My beef with blogging

I started this blog not too long ago as a result of feeling depressed and alone and needing a place to just throw all my frustrations out there. I honestly didn't expect anyone to read it, and I'm still surprised that there are a few left who still read it even though I really suck at blogging. Half the time I forget, then my posts are rather random and scatterbrained and quite poorly written, and boring as all get out. I mean, who cares what I'm cleaning and organizing this week? Besides me? Anyone? Bueller? Yeah, I didn't think so. My photos never post in the right order because we refuse to pay for WiFi at our house and we refuse to buy a computer, so until the blogger app for android improves, the photos will continue to be out of order and always at the end of the post, unlike those awesome blogs where it's picture, words, picture of same thing at a different angle, rephrase the same words, etc. Those blogs are fun and exciting, this one ... Meh.

I've come to realize that this whole blogging thing is really a big fat popularity contest that each person fights with themselves. I know how it is, to log on to that blogger dashboard and see the line graph shooting up in to the sky. Quite exhilarating, I must admit. Then your blog gets around, somehow, and all of a sudden you have followers! Yay! Although these followers are completely random people who of course want you to return the favor even though reading their blog is like slow torture in a pot of boiling water for your eternal soul. You just aren't that interested in people's theological discourse on why it's HORRIBLE, WRONG, UN-CHRISTIAN, UN-AMERICAN!! to keep the Sabbath on Saturday. (Seriously, how do these people find my blog? This blog has almost nothing to do with my chosen religion.) So they unfollow you because you don't want to follow them. "Teacher, I'm not Jonny's friend anymore because he doesn't want to play marbles with me!"

For some bloggers, it's obvious that they really just write from their heart. Then there are those who are obviously making money from it (I'm not saying there's anything wrong with making a living from your blog ...) but who seem to have issues with sincerity and honesty. Their pages are filled with ads and sponsored posts and some of those are just really hard for me to read.

Anyway, I'm sure I offended someone or a lot of someone's with my bugaboos about blogging. But just so you know: If your blog content is boring, I'm not following you. If your blog content is full of sponsored posts and little else, I'm not following you. And no, I don't really care if you are following me or not, I'm still sticking to my convictions on this one. (By the way, as of now I have zero followers, and I'm totally okay with that.) I just am a little annoyed with the disingenuousness of the blog world right now. And now that I've gotten that off my chest, onward. As you were.