On blog pollution
Yesterday I was reading the profile of a woman who posts on a message board I read regularly. I noticed her link for "homepage" was her live journal. Curious to find out more about her, I eagerly clicked the link. It is relevant for me to add that this woman is 34. Not 14.
Oh. My. God. That blog is the epitome of what I desperately want to avoid. Furthermore, it is the epitome of what I wouldn't want ANY blog to be like, should the blog world be under my command. I would outlaw such a thing, threaten with immediate deletion and spam their email with ridiculous heart-breaking chain letters! Let them cry for the loss of little Suzie as I have cried from seeing their polluted blog! The disease is highly contagious and spreads quickly. It's all over message boards already.
Is the suspence killing you yet? Do I have your full attention? Because this is very important. I want you to remember what I am about to say.
Internet quizzes are the Devil.
In all fairness, internet quizzes as a whole are merely stupid. The ones that I refer to in this post are the ones that tempt you with a pre-made bit of html code that you can conveniently cut and paste into a message board post and, unfortunately, into a blog entry as well. There's nothing wrong with doing a stupid quiz now and then. It's relaxing. It's fun. And shameful. But no one has to know, right? Wrong. It looks like some people really want you to know. Badly. The particular journal that inspired this humanitarian post consists of html-ized quiz results and... nothing else. Post after post after stupid post. As if you could piece together the personality of this person by reading:
"You are 16% abnormal!"
"The movie of your life is a cult classic"
"Curvy and naughty!"
"Your element guard is Boreas"
(These are real examples taken from said journal)
What the hell does that mean? Element guard? 16% abnormal, is that like 74% pregnant? The Devil I tell you! Don't be lazy. If you want to share things about yourself, find the words to express them. There are about half a million of them in a good English dictionary. That's a lot more than there are quizzes and they'll serve your purpose much more adequately.
Stop the blog pollution! Get rid of the quizzes!
Oh. My. God. That blog is the epitome of what I desperately want to avoid. Furthermore, it is the epitome of what I wouldn't want ANY blog to be like, should the blog world be under my command. I would outlaw such a thing, threaten with immediate deletion and spam their email with ridiculous heart-breaking chain letters! Let them cry for the loss of little Suzie as I have cried from seeing their polluted blog! The disease is highly contagious and spreads quickly. It's all over message boards already.
Is the suspence killing you yet? Do I have your full attention? Because this is very important. I want you to remember what I am about to say.
Internet quizzes are the Devil.
In all fairness, internet quizzes as a whole are merely stupid. The ones that I refer to in this post are the ones that tempt you with a pre-made bit of html code that you can conveniently cut and paste into a message board post and, unfortunately, into a blog entry as well. There's nothing wrong with doing a stupid quiz now and then. It's relaxing. It's fun. And shameful. But no one has to know, right? Wrong. It looks like some people really want you to know. Badly. The particular journal that inspired this humanitarian post consists of html-ized quiz results and... nothing else. Post after post after stupid post. As if you could piece together the personality of this person by reading:
"You are 16% abnormal!"
"The movie of your life is a cult classic"
"Curvy and naughty!"
"Your element guard is Boreas"
(These are real examples taken from said journal)
What the hell does that mean? Element guard? 16% abnormal, is that like 74% pregnant? The Devil I tell you! Don't be lazy. If you want to share things about yourself, find the words to express them. There are about half a million of them in a good English dictionary. That's a lot more than there are quizzes and they'll serve your purpose much more adequately.
Stop the blog pollution! Get rid of the quizzes!
posted by Nathalie at 1:05 PM
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