| | Ok, is anyone else as annoyed as I am with fake bloggers? You know, the kind of people who advertise that their blog is the best because it gives you inside information on what an agent thinks and feels or promises to write daily for writers and then when you visit their sites all you see are links to other people's blogs or other websites?
Are we even adding original content to the internet anymore?
If I had wanted to learn about punctuation in dialogue I would have done a google search myself. It takes about 30 seconds so if someone blogs about it with links to the top five pages, they've saved me 30 seconds, but wasted my attention span to their blog.
I am especially frustrated with one particular example. Awhile back I heard a peculiar phrase "charismatic witchcraft". In an effort to find out what this contradictory term meant, I googled it. There are hundreds of pages claiming to give the answer to what it's about, but they all repeat the same text. Every single one out of the 14 pages I looked at had the same exact text pulled from whichever one was the original source. (I'm not even going to go into my annoyance with demon busters about their red and pink color scheme that grates on the eyes and the "no demons allowed" sign that smacks of hypersensitivity to these kinds of things.)
And while feedback is great and summarizing is awesome, do I really want to visit someone's blog only to be consistently redirected to other people's sites? I was on Nathan Bransford's blog (which I happen to like a lot) the other day and he had almost no original content in his post. One of the links on there led me to another blog that also had no original content. I read blogs because of the people behind them, not because I need another search engine.
And since I'm trying to make fun of myself by posting links to various places of interest, I will pose a question following the example of Mr. Bransford: You tell me, are blogs supposed to be mostly original content or are they supposed to be more like search engines? Is it annoying to see links to other pages or is it exciting and like an easter egg hunt?
Have fun everyone, and please, be original.
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