4 Types of Bloggers (via nevver)
shooshee: it’s funny because it’s true
I love statements like this because I’m almost always proof of them NOT being true.
I’ve been blogging since before it was called “blogging” (that’s 1997/8ish). Somewhere around 2000, I started using GreyMatter to blog with. Before then I was just editing raw HTML on a weekly basis. I stuck with GreyMatter up to November of 2004. I switched to WordPress then and used it until last September when I got fed up with having to update the damn thing so many times a year, thus watching my layouts and plugins break, forcing me to do loads of extra work just to keep things functioning from one month to the next.
I’m on Tumblr not because I’m lazy, but because I’m tired of working so hard just to provide content I believe in. I’m not lazy and I’m tired of seeing myself and people like myself being categorized as such by a bunch of judgmental assholes who think they can determine why the people in the world do what they do.
It’s like people who think Twitter is just for people to post about when they take a dump. Or like people who think it’s right for them to decide what is interesting and what isn’t.
I’m pretty sure I understand why people do this—it’s out of a fear of uncertainty. This kind of judgmental behavior seems to make people feel more safe, more secure about themselves to be able to judge other people and other things as one way or another. It creates the illusion of a stable reality, when really, reality isn’t all that stable.
So, don’t call me lazy because I use Tumblr. I have over ten Tumblr blogs I do my best to post to on a regular basis. Does that sound like “lazy” to you? To me, it seems like I simply have different priorities. I’d rather work hard on content and than on keeping my site’s back-end up-to-date with the whims of code devs who insist on fixing things that aren’t broken and then force you to deal with nag messages until you do.
Sorry to get off on a rant here, but generalizations like this hurt everyone who actually gives a crap about what they do on the web, regardless of where they do it. It belittles our efforts to help make the world a better place (whether through snarky frivolity or cogent commentary) and disrespects the time sacrificed by us to do so, most of the time, with little or no monetary benefit.
We do it because we are passionate for the work. So, please, we “Internet-types” take enough shit. Let’s not dump more on each other.
So, I’d rather believe in a world of “polytypical” bloggers—a world where bloggers all blog the way they do for various reasons of their own—some good and some bad.
Yes, I know the original post is just a joke, but I think it’s a mistake to say nothing while we bloggers become the butt of what used to be jokes making fun of the Polish or of lawyers.
Hey, we’re nowhere as bad as those guys.
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