Why does everyone and their mom want to blog about fashion these days? It's really tiring! Now, don't get me wrong. There are fashion blogs out there that do their thing, and do it well. I am fan of quite a few. See The Sartorialist and my girl, Jane, for example. And I do like fashion too, but I don't have so much self-importance to think that the world is dying to know what piece of cloth I use to cover my ass each day. Nor do I think that readers will make the extra effort log on the internet and access my blog to find out about it.
It's kind of like twitter. I mean, I am guilty of having a twitter. I have had it for years now actually. Before anyone knew about tweets, I made an account because I was curious to see what the hell it was. Now about three years later, I realize that it's largely a social network of people who aren't really doing that much with their lives so they feel the need to log online and tell the world everything that they're [not] doing. If you are truly busy, are you really going to log on to twitter to tell the world how busy you are? NO!
Anyway, I have a total of four updates on twitter, none of which are actually about my life. My tweets either consist of my commentaries on life (which are so profound that I NEED to share them with the world, thus twitter is my only option) or how horrible the weather is. Other than that, there are few aspects of my life that truly interest people, so I don't bother to telling them about it.
If people want to know a little bit more about my life, then they'll read my blog which is probably why I can count the amount of readers this blog attracts on my left hand. But that's okay! It doesn't matter because if I was blogging for attention, I wouldn't be able to talk about whatever I wanted. Instead I'd have to talk about things that interest other people which, in my experience, don't really interest me. And, it's a bore always trying to please other people.
But seriously,
WAKE UP WORLD and everyone listen (or at least the five of you that have made it to the bottom of this entry)...
People don't really give a shit. So when they lend you their ears for the obliged 10-15 minutes (only 5 of which they're actually listening), don't bore them by talking about things they could easily read in a magazine from someone who actually put research into the topic (depending on the magazine of course). Tell them about something more interesting like how your dog gets so excited to see you and your friends that she pisses herself at the sight of everyone. And if that doesn't work, you can always bitch about the weather.
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