So, yesterday I was at a business networking luncheon where the guest speaker was a woman who “specializes” in website development and Internet marketing. Yesterday’s discussion was all about Internet marketing, but when asked about blogging, she made a comment that struck a nerve with me. She basically said, and I’m paraphrasing here, that the only good blogs are those used by businesses, and that personal blogs are the domain of perverts and child molesters.
My husband has a personal blog that he used to keep in contact with his friends and family while in Iraq. A friend of ours has a personal blog to discuss current events and politics. And here I am, starting a blog of my own. I’m pretty darn sure that none of us fit into her idea of what a personal blog is all about! Pfft, I say.
So, what’s up with that kind of attitude (from an alleged professional, nonetheless) about blogging anyway? Do we not live in America where we have the right to free speech, and isn’t a blog a wonderful way to foster the free exchange of thoughts and ideas?
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There are a lot of idiots out there and it makes you wonder how they stay in business, making comments like that in a public forum.
Glad to see you are starting this. You always have interesting perspectives.
This is largely a right wing republican meme. It is in opposition to the left-wing bloggers who had a hand in handing Obama the presidency and exposing the bankruptcy of the “conservatives religious right”. Blogs, in my opinion, represent one of the first real examples of a free press since folks like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine printed political tracts and handed them out on street corners.
It is precisely its lack of business association and obligation that makes it a free press. This worries power, who have co-opted the mainstream media.
Oh yeah, Welcome To Blogging you pervert!
I can’t believe that women thinks she’s in web development and marketing with that kind of ignorance.
And I can’t speak for the world, but none of the bloggers I know are perverted child molesters, well so far anyway
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