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

[Sassybeast]

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 ?

I agree that most bloggers have no particular expertise, but a lot of them do. These days, people with expertise in any particular field often blog as well as writing for/appearing on the mainstream media.

I can think of several expert bloggers to whom I'd turn for information before I'd read a newspaper (and certainly long before I'd consult the television news).

YANBU.
Most blogs are boring and self-indulgent; just like people who waste away entire days on Facebook.
Cote d'azur is obviously a serial blogger. Taking thins VERY personally

I agree. It's very self-indulgent. Private diaries can be cathartic and for posterity but I hate this outpouring of daily shite that people seem to think is necessary.

Having said that, one of my friends writes really well and I enjoy her blog very much.

anyone want to read my blog

Blogs have sort of replaced the 'round robin' - I cant resist reading them but they make me go "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"...oh feel much better!

if we're just talking about domestic blogs, rather than 'issue' blogs or blogs with a definite journey to them, if you think of it as self-publishing then perhaps it may seem self indulgent

but most small-scale bloggers form a community very much like mumsnet - closer, actually, ime, because you read more about their actual concerns and their life rather than knee-jerk reactions to other people's threads.

really it's more like a penpal relationship than anything else.

For a domestic blog that has grown into a real proper community of its own with multiple contributors check out Derfwad Manor - started out just as a mother writing a blog. This kind of thing wouldn't happen if blogs really were just self-indulgent.

btw I loved oranges comment, very, very good

By oranges on Mon 27-Apr-09 13:29:01
I disagree that everyday life is not worth recording. The domestic sphere offers a real insight into different lives, and I love historic diaries of households and womens tasks. Climbing Mount Everest is worth reading about, but is actually less historically relevant.

For example, [[http://attic24.typepad.com/ Attic24] is a fantastic blog which never steps out of the domestic sphere, yet she has has hundreds of readers - how is that self-indulgent?

sorry buggered up the link

Attic24

Writing a 'blog' (or basically, a diary) can be quite theraputic. I have done them in the past but I wouldn't expect anyone to read the day to day trials of my boring life lol

jaysus

Attic24 for crying out loud

I had a few blogs on my favourites of my old laptop but some bugger stole it so I cannot share them with you. .

The travel ones are good, especially if they give an insight into normal life in a foreign county as viewed by an outsider. I do remember the At Home in Rome one, it was interesting. She has now left Rome though.

MmeLindt- I haven't seen the Home in Rome one, but the "ooooh I live in a foreign country and therefore am sooooooo interesting" are the ones that really get on my norks.....I know one of these bloggers and her tales of life in furrinsville are like reading paint drying......I do read them to make sure she isn't pinching any of the fairly humorous (but still nothing I would inflict on the general public) things that happen to me here in furrinsville to make her dire bleatings any more interesting.....