These days people write mostly online, they blog. I hate the idea that gone are the days where everything that was felt and thought of was created not only mentally but physically with the effort of writing it down letter by letter with your own bare hands. That the labor of love, the way an artist or a writer creates their latest work, is blogged for not the same reasons. I must be getting old, and I am having a hard time adjusting to this new technology thing. Blog is the online journal for people right? Is that what it's for or has it become a blunt marketing technique to spam ads for scams, or maybe they are legitimate, who knows I'm oblivious right now to that. I do not judge anything I don't completely understand. Have these on line journals/blogs become a mass production for cheap advertising? Maybe I am misunderstanding something.
Bloggers write for a specific purpose, each blog isn't cluttered and a writer will have different blogs for different subjects. Each specialized blog--it's like a TV commercial for dish washing soap aired in between a soap opera to get the proper audience.
Someone's personal blog written about themselves that has no appeal to the masses or have marketing value would not get attention. They should understand it could only be appreciated by them, like before the internet came along, when you would journal your thoughts for yourself only to read.
And my blog is for me, but I also want an audience to see and realize these changes and how different things are now; when everything is sent by fax and email and no one lifts a pen or a quill to carefully write down their thoughts.
And how how I will always be the hopeless romantic and think that there is nothing better than receiving a written letter on paper in ink, where the ink will change its color and fade over time and the paper will crumple and wither, the way nature intended.
I titled this entry Blogger's block because I had writer's block and I just felt like I had to rant, as if it were my personal journal; this is what my journal entry would be for the day.
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