The blogmistress of Once Upon a Time… (aka my sister) offers an instructive parable for bloggers with a sobering moral:
"If a person starts a blog and begins revealing intimate and private details of his life, he will attract attention. No one asked him to put himself out there, but he did. Eventually, the attention and the demands of the public leave him feeling that he has nothing private left to himself. He is conflicted because he enjoyed the audience that would read his posts gratefully. Over time, there are certain readers who demand more and more, or who may judge him for the way he lives his life and write him to say so. The man doesn’t want to lose his audience, but he sees that the price he paid for giving away his privacy is that the public feels that what he has given away is no longer just his. They are entitled to it also. Eventually, he stops blogging altogether…"
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I see the shuttle from Rigel VI arrived safely.
I wouldn’t be too sure of that, bill912.
It looks to me like somebody took a hard knock to the head during the trip.
I’ve never understood why anyone would bother to fire off this kind of vicious, gibbering tirade to a perfectly ordinary, unsuspecting blog host, just for the purpose of letting everyone within earshot know that they think you are doing a crappy job and that you must be a horrible person.
Here’s an idea; Go Away.
That way, you won’t have to suffer through the musings of any “unaccomplished twenty-something”, and we won’t have to put up with the vindictive bile of people who have nothing better to do than pound out their crabbiness on a keyboard.
Rough day at the office?
Drop us all a note when you win YOUR Pulitzer.