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- MasterInsan0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+87I personally never understood the whole "everyone has to know everything about my life as though they cared" thing.
- jjk5, on 10/12/2007, -3/+54I posted an article to Digg earlier about some kids in NH that bragged about their pipe bombs on MySpace. They've since been arrested. When will people learn??
(not going to spam a link to my article, search for MySpace Bombings if you're genuinely interested) - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+52My fiance posted something about missing a period, and her grandma found her blog. Both parties were embarrassed.
Now, my fiance doesn't post things like that in her blog anymore.
Your blog is public, and people who you don't really want to see it WILL see it, one of these days. - Davidbt, on 10/12/2007, -5/+44nope read it no emo chicks
I'm going to go write in my live-journal about how disappointed i was.
then maybe cry in my huge ass room in my parent mansion. - sei0n, on 10/12/2007, -7/+41If it also contains half-naked/totally naked pictures of _hot_ emo chicks, keep them coming.
Else, no. - phil.busch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23http://www.pixelbomb.com/blog/2006/06/15/bob-corker-for-senate.html
Found! - withstolenwings, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22I translated the above so all those with an IQ above 85 can read it:
"YO ME AND MAC GOT SO ***** KRUNKED DOGGGG!!!11 LAST NITE CHARMANE U GO GIRL UR THUG TO DA MAX HONEY I LOVES YOU WE NEED TO ROLL ON DAT ***** MO'"
Hello,
My friend Mac and I got very drunk/high last night, my good friend.
Charmane, you are really cool, honey. I enjoy your company. I would appreciate it if you would bring the drugs over more often, as I had an enjoyable time.
:) - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17"I don't want to read about the excruciating minutiae and banal thought processes that permeate your every waking hour."
These days, people frequently use their blogs as tools for communicating with people they'd actually talk to (face to face, over the phone, w/e) about the exact same topics they blog about. You may not care, but someone does. - Nigh7mar3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15social engineers are happy
- xXShadowstormXx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16"The gossip site Wonkette.com has made a minor sport out of exposing what newsmakers' offspring have done on the Web. There was Tennessee Republican Senate candidate Bob Corker's daughter's Facebook page, for example, which showed her locking lips with another woman and dancing *in what appeared to be her underwear.* "
What's the matter? What else do you think it would be? A thong? Nothing at all?
In what APPEARED to be her underwear... pshhh. - GrinningFool, on 10/12/2007, -8/+22"hot emo-chick"
Isn't that an oxymoron? - pixelmixer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13+... its college... what else is a college girl to do?
- whisk3rs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16jsd8cc: "I don't want to read about the excruciating minutiae and banal thought processes that permeate your every waking hour"
Someone forcing you, like in the Clockwork Orange?
Quit whining!
/has a private blog no one knows about - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Kids post things in their blogs that they really shouldn't more than adults do.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I like this bit:
"His father, speaking through an AT&T spokesman, said: "I care very much for my son. And like many fathers and sons, we have differences of opinion on many subjects.""
Nothing says, "I love you, son," like saying it through the cold beaureaucracy of your father's megaconglomerate employer. - delong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11The Internet has created a problem. It allows speech that before was private to be viewable to any audience, worldwide, instantaneously. The problem with that is norms have not followed as quickly. Bitching about school, adults, and the world in general is an age-old rite of the young. The hyperbole and crass profanity of youth was always a private conversation away from the ears of adults. With the Internet, that private subculture speech is splashed before the eyes of tens of millions of adults. Result? Alarm, and possibly a felony.
"True threats" are not protected speech under the First Amendment. If a teenager vents with the hyperbole, "I hate my school, I'm going to blow it up", that may very well be a "get one felony free card". No intent to threaten is required - it is virtually strict liability. Most states have a terroristic threats statute that can be applied, constitutionally, to punish such speech. That's the dangerous part of this brave new world. - adougherty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11The whole idea of "why do so many people blog about stupid things I don't care about" upsets me a little. If you think about it, it's a rather self-centered statement, as though the Internet existed for the sole pleasure of the commenter.
