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AIBU?

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to not understand mum blogging

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stopfuckingshoutingatme · 27/01/2017 11:43

I can understand why people do it, they have something to do, feel busy and hopefully get advertorials or some sort of money

Its the readers, why would you read a blog written by a bog standard Mum? isn't there anything better to read?

about life as a working Mum of 2 crazee kids, my commute and LIDL versus Waitrose, and some nicked recipes

I means that's boring right?

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Feilin · 28/01/2017 11:53

I loved Dooce and Kickyboots back in the day. Blogging baby was a great site . Today I read Peter and Jane and some others. These blogs are great for me as they make me feel good . If I have a bad day as a parent it's ok I'm not alone . That's why I love mummy bloggers. Plus recipes and ideas for kids but mostly the feel good factor I get from them.

DameXanaduBramble · 28/01/2017 11:58

Ooh don't stop, the cheesier the better, there is one I look at sometimes just for a bit of a giggle, she writes a bit like Carrie Bradshaw with bad grammar and spelling. It's cringe.

TWOBANANAS · 28/01/2017 11:58

I can't stand the Vloggers, the ones where someone is looking at the camera and explaining stuff like a new mascara that has changed the world or some other shite. Why they think I want to know or even care is beyond me. But each to their own.

JournosAreLazy · 28/01/2017 12:06

There's 2 or 3 that I like that take the piss out of themselves and are funny and present a real life picture of parenthood rather than smug #feelingblessed or photos early morning yoga with baby wearing size 6 leggings and a crop top.

I do think some of the 'funny' ones swear too much for the sake of swearing. 'I can't think of anything funny to write so I'll just type fuck a lot and take a picture of another fucking glass of fucking wine' Fucking hilarious 😴

mrsenasharples · 28/01/2017 12:16

I know a couple of instagrammers. Not mummy types but have their own business. I look at them for entertainment value as they post a lot about themselves. There is a lot of over sharing of their perfect lives...

Sparklingbrook · 28/01/2017 14:08

There is some 'pointless crap' on here glitterati that's true but it is nothing like reading a mummy blog. There's not endless pictures of poster's children or updates about their day to day activities with sponsors and freebies.

glitterazi · 28/01/2017 14:19

There's not endless pictures of poster's children or updates about their day to day activities

Some people like endless updates about day to day activities. Just like some like to read about fishing or motorbiking, some like to read about family life. I know I do.
I think fishing is the most boring, pointless thing on earth which is why I stay away from fishing magazines and blogs.
It's not rocket science to not read the things that wind you up or bore you

Sparklingbrook · 28/01/2017 14:27

I have read some mummy blogs IMO they were awful so I don't read them. Doesn't stop me thinking they are awful though.

GruochMacAlpin · 28/01/2017 14:43

Glitterazi it's nice that you enjoy these kind of blogs and it's nice that the writers enjoy producing them and perhaps even making some money out of them.

But if you publish your writing for public consumption then critique and criticism come as part of that package. In fact it's necessary for their improvement (though no doubt hard to read sometimes)

Professional authors and journalists get slagged off on MN all the time, it comes with the territory - why are bloggers any different?

glitterazi · 28/01/2017 15:02

But if you publish your writing for public consumption then critique and criticism come as part of that package. In fact it's necessary for their improvement (though no doubt hard to read sometimes

Now if we're talking about the actual level of writing, I can take your point with this.
I just took issue with the fact that people were "not understanding mum blogging", "dull as fuck, self absorbed" etc.
That's just personal opinion as thousands like that sort of thing. If the writing's terrible though, in this day and age of spellchecker, you really have no excuse to be littered with spelling mistakes!
I must admit any badly written blog has me immediately clicking off and not wanting to read it.

Corialanusburt · 28/01/2017 15:15

I can't stand gin o'clock irreverent mum blogs. I guess people find them funny because they identify with elements of them.
For me, Identifying with something is an element of what makes something funny. Peter Kay, for example, does this well. We laugh because we recognise the situations he describes. But crucially he is hilarious and that's the bit that's missing from any mum blog I've yet read.

GruochMacAlpin · 28/01/2017 15:20

But "dull and self-absorbed" is a critque of the blog Glitterazi.

