoy the fcuk out of me.

The worst cnuts are the ones that will deliberately a YouTube video to fool you into thinking it's a popular subject and even have a thumbnail in the video to appear it is also.

Then when you click it, some twat says: "Hi, this isn't (the video you thought you were clicking on) but here's my opinions on it.." :rolleyes:

They need to die, I despise those assholes with a couple of million views that they are sooooo proud of and yet every single one is from people looking for a video that they didn't show ... tossers :mad:

CrazyRabbit

Aids By Google wrote: »

Seriously?

I just clicked on a link to one and it is *gone* Something that I find happens a lot. Three times tonight!

www.fecklesswaster.com

Why do people devote time to them and then just stop and delete them

Why bother in the first place?

Here's a good amusing blog that won't be finishing anytime soon...

http://www.youtube.com/user/sxephil

Biggins

El Weirdo wrote: »

I'm too old and tired for this shit...

Welcome to my world.

Deus Ex Machina

People see only their own intellect from a first person perspective. This means that they often have an inflated opinion of its merit, and accordingly, a lesser opinion of other people's intellects. As a result they feel that they have a level of insight which others lack, and believe that they can provide a new and interesting perspective, and that people will care about what the blog says. They are usually wrong on all counts.

SugarHigh

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Here's a good amusing blog that won't be finishing anytime soon...

http://www.youtube.com/user/sxephil

I hate that prick

SugarHigh

Deus Ex Machina wrote: »

People see only their own intellect from a first person perspective. This means that they often have an inflated opinion of its merit, and accordingly, a lesser opinion of other people's intellects. As a result they feel that they have a level of insight which others lack, and believe that they can provide a new and interesting perspective, and that people will care about what the blog says. They are usually wrong on all counts.

So true but this is also the reason for most of the posts on boards.

bnt

Times have changed. Ten years ago it was a novelty, and we did it because we could. It wasn't as easy as setting up a WordPress account, and the effort was appreciated. We actually had readers, and comments.

These days, it doesn't help to generalise about bloggers, since it's gone "vertical"; people have specialist topics, and blogs are a means to an end, not an end in itself. You'd better have a good reason to do it. I didn't, so I stopped, nearly three years ago.

StaticNoise

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Here's a good amusing blog that won't be finishing anytime soon...

http://www.youtube.com/user/sxephil

Strange 'auld fella.
Sometime quite amusing, I will admit.

OctavarIan wrote: »

They're pretty helpful career-wise if you're a writer or work in the media.

Hear hear

sam34

a lot of them are just a forum for narcissism