Blogging as a topic has aroused a lot of emotions and most of them are negatively pointed my way. Have been wrong before but let’s try defining a blogger by their attributes. This is a group that is educated, affluent and influential. Or in other words, self righteous hobbyist who think they are the only ones who analyze life. Not forgetting they love pointing the finger at mainstream media yet they practice information over-share and snitch their sources only to play the “emotional” card.
Statistics have it that the largest blogging age range is between 25-44 years and out of this 66% are male. Those of us who grew up in the rural areas know that if your father is an upstanding citizen part of the package is the factor that they will never say the have certain problem. Well, unlike those men, most male blogger- approximately the age 30- who have been looking for girl (wife) to take home so desperately and end up hurt, you will find them on their blogs, ranting to a point of insulting the “poor lady.”
A time is long gone when people didn’t dwell on their problems but ploughed through them because the hardship made the fruits sweeter. A society that cares very little for their neighbor forgetting that we are who we are by the virtue that they are part of our world.
I sat down with a friend of mine who weirdly has a blog but does not see the need of having it. After speaking to him in length if found a man who so opinionated that it hurts. When I say hurts I mean in the real sense, we all have that one friend who for some reason still loves cartoons and hates movies yet they their job tilts more to the latter. The guy who put in a DVD but before the movie is half way his out as a light. When asked why he never watches movies to the end, he gives you the same answer your Dad would “I have better things to do” or the classic “zinanisaidia aje?”
“I have a blog because the teacher wanted us to open one and post “things” on it.” He says. “Then why do you still have it?” I ask.
“I never really got around to closing it.” How convenient, I though(I know, I use convenient a lot) but here is a man who won’t go into details about his feeling, not even to the wife but keeps this blog that he referred to as useless?
I would not be amazed if the blog was still active for other reasons. He can be anyone he wants to be and write anything he wants to write without been judged. For instance, one of the founding Presidents of America wrote letters to the editor of a paper pretending to be a woman.
Makes no sense?
My second interviewee was a lady, who gave a relevant argument for blogging and truth be told, most of the blogs I found women actively participating where all because or based on prier engagement with men. When I asked her if she thinks that it is good for men to blog I got an answer I didn’t expect.
“Yes, of late it can be established that men have become less violent and have over time learnt to express themselves.” If your reading this and are in shock, believe me your reaction was more controlled than what I let out. (Not what you’re thinking)
A blog originally was derived from a diary, a diary which once upon a time held secrets to a little girl and lonely lady whose lover was far from her. From the diary came the letters and we went on and come up with the chat, facebooks, and Twitter was not far behind. Blogs came before facebook but due to the fact that there use remains constant during this time if found it not “wise” to include it in the dying-chain of communication channels.
Some of the reason we get when asking this questions are that “I want to let the world in”, “I want to share my expertise” and to some “I want to get a book deal.” All good ideas but I don’t see a reason for a blog. Am I Narrow minded?
Maybe, but for the risk of sounding chauvinistic, aren’t this the reasons women give? I mean that women deal with their problems through talking and sharing. When did men join the group? Let me explain. Statistics have it that two-thirds of bloggers are male, 75% have college degrees and to make matters better one of three have annual house hold income of 75,000 dollars(in shillings we are talking about approximately 6.3 million) and 80% have families. We still do our social required duties and also get to seat in front of a computer and show off our mental prowess and have a crack at anyone who does not agree with us.
When diaries where diaries, men NEVER kept diaries, they certainly had no time to think about what they were feeling. It was more of “learn on the job thing.” What does this mean? Either the men are growing weaker (emotionally that is) or …they are growing weaker. What’s next, knitting?
When life is better and we think that because we are not sleeping hungry we have the leisure to explore the other side of ourselves is what is destroying everything as we know it. As we, men write in our “private diaries of what we can do rather than doing what is required of us, the world is spinning out of control.
We need to express ourselves. Blogs are good to some extent but I think we lived in a society made up with many bruised personalities who think by owning a blog and ranting about minor issues because they constantly need to reassure themselves that they are doing the right thing.
The main problem are the “BLOGGERS” who for some reason think that their reasoning and what they contribute to the social-network via the net is so important and they should be held higher than other.
Bashing on the mainstream media and think that free and continuous flow of information is always healthy is what miss-informed members of society think. As a leader some information is better never revealed.
