Comments on: Hostility about blogging — the source? http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/04/07/hostility-about-blogging-the-source/ Making The Most of MidLife--Together Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:56:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Anonymous http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/04/07/hostility-about-blogging-the-source/comment-page-1/#comment-4140 Anonymous Sat, 08 Apr 2006 21:43:21 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/04/07/hostility-about-blogging-the-source/#comment-4140 <p>congrats</p> <p>Congrats Janie! I am so glad to hear about our new job, please fill me in on the specifics. As for those nasty little friends who are complaining @ the blogg, it's their loss. I LOVE reading your entries. You have such spirit and a wicked sense of humor! Blogg on my friend! :) Beth</p> congrats

Congrats Janie! I am so glad to hear about our new job, please fill me in on the specifics. As for those nasty little friends who are complaining @ the blogg, it’s their loss. I LOVE reading your entries. You have such spirit and a wicked sense of humor! Blogg on my friend! :) Beth

]]> By: writerwench http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/04/07/hostility-about-blogging-the-source/comment-page-1/#comment-4139 writerwench Sat, 08 Apr 2006 14:02:20 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/04/07/hostility-about-blogging-the-source/#comment-4139 <p>Yeh, I'm considering it from the viewpoint of a non-blogger. None of my family would DREAM of posting their activities online for the world (or even selected friends) to see. Your point is just as valid, that blogs are a way of telling everyone what you're doing, but so they can read when they want... personally, I like blogging, although I have to edit and block access some mornings, on reading the previous evening's posts! </p> Yeh, I’m considering it from the viewpoint of a non-blogger. None of my family would DREAM of posting their activities online for the world (or even selected friends) to see. Your point is just as valid, that blogs are a way of telling everyone what you’re doing, but so they can read when they want… personally, I like blogging, although I have to edit and block access some mornings, on reading the previous evening’s posts!

]]> By: toadyjoe http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/04/07/hostility-about-blogging-the-source/comment-page-1/#comment-4138 toadyjoe Sat, 08 Apr 2006 08:44:28 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/04/07/hostility-about-blogging-the-source/#comment-4138 <p>Which, when put that way, does indeed seem kinda rude. But those of us who blog see it in a different light - like HEY! I'm shouting from the rooftops so everyone can hear at their own convenience. Errr.... I had a point. But it's not making much sense now. So I'll jump on the "they just don't get it" bandwagon. Cuz ya don't get it til ya do it.</p> Which, when put that way, does indeed seem kinda rude. But those of us who blog see it in a different light – like HEY! I’m shouting from the rooftops so everyone can hear at their own convenience. Errr…. I had a point. But it’s not making much sense now. So I’ll jump on the “they just don’t get it” bandwagon. Cuz ya don’t get it til ya do it.

]]> By: writerwench http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/04/07/hostility-about-blogging-the-source/comment-page-1/#comment-4137 writerwench Sat, 08 Apr 2006 04:27:00 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/04/07/hostility-about-blogging-the-source/#comment-4137 <p>I think it's the assumption that if you've emailed or written to them, that's a personal communication and you've bothered to type it all out just for them. Whereas a link to a livejournal blog is just 'hey, you wanna see what I'm up to? Well I can't be bothered to tell you individually, so here's my blog'. Or at least that's my interpretation of it.</p> I think it’s the assumption that if you’ve emailed or written to them, that’s a personal communication and you’ve bothered to type it all out just for them. Whereas a link to a livejournal blog is just ‘hey, you wanna see what I’m up to? Well I can’t be bothered to tell you individually, so here’s my blog’. Or at least that’s my interpretation of it.

]]> By: theodicy http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/04/07/hostility-about-blogging-the-source/comment-page-1/#comment-4136 theodicy Sat, 08 Apr 2006 03:33:16 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/04/07/hostility-about-blogging-the-source/#comment-4136 <p>Innnteresting. I have a friend who doesn't want to check my LJ either. She had an account but let it lapse. She wants the Personalized Touch. That's all very well, and she gets it - upon occasion. If a whole buncha my peeps want to hear from me every day? THEY NEED TO READ THE LJ, yo.</p> Innnteresting. I have a friend who doesn’t want to check my LJ either. She had an account but let it lapse. She wants the Personalized Touch. That’s all very well, and she gets it – upon occasion. If a whole buncha my peeps want to hear from me every day? THEY NEED TO READ THE LJ, yo.

]]> By: ratphooey http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/04/07/hostility-about-blogging-the-source/comment-page-1/#comment-4135 ratphooey Sat, 08 Apr 2006 03:17:27 +0000 http://midlifebloggers.com/2006/04/07/hostility-about-blogging-the-source/#comment-4135 <p>I used to not get blogging. It seemed very self-involved, like who are these people who think that someone else will want to read what they have to say?</p> <p>And then I started, and realized that I was part of a community. That I could get feedback and give it and have my existence validated in that way.</p> <p>So I imagine that there is some of that going on. The not-getting of it. And maybe some jealousy that you get it and they don't.</p> <p>Anyone who thinks diaries are impersonal is an idiot. I mean, duh. Clearly they have never kept one themselves.</p> I used to not get blogging. It seemed very self-involved, like who are these people who think that someone else will want to read what they have to say?

And then I started, and realized that I was part of a community. That I could get feedback and give it and have my existence validated in that way.

So I imagine that there is some of that going on. The not-getting of it. And maybe some jealousy that you get it and they don’t.

Anyone who thinks diaries are impersonal is an idiot. I mean, duh. Clearly they have never kept one themselves.

]]>