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How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger

What a buzz all the bloggers are making these days! It seems like just about everybody is pouring their musings into a text box. Are you feeling tempted to start a blog of your own? Here are some ways to bypass the trend.

Steps

1. Find five completely random blogs, and read them daily for a month. After thirty days, you will absolutely dread your self-imposed requirement to read all that dreck. Any blog you create will most likely be on par with what you've been reading. Don't put anyone through that.

2. Consider that your voice, even if it is truly a good one, is a tiny peep against the massive wave of tripe out there. The odds of anyone you don't already know finding your blog are low.

3. Write on a regular basis in a text editor instead. If that doesn't satisfy your urge, and you feel that you must post your blog online, then you might just be craving attention and validation--which you'll never truly find in a blog. If you give up on your Wordpad journal after about three days, you'll do the same with a blog that just takes up server space.

4. Ask yourself if you really have the time to commit to a blog. What about that treehouse you wanted to build? Or the book you wanted to write? Or the car you wanted to fix up? Or the restaurant you wanted to take your significant other to? Or the new career you wanted to pursue? Instead of writing about pretty much nothing, or whining about all the things you wish you were doing instead, start doing something that'd actually be worth writing about. And if it's really worth writing about, you'll be having too much fun doing it to tear yourself away from it.

Tips

* Rest easy in the knowledge that it's perfectly okay and respectable to not have a blog at all. Not everyone is cut out to write things that are readable by everyone. The last thing you want to do is contribute more dreck to the universe.

* If attention and validation are what you're looking for, know that you will get neither from blogging. As above, very few people will ever know that your blog (or you, by proxy) exists. The remainder of comments posted to your blog will be sappy treacle, which you won't trust as being sincere anyway.

* Consider writing on a wiki instead. Unlike most blogs, wikis like Wikipedia and wikiHow are read by millions of people each month. Several wikiHow authors receive "fan mail" messages every day from appreciative readers. In addition, many authors discover that they enjoy the wiki collaborative writing process more than writing in solitude. This is a great way to obtain the attention and validation you are craving.

* If you plan to use a blog as a way of keeping in touch with a group of people, such as friends, family, or co-workers, then you may want to make sure it's inaccessible to the public (for the public's sake as well as yours). Using a message board instead of a blog can simplify matters and help keep it interactive.

* Try participating as a regular commentator to three to five blogs that you think highly of. This plan has the advantage of writing for the public along with not doing the publishing oneself.

* Try keeping a private journal on LiveJournal (or similar site that offers the private entries setting) instead of writing to the public, or friends. In the private journal, only you logged in as your username is able to view the journal entries.

Warnings

* The information you post on the Internet is likely to linger for years and years to come, as web pages are archived by "snapshot" services like the Wayback Machine. Once it's out there, you can't take it back. An employer running a Google search on your name years down the line might be turned off by your now documented obsession with your cat.

* Keep in mind that, unless you expressly make it otherwise, blogs are extremely public. This is not your secret diary that you write your innermost thoughts in because only you have the key and you wear it around your neck 24/7. If you have stuff that you don't want your mom, your best friend, your significant other, your secret crush, or your aforementioned cat to know, don't go blabbing it to complete strangers on the internet. You cannot assume that the people you don't want to see what you're saying won't somehow stumble across your blog and know all your dirty little secrets. If you must record these thoughts for posterity, do so offline.

* You may never know if you enjoy blogging unless you try it.

Found this at http://www.wikihow.com. Dunno if I should laugh or what. Haha.

10:37 PM

Changed my blog song! Sexy now eh? Haha..

Liverpool vs AC Milan soon!
I can't wait but somehow I have a real bad feeling.
Gattuso would probably mark Gerrard to hell if he has to. And Mascherano might be able to do the same to Kaka, if not he has Alonso to help him.

