Publicity

So I've just spent the last few seconds (okay, the last few hours) browsing through a few (okay, about a hundred) blogs, trying to find one worth reading. Hopefully written by a similar sarcastic, creatively-deprived mind, like mine. But no.


If you're ever curious as to what type of people blog publicly, let me introduce you to the categories I've observed:

- There are the political/ religious or cult blogs (approximately 70%).

- In another language (10%).

- There are the blogs from an animals perspective - usually full of pictures of humiliated animals wearing ridiculous animal costumes or human clothes. These range from cute to downright freaky (I kid you not, there are people out there who write blogs on behalf of their beloved feline pets. Either that or they have freaky, ninja mutant cats and the only reason these cats haven't taken over the world yet is because they're too busy typing blogs). Around 5% of all blogs fall under this category.

- Family stuff that makes it ridiculously easy for burglars (e.g. posting pictures of their kids along with pictures of their house number and street name in the background, explaining in great detail about their plans to go on vacation from this date to this date and how they haven't found anyone to look over the house and are concerned about being robbed while they're away, oh and their spare key is under the frog-shaped flower pot in case anyone is wondering, etc.). Maybe these people think to themselves, "Who one Earth would read this blog? Let's have some fun and post heaps of private information online!". What they don't seem to consider is, what happens when someone - like a bored Asian teenager - does happen to stumble upon it? This is about 10% of the blogs.

On another semi-related note, why do parents feel the need to post pictures of their children all the time? Seriously, I ran across this one blog with "Believe me, It's a hard task to take pictures while giving medicine." and a picture of a crying baby or something. Err lady? Maybe give the medication, get off the computer and pay more attention to taking care of the child's sickness instead of running off to grab a camera? Or like, wait to take the picture till AFTER the medication is given? Just a suggestion.

- 'Educational' blogs (i.e. how to make a cupcake in the shape of a telephone - actually a really good read, I'll pass on the recipe if you wish). Approximately 2%.

- 1% are from Canadians. Or somewhere else snowy. Usually with heaps of photos of mundane objects like trees, blurry people and sticks.

- And the last 2% of blogs, I haven't actually looked through.

Basically, I may pretty much be the only human being on Earth who doesn't fit into those categories. Yay for me.