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Originally Posted by Hitch
WHY?
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I literally do not get it. Who is so silly to think that their untrained, mostly untalented ramblings have any value at all? The Bloggharea that affects the Net is half of what's ruined it.
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Oh, yes; there's a lot of crap on the internet.
There are two kinds of blog/vlogs however: the informative ones, and the 'give me attention' ones.
The former are, for example:
- The Digital Reader by our own Nate (Do I have that correct?)
- Blogs where people post progress on piano playing (what pieces they practiced, why, what went well, what went wrong)
- Blogs where people post reviews, cook receipts, and so on
These people make those blogs because they've got stuff to say that might be useful to someone. I don't mind if people earn something through advertisemtns or maybe even affiliate links, because I get useful information out of those blogs. Still, I mostly don't follow them, but find them through Google when I'm looking for something and read a part of it.
The attention grabbing ones are people who think they're worth it to be followed even though they don't say anything useful (they're not), or vlogs on YouTube where people do stupid/unnecessary/dangerous/hilarious-that's-not-hilarious crap just for the views and advertisement income.