So why do I still have a bad feeling? Maybe cuz so much emphasis is put on Kaka that we forgot about Seedorf. I think this game would swing to Milan's favor cuz of this utterly under rated guy. The equation is simple.

Gerrard canceled out by Gattuso, Kaka canceled out by Mascherano (well not totally maybe) , Alonso matches Pirlo. Now who's there to keep Seedorf in check? Riise/Finnan maybe. Haha.

But perhaps we have a strong weapon in Crouch. Maldini and Nesta have probably not faced someone as queer as him in their whole footballing career despite the vast amount of experience between them. A striker 2+ meters tall is simply a different ball game altogether. Not only is he the perfect targetman to knock down the ball and aim your crosses to, he has a penchant for scoring spectacular goals. I would like to see what the pair of defenders would do to try to snuff him out.

All this speculating and stuff is driving me nuts! Too much Football Manager for me. Haha.. We'll just have to see come 23rd march! Which is like.. 2 more days?!

10:34 PM

Blades of Glory madness.

3 more days to the dream finals! Who wanna watch together please message me!

9:22 PM

11:20 PM

Sorry I haven't been updating, I know my fans out there just can't wait for my latest update right? Haha.

I just got a copy of football manager 2007, that should explain why the sudden disappearance. And it's sooooooo fun! Wow! Here's some screenshots of my game. I own man. No reloads, no 'using Chelsea to buy my useless player at 10mil' cheating. I totally own.

Anyone else play FM07? Got any real good players to recommend? I got a budget of 16mil.

Screenshots of my astute business acumen and talent spotting. HAHA!

Costil Benoit, V. Hleb, Eddie Johnson and Sherman Cardenas has proven to be really good bargain signings.

I'm becoming more and more like Arsene Wenger, maybe you guys should call me the professor. Haha!

miss cabbage was going down the hill. she starting feeling hot, so she started stripping. and at the end of the hill, she disappeared.

1:35 PM

Here's the highlight of the embarrassing embarrassing man u loss.
Condolences to Justin and all Man u fans out there. Haha.

1:19 PM

Come on Liverpool fans! We must rally and cheer Liverpool on!
23/05/07 will be the day of reckoning! Who wanna watch the match together? Haha.. Dress code will be of cuz RED! (:

When you walk through a storm
hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark.
At the end of a storm is a golden sky

And the sweet silver song of a lark.
Walk on through the wind,
Walk on through the rain,
Tho' your dreams be tossed and blown.

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone,
You'll never, ever walk alone.
Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart

And you'll never walk alone,
You'll never, ever walk alone.

12:59 AM

AC Milan crushed Manchester United 3-0 in their Champions League semi-final second leg at the San Siro to set up a repeat of the 2005 final against Liverpool. Trailing from the first leg Kaka, who scored both Milan's goals in the 3-2 loss at Old Trafford, opened the scoring and Alberto Gilardino and Clarence Seedorf capitalized on some laughable defending to secure a chance to revenge their defeat in Istanbul. -Soccernet

And as we wait for the highlights of the match from youtube lets look at the amazing win from 2 years ago. This grudge match is so gonna be good!

This video just makes my hair tingle at the prospect of meeting milan again! Ahhhh~
You'll never walk alone liverpool!

11:03 AM

Oh yes! Liverpool's on to the finals!
Now we just need AC Milan to thrash Man U to set us up for the finals we've all been waiting for! Liverpool vs AC Milan part 2! Haha

6:24 PM

Ahhh.. I'm super bored slacking at home all the time. So I've found something to do finally and nope, it's got nothing to do with the computer. Haha.

Like now since Sam Goh's bass is at my house and all, I've decided to learn how to play erotomania! Yeahhhhhhhhh.. It'll be so awesome if I can play that song and it'll also help me improve my skills too. Haha. Cool yeah? (:

2:57 PM

Another hard hitting sermon from Paul Washer on dating.
1 hour and 30 minutes worth, please do listen to it.

God bless you all

2:37 AM