Sometimes I just don't understand the blogging world.
For starters, I love to make friends through blogging. In fact, I have made some of my coolest friends this way. Beverly, who is neat and has a cute baby and is also my same height which is nice. Mila, who is the same person as me. Katherine, who has been reading my blog since its very beginning, when it was full of teen angst. And Rizzio, who has also been reading for a while and who is really creative and probably my most artistic friend.
I met all of these people through blogging, and may not have become friends with them otherwise.
So, when I made the Friends IRL Facebook group, I was expecting to meet cool people who could possible be good friends. Like, I specifically only accepted requests to join from people in the area, not because I am a picky biotch, but because I want us to actually hang out. To be honest, I feel like no one wants to be friends. Not just in the Facebook group (although there are like, no bites on the things me and Katherine propose to do), but in the blogging world in general. I am totally fine with those who don't want to be friends. Like, 100% they are good people and deserve many a chocolate cakes. However, I just get so confused when those people talk like they want to be friends in real life. It makes me feel like they are just trying to grow their blog. I don't know, I could be wrong. But, that's just how I feel sometimes. I support people who try to grow their blog, but I definitely think there is a time and a place. Ads are a good place, blogger events are a good place, links at the ends of comments are a good place, but hijacking situations in which people want to make real friends? Not a good place. Sometimes I just hate how some bloggers use every single opportunity as a way to boost their pageviews and followers.
The reason why I hate this is because I LOVE BLOGGING. I have ever since I started when I was 16 years old. I didn't even discover the "big blogs" like The Rockstar Diaries/Love Taza until a year after I had been at it. I didn't even know you could make money blogging until like two-ish years ago. All of these things were new discoveries to me, but they were happy discoveries. Now, I'm discovering that some people just want to use each other to become "blog famous" or they just want to go out together so they can take pictures and document it. I'm all for documenting things, but when that's the only reason you're hanging out with a person/initiating contact I feel like there's a slight problem.
Anyways, now you know my feelings for today. In short, I just wish there weren't people with agendas who feel the need to climb over others to get there. Trying to be blog famous? Awesome. Buy an ad. I hope you get there, I really do. I mean who wouldn't want to be paid the big bucks to document their life and eat good food? But, please don't get me all excited that you want to be my friend in real life, only to drop me if I don't contribute in some way to your pageviews.
Thank you, and good night.
XOXO
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*This post is not aimed at anyone in particular.*