As you say lots of people enjoy them so that's fine but it doesn't mean that no one who doesn't enjoy them shouldn't be allowed to express an opinion.

glitterazi · 28/01/2017 15:29

But "dull and self-absorbed" is a critque of the blog Glitterazi.

You'd have a point if we were actually discussing an individual blog and critiquing it.
You can't critique an entire genre as being dull and self absorbed. That's where it starts to go into personal opinion - what's dull as fuck to you is what someone else loves to read.

Sparklingbrook · 28/01/2017 15:38

But you have written off fishing as 'boring and pointless'. Is that all types of fishing?

glitterazi · 28/01/2017 15:44

But you have written off fishing as 'boring and pointless'. Is that all types of fishing?

Yes. All types of fishing is boring. I cannot think of a more dull, brain numbing pastime.
As for those who throw the fish back in after you've caught, utterly and totally pointless. "Let's sit here for eleventy billion hours in a row waiting to catch something, and then when we do, let's chuck it back!"
As I said, pointless as well as boring.
Also, as I said, it's personal opinion as I appreciate not everyone else will see it as pointless and boring. That's just me.
It's not critiquing blogs as someone suggested, it's saying they're all pointless and dull.
Which is your opinion.

MuseumGardens · 28/01/2017 15:50

I follow one in another country and she probably updates it maybe twice a month. Her life/house/religion/children's schooling/holidays/town are different to my own so i just find it interesting

lonelysaddo · 28/01/2017 15:51

Part time working mummy is brill but I do sometimes cringe at how much she does put online. Her oldest daughter is almost a teen and it makes me a bit uncomfortable that I know her full name/what school she goes to and pretty much what her daily movements are (obviously I've not memorised all this but it's there in the posts for all to see) if I can see this then so can thousand (perhaps millions) of others and it makes me feel a bit uneasy about safety.

pelicantown · 28/01/2017 15:56

I like you tube mum vlogs . Especially the American homeschool ones! I can't help it I just do

AltheaThoon · 28/01/2017 15:58

One of my friends often 'likes' the Peter and Jane statuses so I see them. Personally (and I see that I'm in the minority here!) I don't like them. The posts are so long and it's all 'mummy said this and daddy said that'. Maybe it's just not my thing. I can be a bit humourless at times 😕

I sometimes look on the visitor posts on The Unmumsy Mum fb page (usually at 1am when I should be going to sleep but instead desperately search for something new to look at on fb). It strikes me that most of the posts are either pictures of the Unmumsy Mum book with "can't wait to read!", or pictures that have been drawn by children that look slightly phallic. Oh the hilarity!

Like I said, I'm pretty humourless!

glitterazi · 28/01/2017 15:58

Her life/house/religion/children's schooling/holidays/town are different to my own so i just find it interesting

That's exactly why I love reading blogs/watching vlogs. Even the so called "pointless" ones - I'm a nosy sod who loves reading about other people's lives and getting a window into them.
Which is presumably why half the people on Mumsnet are here as well....

mumchkin · 28/01/2017 16:00

Had it's day. Move on to the next thing - not sure what that is though?

glitterazi · 28/01/2017 16:03

I like you tube mum vlogs . Especially the American homeschool ones! I can't help it I just do

I've recently discovered the mum vloggers channels, and they're ace Not seen any homeschooled American ones, they sound brilliantly cheesy!
I'm maybe weird but there's something strangely fascinating about people watching - yay to watching randomers doing a family rendition of "Let It Go" while singing in the car, or seeing what people in Japan/China/Australia/insert foreign country here are eating for their breakfast..

bibbitybobbityyhat · 28/01/2017 16:04

Hate the idea of blogs. Hate people trying to sell me stuff. Very occasionally I'll click on blog of the day here on Mumsnet and am reminded why I am such a big fan of professional writing/editing/publishing. That whole old fashioned process.

pelicantown · 28/01/2017 16:08

Glitter- I home ed one of my dcs and sometimes I feel like turning my house into an American homeschool vloggers house.

I would do things like track his attendance (seriously they take a register of their own children ).

Then I remember I'm mostly too lazy.

glitterazi · 28/01/2017 16:09

Hate people trying to sell me stuff.

You realise they don't all sell you stuff, right? Maybe some do. A heck of a lot don't.
Some just do it for the fun and not to monetize it. For all the badly written ones out there, there's just as many amazingly well written ones which are just as good as professional writing.

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