What in the world is up with the world of blogs?  Blogs are meant to be this great new technology where people can share  their ideas and interests with others around the globe. As far as I'm  concerned the state of blogs is one of chaos, confusion, and  anti-interactivity. The other day I decided to do some research on the  Web and try to connect to some blog writers out there that interested  me. Let me tell you it was not an enjoyable task as I had envisioned. I  spent four painful hours surfing through around a thousand on-line  journals, and I found only a few that interested me. What are we doing  out there people?
First of all, just getting to a blog  can be a pain in the arse. For example, you type in the words  'Philosophy blogs' and a whole bunch of sites come up. Some are  conglomerate sites with thousands of journals, but the area you're  searching for may have only one blog in it! This is because they  separate the blogs into a million different categories, like 'love',  'lovers', 'lovable' etc. Why not have just a few main categories to  choose from?
The next problem is the content. People  with 'philosophical' blogs are having personal chats with their mates  about the local dance competition on Tuesday! Why not go to a chat room  if you just want to talk to your friends? Blogs are supposed to be a  personal viewpoint expressed to the whole Web community. Wouldn't you  actually like to meet more people like yourself? How is this going to  happen if you talk in strange uncommon slang and acronyms that you and  your friends can only understand? Please stick to the subject at hand,  and take it at least half seriously.
Another major  problem is the fact that you can find a really cool blog that sparks an  interest, but then find that the writer hasn't added an entry in over a  year! What's it doing on the Net? Have these people passed away? I  seriously doubt it, as there are so many blogs in this 'lost' state.  Having a blog is a responsibility; it's a shared diary for the whole  community. How can someone form a relationship if you only write in your  blog once a millennium?
Back to the subject of  content: These on-line journals are a real chance to communicate  regularly with others with similar views to yourself. We can learn a lot  from each other, as each human is an individual with special traits and  skills that only they have. So why do we see so many blogs just talking  about trivial nonsense like 'Who the coolest movie actor is.' Humanity  is an intelligent species evolving everyday towards a higher  consciousness. So where are all the thinkers out there, the people who  have taken us to the next levels of spirituality and scientific  exploration? I'd really like to hear what you've got to say, but all I  can find are philosophical beliefs on why died pink jeans express one's  true inner self.
The issue of making comments on  someone's blog is also a controversial one. Why have comments sections  if you're not going to reply to people who have expressed an interest in  what you've had to say? How is this community going to function if all  the conversation is one-way! Come on people, wake up and smell the  onions! Let's change the blogging community into the awesome structure  of shared knowledge that it was intended for. Please don't let it turn  into the small-talk world of chat rooms.
 
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