When blogs gets to Clog!

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 The whole Internet world is going ga-ga over the beauty of blogging, about what it can do to people, all the way from an expressive adrenaline junkie to a corporate public relations manager. It has evoked many a response from apparently everyone on the Internet circuit and has even managed to rake in a little moolah for the green-thumbed. It is still, however, not free from its own fallacies.

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   1. For the newbies, for those wishing to blog for fun, those wishing to blog just to reveal what they do everyday or perhaps there might be some who maintain a daily journal of their lives – It has turned out to be a free, very-publicly-kept-secret media for expression. Ain’t that beating the whole purpose of maintaining your secrets for yourself? I mean, do you even get a life? if I wanted, I could have found out everything about you, assuming of course that you blog that well.
       
   2. For most of the other wanna-be green-thumbs, it has evolved as a money making tool with all due thanks to the concept of ‘monetizing’ the blogs. Has it all spawned a commercial revolution? Are these blogs just written to make more money? Is all content on the blog more like sales-letters which only have one measly, dirty and self-driven intention. So are we stating here that suddenly, you find content for others to make money online, but to not equip yourself with new-found knowledge?
       
   3. Corporates off-late have felt that blogging is one sure shot way to expose their company to the netizen masses. A venerable marketing strategy and obviously an unbiased – but – controlled – by – the – company source of information for the customers who would have been looking for a little more information beyond the colourful, pretty brochures and the glib sales talk. It indeed is and there are no questions about the power of such media. But then, the customers still don’t get to voice their feedback, do they? It’s all regulated and the content isn’t really, free-flowing. Have the corporates spread their ugly we-will-smash-anyone-who-stands-up-to-fight-our-system tentacles to the blogosphere too?
       

That being the bigger picture, all the time you were glued in front of the computer, or saddling the  laptop, you could have used it to play with your kids, take your wife out shopping, speak to momma, go walking with your old man, meet friends, date your date or simply attend french classes or learn how to salsa, while blogging could have been one of the activities on the list, couldn’t it? The sad truth is that it kills social life and makes you look like an ever-sagging blog instead.

I don’t contest the fact that blogs are a venerable media, a powerful one too. However, if it can be consuming, you can forget the veneration, monetizing, SEO and  traffic contests and worry about yourself.