An observation - posting about street art, or Hackney, or London town, or books, or tv programmes, or food, politics, ethics, baby pandas, shoes, photography, or any other old shit, sends the stats into a flatlining coma.
Posting about your love life or sex life, however vague or mild, perks them right up again. People arrive from all over, mysteriously.* You all are terrible shameless gossips.
Isn't that amazing? That gossip about people you don't know, and will never meet, holds an attraction... Everyone wants to put in their two cents. This leads to a dilemma, the more self-revelatory you are, the more addictive is your blog, but maybe you didn't mean to reveal all. You told all your secrets to strangers to keep their interest and now you feel ashamed.
Out there in real life it barely makes an impact, the thing you were anxious about posting or regretted ever publishing has made no ripples at all, (even the Girl With A One Track Mind got over being outed so publicly all over the media, good luck to her.) But once you put it out there, you can't ever take it back. So it's a balancing act...
* This is true of personal blogs, ie not the proper business/music/technology/food blogs
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I think people just like to know there are people out there as screwed us as they are.
it's just that you interest me more than street art, Hackney, London town, books, tv programmes, food, politics, ethics, baby pandas, shoes, photography, indeed most other old shit.
My eyes skipped over this post, and I misread "vague" as "vagina". I think that says everything you need to know.
I agree with Rosie, the personal is always better and we are all voyeuristic nosy parkers!! Come on more inner thoughts and men conundrums please!!!
Hi Lottie. Yes, definitely one of the voyeuristic pleasures of blogging...
Rosie, aw, that's sweet. I don't generally have too much gossip though, don't get out much you know.
Del - well, EXACTLY.
Em, you know me ducky, and are privy to stuff that doesn't get posted, you can always talk to me - especially in September, hurray!
hmm....i like that
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