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Blogs | 17 novembre 2008

Nobody blogs anymore. With Facebook, Myspace or all these site commonly and rightly referred to as "MYFACE" by my friend Finna there is much less interest in blogs in general. Its a shame. These Community websites reduce communication to witty one-liners or "poking" or other weird actions to all your "friends" (sometimes people you've only met once) but they dont have the depth of the blog. Of course you have political blogs such as the Huffington post and all these blogs connected to the online papers but still its not the same. Take my friend Douglas for example. The perfect blogger. Has interesting ideas and always something to say - well if he limits his blogs for the France 24 website Im sure he does alot of self-censorship - not saying all he means since its all "on the record". With a more personal blog he could let loose his thoughts and feelings, although he would always have to be a little bit careful, because even personal blogs can get you into trouble when you become a public person.

I often wonder how far to go in my entries. What to say and what to leave out... just because you never know who is reading what you write. Im not paranoid though. I know my boss at work for example would have very limited interest in my stories...as have many of my friends actually. Was at one point wondering if I should put a link on my Facebook page so all of my 316 "really really close friends" could come and have a look at it... but when you think about it - Why would you want people you dont know that well to know what you are thinking? That would be like putting a "status" (another magical facebook tool) saying " Miss or mister is depressed and does not want to get out of bed". Wouldn't that be weird? You only share when all is good, at least on the surface, so all of this is actually fake. And still I spend my days looking at pictures of old aquintances or collegues, their friends and families and imagining that their life is picture perfect. And they look like they are. Well, like mine actually - at least virtually!

But I would not want people to stop blogging all together- it is through all these random blogs that I see on mbl.is (the ultimate icelandic newssource) that I have gotten a feeling of the overall feeling of discontent and anger in the icelandic society. And when you are far away its often the only way of feeling connected. Blogs on the French newspaper Liberation have also been put higher and higher in the news hiarchy. And they often illustrate the right picture of the story. Blogs are the new eyes of the soul. I just wish more people I care about would blog so I could know more about what they are thinking.

P.s Please let me know if you have a blog so I can add it to my links... I just updated them, half of them were not active anymore and had not been for a while.

Publié par Kolka à 15:55:22 dans Miss Kolka | Commentaires (2) | Permaliens

19-11-2008 11:49

De Kolka Sujet: rétt er það
Já ég verð að segja að það er afturför - en hvar á maður svo sem að finna tímann til að hangaá fésbók OG skrifa blogg? Það eru einfaldlega ekki nógu margar klst í sólarhringnum!

18-11-2008 16:00

De gulli bein Sujet: þetta er satt. Url: [Liens]
einu sinni bloggaði ég reglulega. nú læt ég mér nægja að pota öðru hvoru í vini mína á feisbúkkinu.. sem er augljóslega afturför