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To think that anyone who writes their own blog about their own mundane life is misguided and deluded?

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Sassybeast · 27/04/2009 12:39

Who READS these things ? Just been sent a link to an ex colleagues 'Blog' and it's all about nothing in particular.

She baked fairy cakes at the weekend. She's trying to decide if she prefers a Seat Alhambra or a Volkswagon something or other. She's joined a group to save her local post office.

WHY do people do this sort of stuff ? Does anyone actually read or follow someone elses Blog ?

And more importantly, should I leave a comment to prove that I've read it ? What is Blog etiquette ?

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shavenhaven · 27/04/2009 12:43

i cant be arsed with them.

its usually really boring people who have them as well.

rubyslippers · 27/04/2009 12:44

actually i quite like blogs - my friends did an amazing one about their adoption journey

i don't see them being of any harm

minesacheeseandpicklesandwich · 27/04/2009 12:45

YANBU - I'd much rather post messages on here about my mundane life.

Had lots of friends here for a baby shower on the weekend and it was fab.

Comment or don't comment - etiquette wise, you can please yourself!

Rollmops · 27/04/2009 12:45

"To think that anyone who writes their own blog about their own mundane life is misguided and deluded?"

Amen to that! You are definitely NBU.

shootfromthehip · 27/04/2009 12:47

I think if there is a specific point to them then they can be more interesting, however very often the problem is the narrator and not the content. I have one pal who blogs and it's hysterical even though it's usually only about going to Asda with her kids.

Hassled · 27/04/2009 12:47

It has always seemed like narcissism to me.

Having said that, if you can write about your fairy cakes or car choice in an entertaining/amusing fashion, then it can make good reading. Or if you have a "focus" -PolicyWonk's blog, for example, is fascinating (although sadly has no references to fairy cakes).

Rhubarb · 27/04/2009 12:47

I suppose it's rather like a diary, albeit a very public one. I suppose some people like to think that others would be fascinated to read about what they get up to every day. And I suspect many hope that a newspaper might pick up on it and decide that the author is actually extremely witty and articulate and must therefore have their own column.

Twitter makes me laugh - most people just 'reply' to celebrities, hoping to get an acknowledgment. Why?

SusieDerkins · 27/04/2009 12:48

I get them if they are about something special but 99.9% of them are dull dull dull. And why would you do one about your everyday stuff? Do people think that their lives are intersting? Weird. It's a bit like all those boring columnists in the Sunday papers droning on about their week. Zzzzzz.....

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Sassybeast · 27/04/2009 12:48

Rubyslippers - but that's a blog ABOUT something - a source of info and inspiration . But this is just like my life on screen - fairly boring and inconsequential. And cos I'm a nice person (honest) I feel oblidged to read it

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fircone · 27/04/2009 12:48

People used to write diaries - PRIVATE diaries. Perhaps if they were very good they were published - eg Pepys.

But now far too many people are of the opinion that they are interesting, or have something interesting to say. No, no, no. It's like Twitter. Why on earth would I care what someone is up to every five minutes? I've had a few e-mails from people telling, I repeat, telling me to follow them on Twitter. Who on earth do people think they are?

mayorquimby · 27/04/2009 12:48

ditto those who write about mundane everyday things as though they are the first to go through them,are somehow special or that anyone would care about them.
climbing mt.everest deserves a blog.living a typical suburban life,being a teenager or being a mother does not

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Sassybeast · 27/04/2009 12:51

Actually i think I've just realised that this is why I find this so tedious. It's completely humourless. I suppose writing about fairy cakes and buying cars could potentailly be funny but when it reads like 'Decided to give the Delia book and dusting off and make some fairy cakes. Though I might have run out of eggs (had scrambled for breakfas twith extra butter - delish! ) but luckily had enough....'

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vlc · 27/04/2009 12:52

Don't you see a just a little irony in the fact that you just posted your thoughts online regarding people who post their thoughts online?

Just a little, perhaps?

MmeLindt · 27/04/2009 12:55

I have a blog to keep the family back home appraised of our life abroad and so that I don't send loads of emails with photos. I only post on it when we do interesting things, or go somewhere new. Not to report on the contents of my fridge, and if I have enough eggs for making fairy cakes.

ronshar · 27/04/2009 12:57

YANBU.
Just dont read them.

epithet · 27/04/2009 12:57

I have to say that, mundane as these blogs are right now, to historians of the future they will be fabulous source material.

I wish the Vikings had had blogs.

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Sassybeast · 27/04/2009 12:57

VLC - if I post an update tomorrow about my thoughts, along with a recipe for fairy cakes and the results of my latest smear test then shoot me

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vlc · 27/04/2009 12:59

righty ho.

Shall await your updated blog posts like an eager blogger stalker.

CoteDAzur · 27/04/2009 13:01

YABveryU, not to mention arrogant and judgmental to think people writing about their everyday lives are "misguided and deluded". They might have family abroad who wants to see pictures of the kids, learn about what they did that day.

Get off your high horse and get a life. Starting a thread about people writing stuff about their own lives, fgs

ForeverOptimistic · 27/04/2009 13:02

I lead a mundane boring life so I don't do a blog. If we ever decide to do something exciting and go off traveling for a year I expect I would keep people updated by writing a blog.

I am so nosey that I quite like reading blogs but only of people who are doing things out of the norm. I would rather eat my own toenails or resort to watching "loose women" than listen to someones boring drivel about cake baking and school runs.

Tee2072 · 27/04/2009 13:03

Is it any more narcissistic or self indulgent than coming on here and posting about our mundane lives? Really, what's the difference???

Yes, I have a blog. Yes, people read my blog. No, not everyone comments on my blog.

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Sassybeast · 27/04/2009 13:17

But do those of you who write a blog about fairy cakes send the link to every random person on your email list ?

Completely understand living abroad and sending pics of family but there aren't any pics on this. Apart from one of her new cooker. And an old dog. It's a very nice cooker. Must make nice fairy cakes.

Oh Cote D'Azur - 'Get a life' ? Touch of PMT ? I'm too busy baking fairy cakes to have a life dahling. I'll send you a pic of them if you want. I've run out of chocolate sprinkles so I've had to use jelly diamonds. Feel free to comment.' What's the name of your Blog then ? 'How to have a Life in pictures'

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BalloonSlayer · 27/04/2009 13:20

Viking Blog Entry for Epithet

So Sven came home with another bloody elk expecting it gutted and roasted by dinner time. He wants to be able to impress the lads with it later. They're all coming over to discuss their next invasion - they are thinking of England, or perhaps France as the weather isn't so good in England this time of year and the beaches have quite a lot of sewage on them I understand.

He thinks he can keep me sweet by giving me jewellery but it's not as if he's bought it himself, is it? Just ripped it off some poor Danish girl's neck on one of his lads' weekends.

I was worried that I hadn't got enough lard to baste the elk, as I used it for polecat pancakes (mmm delish!) this morning, but luckily I found some more, although I managed to get one of my plaits wrapped around the spit and singe it a litte (Duh!)...

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justaboutspringtime · 27/04/2009 13:21

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CoteDAzur · 27/04/2009 13:21

Really. Do get a life.