The reality of the matter is, of the bloggers that post things we don't care about, aren't writing it for us! They're writing it for a very specific audience, often ranging from 1 to 10 people.
Another thing to keep in mind is, if so many people are doing it, and you think it's stupid, pointless, or a waste of your time, then it's far more likely that there is something you just plain don't understand about it. Just as people of one generation didn't understand Rock n' Roll, perhaps we're starting to experience the same lack of understanding of a younger generation. - razei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Eh. I don't blog about my personal life anyway. Why? Who would want to read it?
- djSyndrome, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I have no idea what you just said. Does that make me an outstanding member of society, or a poor parent?
- phil.busch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8pic?
- kbarrett, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Does anyone have a link to the actual blog?
The irony. - compu73rg33k, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9OMG monergism your life is so awesome!1! link to your blog so I can read all your adventures!?!?1? Maybe they'll make a movie out of it!1!
Seriously though, we don't care. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I am SO IMPORTANT that I need to have a place in the world DEDICATED TO ME so EVERYONE ON EARTH can knwo EVERYTHING ABOUT ME that I do EVERY DAY.
It isn't about a diary. It's about exposing yourself to the world to get people to like you if you're cool enough, fun enough or have enough interesting thoughts or events. I'm ***** tired of people justifying spilling their every day activities all over myspace or some livejournal or blog because "Oh, I just use it for a personal diary".
*****! If that were true, you wouldn't be sharing it with dozens or hundreds of friends (or "online" friends that you have never even met). You wouldn't even be doing it online! You'd hav a ***** text file that you would write your stuff in and keep it for yourself.
It's all about popularity and being an attention whore. So these people need to stop acting like it's anything other than that. You are self-centered, dull, attention-whoring ass-wipes trying to out-cool your other lame friends so they'll want to get to know you and you will feel that you are super popular and cool because, while nobody in real life wants anythign to do with you, plenty of people across the planet hit your site or add you as a "friend" on myspace. So you MUST be interesting! - Gaius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6So while our parents said: "I didn't inhale", the future Ms. Blogger will say: "I didn't hit 'publish'" ;P
- Y0tsuya, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5She's supposed to be studying and getting her tuition's worth. Oh wait, daddy's paying for it so she doesn't give a sh1t.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Another thing about blogging, is that sometimes, people lives *are* interesting. Take the homeless blogger, for instance. Who would've thought the life of a homeless man could be so interesting.
The problem lies in people who blog who have nothing interesting to say that would be appealing to a mass group of people, and only their friends or acquaintances, and even then, those friends and acquaintances would argue that there's nothing *disinteresting* about those blogs.
It's all about the new world of niche. Maybe I'll write a blog about it. - ravenmuffin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5merreborn> My fiance posted something about missing a period
So is that why she's your fiance now...?
Congrats, if needed! - Dayz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Of the 12 million bloggers on the Internet, 54 percent are younger than 30, according to a July study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project."
Obviously the older people blog just as much as the young do. I don’t know why the young are being so criticized. - spikeb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4haha i love all the old geezers whining about bloggers and blogs - it's kind of pathetic. don't like it? don't read it, don't do it. Blogs can be diaries, poetry places, news blogs, etc - it's wide, varied, and sometimes personal. Get over yourself and let people do what they do.
- spkaine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Take all of your comments for example. Who the hell are you people? I don't know.
But I do know, I read every single one of them and sometimes - just skip the article afterwords. You all said it in your own way, better then the article in most cases.
This, my Digg friends - is why blogs are so popular. - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Companies and lawyers and so many others are retaining these records"
There's also http://archive.org and dozens of other similar projects.
