Getting Defensive Over Blogs

[Rigor Mortis]

Honestly. Why the hell do people give a crap about someone's opinion on a journal or their entries? These things are expected to be childish, incomplete, ruled by mood, and...personal! Yet we have dumbasses out there who think blogs are an encyclepedia(sp?), or whatever is slectively public as the whole truth and nothing but.

I say that unless you've never, ever held an unpopular opinion or a negative one of someone and kept it to yourself, then you've no right to try and control or seriously take things personally from someone who makes their thoughts public.

[Tor]

There's some blogs that effect a larger range of people. I mean I guess it's normal for it to happen. But yes it's pretty stupid.

You know how it it is dude...this is america. People get mad at stupid things...yup.

[Rigor Mortis]

Sometimes I have people who bug me about my blog. Personal blogs are usually, childish, immature, incomplete, and one-sided. They're just ramblings. They're fueled by emotions and not always logical.

People take my blog more seriously because I don't type in chat speak or because I have more crap to ramble about. One of these days I'm going to write a hate speech on M & M's. Just to insult the intelligence of people who have nothing better to do than to boil over some guy's, "Dear Journal, I ate nachos today. Blah blah."

[Tor]

Dude...you just brought back bad memories about the MM's I ordered online...that damn bastards.

I can see people commenting on your blogs. You have some interesting stuff to blog about. Maybe you're just more educated than some other people and you know what hell you're talking about.

Blogging is okay if you have people to read and comment. But if you no one to read or comment, it seems like a waste of time to me.

[Rigor Mortis]

Personally I don't care if people read or they don't. It's really for me to check my progress, and see if I matured or changed at all. I find typing easier than writing on paper since my handwriting sucks. XD

A sorta therapeutic type thing. Some people just don't understand that some people use it to vent or whatever and take the entries seriously. Or they do but SOMEBODY in my case thinks I can't but it's okay for her to complain about people in hers'. >_>;;

I'm not saying in blogs that people can write ANYTHING they want. Such examples: cyber bullying, plagiarising(sp?), harassment, etc.

It's just for typical things, they should be allowed to. That's what it's for.

[MasterBeef]

god hella memories are coming backwhen I had a Xanga and hella ppl were talking shit and starting hella shit me just for being myself I was bullied hella badly back then on the internet, causing me to keep myself away from ppl from school when it has something to do with online shit, so I don't do that, that or I make up many alias.

[DOMOSTICK]

I find blogging a waste of time, and people who would read them and take them seriouusly need to get a life or something. To vent I would rather talk to somebody then type it onlnine.

[Rigor Mortis]

Nobody laughs, kicks you down, or calls you an emo when you vent in person?

[SN]

For example, if I felt this person is being abusive/misleading and we're what supposedly is intimate, I can't pretend that they didn't just say what they might've but otherwise, blogs are personal space with just often incomplete perspectives and that deserves respect.
It's not a matter of controlling what the other thinks but sometimes, when you say what you might not mean especially on what is a sensitive/critical topic, there is a high possibility that it will have an affect on the person that is being talked about.

[Rigor Mortis]

Who's to say what's misleading and what isn't, considering that it's based on a perspective? Sometimes people don't understand that at times people have their days and that one extremely angry post doesn't necessarily reflect how a person can entirely feel about said person or subject.

Has anyone invaded a sibling's personal written diary? Now I've read a few things about me that weren't very flattering at times but then as I read the rest of the crap, I learn that she doesn't really have any personal grudges against me. It's just that at times, I'm a nut and I can understand that.

Because people can watch the progress of a blog and day-to-day entries don't just happen in one day, people are just hasty and quick to assume that one entry represents everything that the person feels about them. So then they take it personally.

Also there are times that a person actually DOES hate or are really annoyed by someone. Getting angry at someone for how they honestly feel, no matter how unflattering is ridiculous and just a waste of time. Rather than getting pissy or trying to force them to believe something else, people should either, 1. Try NOT to be annoying, 2. Talk to the person about it to resolve the issue, or 3. Ditch the person and get on with their life if they feel they shouldn't have to change. Yelling, whining, or cursing at them isn't going to change someone's point of view.

There's no way around that one. If people can't get over the fact that maybe someone doesn't like them at all, then they should either get over it or just save themselves the trouble of real life by jumping off a bridge.

But really, if people want to find something out, it's really better to ask than being an *** and treating a blog like a bible.