Random Synapses

Thanks to WeblogToolsCollection, I found out that there is a proper way to blog in order to have a successful blog.

Nice piece of work. Funny, mostly. But fundamentally wrong.

These rules are like a nerd’s list of things to do to be popular in highschool. What’s trendy to wear, what’s cool to say, what kind of hairstyle others like. It’s stupid! My blog reflects me, who I am and how I normally behave. I don’t suffer from multiple personality disorder to need to cuss like a sailor on my blog, then be embarassed to give the address to family and friends. Why should I cuss, do something I don’t like, hide under a fake name, bring up subjects on religion/politics/sex and so on if I don’t want to? Just because I’m desperate for attention and want my blog to be visited by other similar perverted twits with no real lives who read tons of blogs to fill up their empty days?!

I don’t write because I want others to read and praise me and link to me and leave nice comments. I write because I want to write. If nobody reads this blog, fine with me. It’s not a service I’m doing to the others the way they want me to. I don’t want to change my blog by others’ standards, likes or dislikes. I don’t care if they like photos and coloring books. “A photo is worth a thousand words.” Fine, I’m not lazy, I can write a thousand words and gain a lot more from doing that than from posting one stupid photo. Write daily? More is not necessarily better. This blog is not a newsroom. Learn to refine your important thoughts and bring value to your blog instead of increasing the online junk with every stupid idea you can come up with, just to have 37 new posts in a day.

Individuality is what makes each blog different. Confine it in those 30 rules and all you get is the same cooking recipe, only with different ingredients. It really gets boring after a while, no matter how funny you think you are. Oh, and do yourself a favor — ditch the spellchecker and make the effort to speak and write English correctly, it may come handy one day. Assume the few mistakes you will still make, nobody is perfect. Spellcheckers are for lazy sissies.

Recommended addition to this post: Foamy’s Rants on IllWillPress.

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