Blog to impress?
Sunday, April 8th, 2007
I've been thinking about that. Are we blogging to impress others or are we blogging to express ourselves?
Well, I am sure everyone of you would be debating this in your mind right now. Do I really blog to tell people how I feel, whats happening in my life, what I want others to know or am I just blogging stuff to impress others and let others see how good things are.
Its just like in a school/uni environment. When you have great social skills and you know lots of people, everyone likes you, which would make you the "popular" one. So blogging is pretty much like that sometimes, we want to reach out to people and say something or write something great on your blog so people will keep coming back. Who don't want a blog like Kenny Sia, Cheeserland and a few others where they get thousands of visit each day.
Look here is the thing thou, those sites did not get popular and famous because they put all flashy things on there (well maybe that contributed to it a little) but none of them started a blog to be popular, its just like you wern't born to be the next Tiger Woods or Jay Chou unless u work for it.
So I guess that leaves everyone with this. If you try to blog to impress it simply does not work. The harder you try, the bigger your failure would be. Be yourself, people like to read about interesting stuff you come up with, not stuff that involves OTHER people and nothing about you. After all its your personal online journal.
*wrote this when i was not thinking straight so if anything does no make sense.. you will know why :)