Blogging not Dead
Hello..
let's all take a minute to think about the ones who lost their lives in Taiwan due to the earthquake and for once, not think about how sucky the internet connection is nowadays because of the damage done to the cables underwater. One blogger was right. We are so lost in the world of technology that we forget about the world of humanity. We're more concerned about not being to play our favourite game online than those who are not able to find shelter when their homes have been destroyed by the earthquake. Even when you're watching the news, and the special programmes, they highlighted the damage done to the internet and how catastrophic it is because traders are losing money by the second..millions or billions of it...rather than how much money is involved in repairing the damaged homes so that people can continue with their lives. Are we that pathetic? On my part as mentioned in my previous post, I also pity those who are risking their lives even as we speak repairing the damaged cables as the world hurries them on to shorten the delay just so that they are able to surf or make money again. These people have families and it is not as if the tremors would not come back and worse, they are right at the core of the earthquake. So once again, if your internet is down or very the slow, please...........have patience. You won't die from a serious lack of internet.
In another point of view, I've been doing a lot of bloghopping recently among the small Malay community in Singapore and sad to say, none of them ever mentioned about such world disasters except for one who was bummed out because she couldn't visit a holiday resort in Bangkok due to the bombings. Prior the earthquakes and the bombings, to be honest with you, none actually made an impact on me that I would be coming back to check out for any updates. Call me an idiot or what but I don't like to read long descriptions of someone's holidays or trip to a shopping mall or their clubbing adventure. I mean, snippets are okay but if it going to be what they bought, what shops they go to, who they met, what they wore...it will be one big yawn fiesta for me. Seriously people, half of the population here don't care especially when most of your entries comprised of that. Oh, and how much you love your significant other that you basically don't have a life of your own if not for this person.
I know that people are entitled to write whatever sh*t they want on their blogs including yours truly especially when I complain about my weight and about my mum. But I think a blog should also be three dimensional rather than just two and not because you're doing it for the readers but you're doing for yourself and Im sure after awhile, you're not going to care about what you bought the other day right? I would rather read about the strong opinions of a blogger regarding anything they see or they hear whether or not they are of significant importance because it will set me pondering and then forming my own opinions. To tell you frankly, there are a lot of people out there who have a lot of good points but just cannot come round to verbalising their thoughts because of extreme shyness..phobia...or they're simply not bothered anymore because they have been constantly snubbed or they think their opinions are not important at all. So for these people, don't think of yourself as a threat that once you lay your opinions down, people will avoid you like some deadly disease. Start a blog if you can since it's free anyway and start writing. I read in the Digital Life today that it has been predicted that the world of blogging is dying soon in 2007 because at least 1.2million or more blogs have not been updated for the longest time or people totally stopped updating anymore. I may have not given the correct figure but I know that it is in the million. So why don't we prove to these geekheads that blogging is not dead yet. Infact, it is just about to become alive because with a milion blogs dying, twice of that is blooming.
Oh, and let's do those good blogs a favour by plugging them on our site so people can divert their full attention from some celebrities' blogs who have nothing better to say except to milk attention from the public. Or money even. Im sure our lives are more interesting than them. However, the are some celebrities who can really write and not forgetting, honest in their entries that make us remember that amidst that glitz and glamour, they are just humans like us prone to mistakes and the harsh realities of life but of which the media made such a big hoo-haa over. Sometimes, it is better to not be a celebrity but what to do...let's just be thankful we're not..hehe.
let's all take a minute to think about the ones who lost their lives in Taiwan due to the earthquake and for once, not think about how sucky the internet connection is nowadays because of the damage done to the cables underwater. One blogger was right. We are so lost in the world of technology that we forget about the world of humanity. We're more concerned about not being to play our favourite game online than those who are not able to find shelter when their homes have been destroyed by the earthquake. Even when you're watching the news, and the special programmes, they highlighted the damage done to the internet and how catastrophic it is because traders are losing money by the second..millions or billions of it...rather than how much money is involved in repairing the damaged homes so that people can continue with their lives. Are we that pathetic? On my part as mentioned in my previous post, I also pity those who are risking their lives even as we speak repairing the damaged cables as the world hurries them on to shorten the delay just so that they are able to surf or make money again. These people have families and it is not as if the tremors would not come back and worse, they are right at the core of the earthquake. So once again, if your internet is down or very the slow, please...........have patience. You won't die from a serious lack of internet.
In another point of view, I've been doing a lot of bloghopping recently among the small Malay community in Singapore and sad to say, none of them ever mentioned about such world disasters except for one who was bummed out because she couldn't visit a holiday resort in Bangkok due to the bombings. Prior the earthquakes and the bombings, to be honest with you, none actually made an impact on me that I would be coming back to check out for any updates. Call me an idiot or what but I don't like to read long descriptions of someone's holidays or trip to a shopping mall or their clubbing adventure. I mean, snippets are okay but if it going to be what they bought, what shops they go to, who they met, what they wore...it will be one big yawn fiesta for me. Seriously people, half of the population here don't care especially when most of your entries comprised of that. Oh, and how much you love your significant other that you basically don't have a life of your own if not for this person.
I know that people are entitled to write whatever sh*t they want on their blogs including yours truly especially when I complain about my weight and about my mum. But I think a blog should also be three dimensional rather than just two and not because you're doing it for the readers but you're doing for yourself and Im sure after awhile, you're not going to care about what you bought the other day right? I would rather read about the strong opinions of a blogger regarding anything they see or they hear whether or not they are of significant importance because it will set me pondering and then forming my own opinions. To tell you frankly, there are a lot of people out there who have a lot of good points but just cannot come round to verbalising their thoughts because of extreme shyness..phobia...or they're simply not bothered anymore because they have been constantly snubbed or they think their opinions are not important at all. So for these people, don't think of yourself as a threat that once you lay your opinions down, people will avoid you like some deadly disease. Start a blog if you can since it's free anyway and start writing. I read in the Digital Life today that it has been predicted that the world of blogging is dying soon in 2007 because at least 1.2million or more blogs have not been updated for the longest time or people totally stopped updating anymore. I may have not given the correct figure but I know that it is in the million. So why don't we prove to these geekheads that blogging is not dead yet. Infact, it is just about to become alive because with a milion blogs dying, twice of that is blooming.
Oh, and let's do those good blogs a favour by plugging them on our site so people can divert their full attention from some celebrities' blogs who have nothing better to say except to milk attention from the public. Or money even. Im sure our lives are more interesting than them. However, the are some celebrities who can really write and not forgetting, honest in their entries that make us remember that amidst that glitz and glamour, they are just humans like us prone to mistakes and the harsh realities of life but of which the media made such a big hoo-haa over. Sometimes, it is better to not be a celebrity but what to do...let's just be thankful we're not..hehe.
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