The recent AOL data leak is another good example: Post it once, and it's on the net forever. - pixelmixer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3im not sure I would want my parents or children to read my .pubic. blogs either.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Exactly. I have people ask me all the time why I don't have a blog or use MySpace much (I run a big website, so they expect me to be very social, I guess). The fact of the matter is, if someone wants to know about my life or what's going on or my thoughts about something, THEY CAN TALK TO ME AND WE CAN HAVE A CONVERSATION.
Otherwise, what I have to say -- no matter how interesting or unusual -- is not worth sticking on the internet for the world to see or for everyone to come along and discuss, as if I'm some hub of cultural interest. I'm a nobody just like 99.999% of people on the internet are. Just because you have something to say doesn't mean it's something worth hearing.
People who say they blog because "there are people I want to stay in touch with or share what is going on in my life with" are full of *****. How hard is it to have a ***** conversation? What these people are really saying is "I have more interesting things to say and my life is so much more interesting that you should take time out of your day to come find out what I am doing or thinking, but I shouldn't take the time to pick up the phone, write an email, find you on instant messenger or otherwise have a bi-directional conversation with you.". - pixelmixer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think your idea of the demographic of 'young' is a bit different than others... sure 54% are under 30... but how many are under 20?... i'll bet at least a fair majority of those 54% are above 20.
- Tawni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wonder when common sense will come back in style? If these bloggers had any we would not be discussing this.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Its easy to forget when blogging about what other people might read, or "pass along" even if its nothing, people will find a way to turn it into something. Because they dont have anything better to do.;
- straylightrise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2his dad didn't own the company he was in the legal counsel
- djSyndrome, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Meanwhile, junior is currently looking for a new place to live (as well as a new job...)
- Shinta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Too bad nobody does that.
- Kazanoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"52 percent said they do so to express themselves creatively, and 50 percent said they blog to document and share their personal experiences"
I forsee a problem. - ericeman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And Shinta, your life may not be interesting but it's your job as a blogger to make it interesting. Life may be mundane from one perspective but totally interesting from another.
Think Seinfeld- Jerry's life is seemingly mundane but the perspective they take on it is really funny. It's one thing to say your life is boring, but that doesn't mean your take on it can't be interesting. - The_Dude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2To all the under 30 bloggers and spoiled-kids-of-wealthy-parents boggers....keep saying all the crap that can get you in trouble, and stick it to the Man, because everyone else over 30 has to keep their head down, shut up, and work for the Man.
- CunningLinguist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"kids say the darndest things..."
So would you if you didn't have any education! - OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks for the translation.
- withstolenwings, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's actually what that means, to the best of my knowledge. It's easy to understand people speaking like that when you go to public schools.
- OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1all us adults just break the law in ways that are difficult to trace or are poorly enforced, and don't go around posting evidence everywhere. we're more responsible.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"Another thing to keep in mind is, if so many people are doing it, and you think it's stupid, pointless, or a waste of your time, then it's far more likely that there is something you just plain don't understand about it. Just as people of one generation didn't understand Rock n' Roll, perhaps we're starting to experience the same lack of understanding of a younger generation."
No. Chances are that the majority of people (hence, most people are doing it) are just self-centered, egotistical attention-whores who don't care what everyone else is doing because they're too busy thinking about what to tell people about themselves next.
Half of the population might have a "blog", but 99.98% of *those* people should just go the ***** away and learn to use a personal diary rather than vomiting more boring ***** into the ether. - bluemist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2At least anime fans and politicians have specific stories and topics to tell, which is interesting for some people.
EMO crap isn't. - HonoredMule, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2wow...did you make that up or is it what it really means?
I seriously can't tell. I would have guessed some dude was hitting on a girl, rudely propositioning her. - monergism, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The Internet cache continues to grow. Companies and lawyers and so many others are retaining these records and then, when Ms. Blogger grows up and runs for Mayor or applies for a position with Company X, the record will release and the details of adolescence behavior, which was previously deniable, will be public record.
I was, and thanks to cache, still am quite well known on a web search. I have since abandoned my old websites and usernames and remained obscure. -
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