Blogs and Bloggers

There are blogs about how to blog, blogs about the best subject to blog, blogs about law, blogs about child abuse, blogs about domestic violence, blogs about animals, gardening, fashion, paganism, polytheism, witchcraft, trains, buses, aeroplanes and so on...There are blogs about blogs, blogs about how to get more visitors and there are blogs that like to consider themselves magazines or better yet newspapers.

There are journalists who are bloggers and whilst they do usually have a blog they boast about they often also have blogs they would rather not be publicly associated with and there are bloggers who tell as many people as possible especially if the occasion demands it the police, that they are journalists.

Many bloggers are or were teachers. I always say the only reason an English teacher, for eg, is teaching is they can't actually write, and this is a subject I'm going to explore fully with examples in a blog coming to your doubtless eager eyes and gnashing teeth soon. I don't pay much attention to my own grammar and punctuation bloggers put me off and then I got stubborn...But! I do pay attention to some others depend upon it it will be educational

I'm not against blogging I like my blogs and I like to read the blogs others write, but I have discovered through painful experience that there's an underbelly to blogging, several times bloggers have gone too far been caught and managed to look as though theirs is an isolated case, but if you look you find its not an isolated case at all it is in fact the modus operandi and main reason for the existence of many blogs, which in case you hadn't realised it is to become famous celebrities by exposing the outrageous behaviour of others as much as possible. Imagine it all the lonely self deceiving bloggers loose in the ether all of them thinking they know everything and, this is the important bit, they are above the law.

It may not seem so but I think blogs can be very dangerous things they seem to give some bloggers a sense of power, a feeling of invincibility as if they don't live in this world they frolic in an other worldly bubble happily trapped and usually only threatened when one or other of those isolated cases get caught, and that too is a subject I intend to explore fully in the not too distant future, and again there will be several examples.

It seems to me blogging is an illusion to which some particularly vulnerable people with perhaps not many friends in the real world cling. It saves them from reality and I don't know if that's a good or bad thing. I do know if I had been such a person with no experience and much younger I might have fallen into it, perhaps even with family, friends and sixty years experience I might have succumbed, if that is some bloggers hadn't shown the blogging underbelly they never talk, let alone write about in all its vicious, parasitical and hypocritical glory.

I've had enough of all of them and from now on they can all expect me to be on their backs. Here and quite soon on a new web site and from a new laptop. Truth is truth even for bloggers