What I think is that the world is doing a lot of talking and very soon there will be no one to listen and at this rate we will be doomed. Business and marketing world is too absorbed in getting there brand out there to focus on who is reading.
Statistics have it that the largest blogging age range is between 25-44 years and out of this 66% are male. Those of us who grew up in the rural areas know that if your father is an upstanding citizen part of the package is the factor that they will never say the have certain problem. Well, unlike those men, most male blogger- approximately the age 30- who have been looking for girl (wife) to take home so desperately and end up hurt, you will find them on their blogs, ranting to a point of insulting the “poor lady.”
A time is long gone when people didn’t dwell on their problems but ploughed through them because the hardship made the fruits sweeter. A society that cares very little for their neighbor forgetting that we are who we are by the virtue that they are part of our world.
I sat down with a friend of mine who weirdly has a blog but does not see the need of having it. After speaking to him in length if found a man who so opinionated that it hurts. When I say hurts I mean in the real sense, we all have that one friend who for some reason still loves cartoons and hates movies yet they their job tilts more to the latter. The guy who put in a DVD but before the movie is half way his out as a light. When asked why he never watches movies to the end, he gives you the same answer your Dad would “I have better things to do” or the classic “zinanisaidia aje?”
“I have a blog because the teacher wanted us to open one and post “things” on it.” He says. “Then why do you still have it?” I ask.
“I never really got around to closing it.” How convenient, I though(I know, I use convenient a lot) but here is a man who won’t go into details about his feeling, not even to the wife but keeps this blog that he referred to as useless?
I would not be amazed if the blog was still active for other reasons. He can be anyone he wants to be and write anything he wants to write without been judged. For instance, one of the founding Presidents of America wrote letters to the editor of a paper pretending to be a woman.
Makes no sense?
My second interviewee was a lady, who gave a relevant argument for blogging and truth be told, most of the blogs I found women actively participating where all because or based on prier engagement with men. When I asked her if she thinks that it is good for men to blog I got an answer I didn’t expect.
“Yes, of late it can be established that men have become less violent and have over time learnt to express themselves.” If your reading this and are in shock, believe me your reaction was more controlled than what I let out. (Not what you’re thinking)
A blog originally was derived from a diary, a diary which once upon a time held secrets to a little girl and lonely lady whose lover was far from her. From the diary came the letters and we went on and come up with the chat, facebooks, and Twitter was not far behind. Blogs came before facebook but due to the fact that there use remains constant during this time if found it not “wise” to include it in the dying-chain of communication channels.
Some of the reason we get when asking this questions are that “I want to let the world in”, “I want to share my expertise” and to some “I want to get a book deal.” All good ideas but I don’t see a reason for a blog. Am I Narrow minded?
Maybe, but for the risk of sounding chauvinistic, aren’t this the reasons women give? I mean that women deal with their problems through talking and sharing. When did men join the group? Let me explain. Statistics have it that two-thirds of bloggers are male, 75% have college degrees and to make matters better one of three have annual house hold income of 75,000 dollars(in shillings we are talking about approximately 6.3 million) and 80% have families. We still do our social required duties and also get to seat in front of a computer and show off our mental prowess and have a crack at anyone who does not agree with us.
When diaries where diaries, men NEVER kept diaries, they certainly had no time to think about what they were feeling. It was more of “learn on the job thing.” What does this mean? Either the men are growing weaker (emotionally that is) or …they are growing weaker. What’s next, knitting?
When life is better and we think that because we are not sleeping hungry we have the leisure to explore the other side of ourselves is what is destroying everything as we know it. As we, men write in our “private diaries of what we can do rather than doing what is required of us, the world is spinning out of control.
We need to express ourselves. Blogs are good to some extent but I think we lived in a society made up with many bruised personalities who think by owning a blog and ranting about minor issues because they constantly need to reassure themselves that they are doing the right thing.
The main problem are the “BLOGGERS” who for some reason think that their reasoning and what they contribute to the social-network via the net is so important and they should be held higher than other.
Bashing on the mainstream media and think that free and continuous flow of information is always healthy is what miss-informed members of society think. As a leader some information is better never revealed.
What I think is that the world is doing a lot of talking and very soon there will be no one to listen and at this rate we will be doomed. Business and marketing world is too absorbed in getting there brand out there to focus on who is reading.
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