the politics of blogging

i like this post ‘bloglitics’ from kenny sia. a very well thought-up comprehensive list indeed. i can relate to a few of the points there, like:

1. If you write about your daily life, people will say that your daily life is very boring.

If you don’t write about your daily life, people will say that you have no life.

2. If you post photos of yourself in your blog, people will say you are an attention-seeking bitch.

If you don’t post photos of yourself in your blog, people will say you’re an ugly-looking anonymous coward hiding behind the computer screen.

3. If you write socio-political blogs, people will say you are boring.

If you don’t write socio-political blogs, people will say you are infantile.

4. If you write about Malaysian issues, people will say you’re trying to imitate Jeff Ooi.

well, what to do. you can’t please everyone, and life is indeed fill with poltics here and there.

whatever we blog about, of course is based on our own personal opinion. there are hundreds of people out there who read our blogs, and of course out of these hundreds (or thousands for some blogs), there is bound to be one or more who disagree with us. so what? they are entittled to their own opinion, and as long as they are not abusive, leave them be, do not chide them.

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i found out that when i comment on a person’s blog, disagreeing with what that person blogs on, more often than not, it is not the blogger himself/herself that will chide me but other commenters! what is this? can’t i have an opinion of myself? can’t i disagree with the blogger? do i have to agree just to be ‘in the crowd’? or like some say, don’t be a spoilsport… everybody agree, but why you disagree? isn’t that plain ridiculous??

i remember once some blogger put up a picture of 2 men (bloggers too i think) hugging and call it ‘picture of the century’. everybody who came in to comment went “wow! unbelievable! indeed picture of the century!”, “wow! i can’t believe this. 2 men hugging!”, “i salute x and y for hugging and dare to have their picture up.”, “this is a fantastic picture!”, “good to see in public 2 men hugging” and all that sorts. but i came in and said “what’s the big deal about 2 men hugging? it happened all the while and i had seen many pictures of 2 men hugging.” then some of the commenters get pissed off at me just because i said that.

another example is when a blogger blogs on say numerology and all, if not most of the commenters write things like they believe in numerology but i came in and said numerology is all nonsense… because that is my own personal opinion as i don’t believe in it. then a commenter (not the blogger!) will chided me for refering to numerology as nonsense. ridiculous! to me it is nonsense so i said it… what’s wrong with that? maybe they want me to be more tactful… keep my opnion to myself especially when it is something negative.

sorry lah friends, tactful is not my middle name… especially when i need to voice out what i feel deep inside me… hey, i’m being honest! i am out-spoken and i like to say out what i think without fear or favour. ah yes, that’s the word i’m looking for… favour. i believe some commenters like to agree with what the blogger writes on because of favour?? oops. i’m going to get some flak for saying this. see, the peril of being out-spoken (and yet i do it!).