Thursday, June 22, 2006
K, erm. This is my new blog. A rather lengthy insight to what i feel about all the other 99% of all blogs out in the world. Most blogs are crude, superficial, and most of all, boring. Yes, they might be created to entertain the circle of friends of the author. Yes, it is his or her blog, he/she has the right to decide what to put in. Does that change the fact that its a bore to read, sometimes even disgusting, most of the times making readers like me wish to flame (burn!) theh ell outta it?
Are we, the flamers, then wrong to do so? It isn't the fault of the blogger that what he or she writes doesn't appeal to the reader, but vice versa, its not the reader's fault if he finds it boring and devoid of entertainment. And thus, sometimes we find amusement in "flaming" whatever obvious insecurities and superficiality of the particular blog. Most of the time, these flames comments will not go unnoticed. They will not be ignored. They will be recognized, acknowledged, and the blogger will refute the flamer with
"dude, tis my blog. shoo plz ><"
"so what? this is MY BLOG, if you don't like it don't read it"
And er, all sorta othar shiat and transmutations of the above two.
And because the flamer is recognized, there is fun. We derive joy in annoying others, yes we do, especially people with retarded blogs. Of course, we cannot replicate the same thing in real-life. Often some say "flamers" are cowards. They rely on a somewhat pathetic excuse of "anonymous iz coward plozz!", which doesn't really make a difference, since an identity can be easily forged online.
I say some are cowards, some are intelligent. Cowards are generally people who change personas and their online identity often, sometimes creating multiple personas to support each one. Those are people who are unable to backup their arguments, flames, etc. They flame because they don't like the particular blogger, or are in a flame-crusade to support their friends. Basically, these are the ones bloggers do not have to worry about.
The "intelligent" ones are the ones to be feared. They can point out the minute flaws and hypocrisy that is often bound to spill out of most bloggers. If the blogger is of decent intellectual level, he or she is then able to compete with the flamer. Often the blogger is under considerable stress as it is his/her own blog that the battle is fought, and every step of his/her could reveal the flaws within his/her character. The flamer on the other hand, can sit back, enjoy, relax, and use this as an opportunity to work his brains. Their purpose is to derive joy and amusement, not to outright disgrace or flame aimlessly like the cowards do.
Of course, flaming can only go so far as over the internet. To try to humiliate, insult, and disgrace a person in real-life is far too much. Over the internet, shields and barriers can be set up, ignorance is a great defense mechanism. In real-life, we do not know of the particular person's character, traits, strengths or weaknesses, and thus we refrain from flaming. On the other hand, a blog...is just that. Its true form is obvious, the content is exactly what it is, and thus, it is easy to attack the blog. Of course, through attacking the blog, you somewhat attack the blogger which makes him/her offended, but this is the difference between real-life/ internet flaming.
Either ways, hopefully i can entertain instead of bore my readers, and make this an example of how an entertaining blog should be, instead of "Asia's best blogger, "learntoputpicturesandwin" Xiaxue." Learn to play, learn to kid.
Regards,
Letalkid
silverletal [Simple and Clean] 7:58 AM
