BLOGGING IS DYING
...I think. I am writing less, and people are visiting less. Have you noticed this on your own site? I could be wrong, but it seems like the blogging community as a whole is slowing down. Trendy things come and go and blogger is probably going to face the same fate as trucker hats and turned-up collars. My schedule is not what it was when I first started blogging and so maybe because I spend less time in blogging it seems to be on the decline. So I could be wrong. But if I am right here is what I'll blame: Teenage pop culture.

There was a time when blogging was not so common. Where blogs didn't read like diaries and nobody cared what music played in the background because you'd come to read, comment, and dialogue. Stay in touch? Of course, but it was more than that. Soon all the teens got ahold of it and a fairly respectable medium of communication and discussion became a free-for-all in posting crap and commenting with even more (annonymous) crap. Soon the spam advertising and flaming came in. Posting actual intelligable things became too much work. The teens didn't want that. They wanted a way to post pictures, share music, lie about books they aren't reading, and flirt.

Myspace comes into the picture. Go to someone's myspace and you'll find it full of nonsense. Some use it to organize drinking parties. Some (guys usually) seem to use it to display their long list of "friends" as a kind of pretty people trophy case. There are a choice few that I visit and it is mostly a place for people to leave each other notes about how cool the other person is and also to flirt. Nobody is being thoughtful, so myspace's days are as numbered.

Once I created a myspace account and fabricated the entire profile. I got a picture of a guy with his shirt off who'd obviously spent a good deal of time in the gym. Cropped off his head, put up a description of his living/working/social conditions, and in a matter of 30 min I had my very own parody of the guy who thinks myspace is a good way to meet and flaunt "chicks." Within a days, I had a few emails from random girls who actually thought I seemed like a nice person and thought it would be cool to be friends. I can't tell you how egotistical and stereotypical I made my profile sound. My goal was to copy the dumb jock/partier without sounding fake. It worked. I deleted the account within 2 weeks. What a joke.

So if you are reading this (and care) I'd like to call you back to the notion that we blog because we in fact feel as though we have something important to say...both to ourselves and to the ones around us. There are a few of you I haven't visited in awhile. I'll see you on your blog soon enough. --Tyler