Top 10 Reasons Why Blogging is Like Attending a Top Liberal Arts College
Sunday, June 4th, 2006Ever take a welcome break off from reading/commenting/participating in blogs for a while, only to return and get this kind of annoying, sick feeling in your stomach?
I’ve had it happen several times. I finally put a finger on it — it’s the same feeling you get when you attend a top liberal arts school filled with a bunch of blowhards.
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Now, onto the reasons… why blogging is like attending a top liberal arts college:
- Everyone thinks they know more than the next person about whatever happens to be the subject
- No one’s afraid to speak their mind, even on subjects they really know very little about
- Traditionally taboo dinner-table conversation subjects that can lead to heated debate (such as Politics, Religion, etc) are not off limits
- In fact, taboo subjects are an encouraged topic. You’re supposed to be learning from one another, after all. But do you really? =)
- When someone gets a factoid wrong, there’s never a shortage of asswipes around who will correct you (*ahem* factcheck your ass, as they say these days)
- College: you brag about your SAT scores, until you realize it really doesn’t f’ing matter anymore. Blogs: you brag about your traffic, # of links, or amount of ad revenue your blog generates. (only, you keep doing so because you still think it matters)
- College: when confronted with someone who actually does know more than you, just throw out an amorphous concept like ‘post-modernism’, ‘deconstruction’ or ‘nihilism’ to pretend like you know what you’re talking about. Blogs: throw out a buzzword like Web 2.0, Ajax, User-Generated Content, RSS, Squidoo, Wikis, etc
- College: there was always some hot new party every weekend at a new location. Last week’s has already been forgotten. Blogs: there’s always some hot new story or meme making the rounds, quickly forgotten and tossed into the dustbin of Technorati
- You develop a huge network of ’semi-friends.’ People you kind of know and could say “What’s up?” to at a party or as you pass by in the virtual comment halls. Upon graduation (or abandoning a blog), you will never see or interact with any of these people again in your life.
- College: there was never a shortage of cheap beer. Blogs: there’s never a shortage of cheap, one-liner comments. “great post!”, “i agree. blogged at: …insert-reblog-post-url-here…“
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