Irrelevance

Okay, so another rant on how I feel like I don’t belong in the blogosphere. In the article for our JN229 class, ‘Blogging the Nihilist Impulse,’ I read that, “A weblog or blog is commonly defined as a frequently updated Web based chronological publication of a log of personal thoughts and Web links a mixture of diary forms around what is happening in a person’s life and reports comments on what is happening on the Web and the world out there.” I don’t really care for a chronological diary based record of what is going on in someone’s life. That is why I am also not a big fan of the infamous Twitter. Thank God for the 140 character limit because I’m not interested on what a person is thinking about eating for dinner, or when they are going to visit their boyfriend or Girlfriend.
It’s great that this blogosphere phenomenon is allowing people that feel alienated from the rest of society a voice, but to me everyone has their own opinion and stand on a situation… I feel like today no one can really come to a general consensus. When I connect to other people’s blogs all I read is their own opinion on a topic and how everyone else that reads that particular blog disagrees. It’s just one big squabble that often leads to no where. “If you can’t cope with high degrees of irrelevance blogs won’t be your cup of tea.” I’m just sick and tired of reading blogs where people’s perspectives and blog posts on critical world issues do not make any sense or don’t provide a clear justifiable argument. People today are all over the place with their thoughts and it’s because they turn to a non credible source to get the facts.
I came to University with the intent to graduate with a Journalism degree so I wouldn’t have to resort to blogging to get my word out there. I actually want my work to be a reliable source for people to turn to. I want my work to be published in a legitimate newspaper or broadcasted on TV. Call me narcissistic… I just don’t like being apart of the blogosphere when I feel like its one big sea of non-credible information … the information irrelevant to me.