Virtual Exhibitionists Please Explain
Published January 03, 2004
I entered the Blogopshere quite by accident some 30 days ago and have since become perplexed beyond recognition. I was a blogger and didn't know it back in the seventies & eighties, using the Bell System. I maintained an answering machine that logged my ramblings and doled out wisdom freely. Last year I became acquainted with the web and created a website that dispersed sound files of previous Blurbs as well as new ones.
I went to Typepad because I was tired of sound files and thought I would get into Text pontificating, but since having made the switch, I have done more point & shoot type of blogging and little of the preaching. Part of the reason for this is the brand of Electronic Exhibitionist rambling I have witnessed since arriving in the Blogosphere. Which brings me to my Point...
What's up with all this Unabashed Shameless Posturing in Public?
What didn't your Mama do, that calls on you, to bare it all in Public?
I've shaked my ass a little
But you guys! Holy Moly
I know more about you than I really feel safe knowing
The lack of decorum
Is quite disturbing
And yet I continue to be involved.
I must admit there is a realism to your displays
And as such a kind of tiltilation
To hear of this intimacy or that
But doesn't your mate complain?
Or your peeps or Ma or Dad
What do they say to this unabashed lack of privacy?
I am not judging
Just asking for an explanation
on how this is evolved and where it is going.
Call me Curious Zudfunck
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- Published: January 03, 2004
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Zud, in regard to real exhibitionism in the blogosphere, hits on a blog go up if the blogger posts photos of nekkid or almost nekkid chicks. Several bloggers, including Oliver Willis, owe a significant portion of their popularity to doing just that. So, of course other people are going to imitate the trend.
In regard to personal blogging or passive exhibitionism, a little of it goes a long way with me. I really don't care that John Jones' cat died, or Jane Doe's herpes has flared up again. Now, if there were a rash of cat deaths, suggesting poisoning or disease, that would interest me because it then becomes newsworthy. Same for herpes. If a new strain is discovered, I want to know about it. But, purely personal blogging often is plain old navel gazing.
Zud, you are the Candide of the blogosphere. If you mean flat-out exhibitionism, that has always existed, it's just much easier to spread yourself via the Internet than running around flashing the neighbors.
As far as self-revelatory writing: there are as many styles of blogs as there are bloggers, but one of the most common is simply an electronic journal. Again, nothing new there, it's just now potentially millons of people can read your journal. AS MD says, alittle goes a long way, but the micro can reveal much about the macro if done well - it's a matter of taste, ultimately, like everything else.
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Come on Now, I spent a lot of time on this one...Z