Blogs!

Alright, my interest for blogs is rising for each day. I was doubtful to the concept over all at first, but now I find (some) blogs to be much more interesting than most books. Especially blogs that have a certain orientation, as for example one where you can follow a persons travels or someone with a sick kid and so on.

Also, for me as a writer it's quite satisfying to be able to post whatever I want without anybody else touching or having opinions about my text.

Therefore I'm asking you: Do you have a personal blog? What do you write about? Contribute with links in the comments. Maybe you're (just like me) writing in some other language, but Google Translate often provides understandable translations. We'll see how it works out.

I try to write down my thoughts at www.antonahlstrom.com , have a look if you want to.

Go!

I read all kinds and a lot of blogd.
They can be about everything: Cooking/Food, Travels, Aupair/Exchange, life in general, fashion blog/trends.
So I don't have a certain direction. What ever sounds good I read, having my favourite blogs I read daily/regulary,

I have been wrting a blog since 2010, or even longer.
I closed my old blog last year and started a new one as I felt it was time for a change. I was posting very regulary, but I became a bit lazy and I don't have a lot to tell, as I am mostely studying anyway
But who's interested in whatever bulls***: srslyawesome.blogspot.fi/

I think its fun to read those pinkblonde 16 year old fashingirls, cause they're so tragic. But I also like to read "real" blogs. I read most topics, music, horses, peoples stories (like people with a sicness, and that kind), some fashion-kinda blogs, and people I know. I dont have any regular blogs I read everyday, but there is a couple I jump into from time to time.
I kinda have one. But its together with three friends, and we blog about totally stupid stuff. So its not intelligent at all, therefore I wont share it I have also have a horse-blog, but thats not active at all, and probably not interesting for any of you xD

Sheila wrote: I think its fun to read those pinkblonde 16 year old fashingirls, cause they're so tragic.

Hahahah! True!
I read other fashion blogs. One of my faves is Mashas: www.masha-sedgwick.net/
Loving her style and collect a lot of inspiration by her

Fhina wrote:

Sheila wrote: I think its fun to read those pinkblonde 16 year old fashingirls, cause they're so tragic.

Hahahah! True!
I read other fashion blogs. One of my faves is Mashas: www.masha-sedgwick.net/
Loving her style and collect a lot of inspiration by her

She actually looked cool. Too bad I dont understand a thing of what she writes xD tcmn.blogg.no/ sophieelise.blogg.no/ these are some of norways biggest bloggerst, terrible haha xD

Masha also translates into English! Scroll down
She's one og my absolute fashion idols, if you can call it like that. She really has a cool attitude!

mrs v. viper wrote: I prefer books. because I like to hold something in my hands, the smell, everything. if I DO read blogs, it's usually artists blogs, so it's mainly pictures

mrs v. viper wrote: but I can't for the life of me write in german. it doesn't work. I don't know why, [...]

Same here both times.

Sheila wrote: I think its fun to read those pinkblonde 16 year old fashingirls, cause they're so tragic.

How come you think they're tragic?

izzie wrote:

Sheila wrote: I think its fun to read those pinkblonde 16 year old fashingirls, cause they're so tragic.

How come you think they're tragic?

Some of their statements can talk for themselves. One of them once said something about that she was gonna be president one day (yeah, innnorway. Don't know what she was gonna do with the royal family), and make everything pink. The worst part, I think she was serious. And lots of stuff like that. And they seem so fake (im sure that on some of those blogs, 75% of the posts is about hair extensions), they kinda reminds me of barbies.

Of course there are a lot of... shit on these blogs if you look at it that way, but I think it's rather interesting to get a path into their heads and lives because it seems that I am so different from them. For me it's quite admirable that that is the only thing that are going on in their heads. Of course they have dark thoughts and wonderings circulating in their heads aswell, as anybody does, and it is when this comes to the surface through their texts (although it may be "covered" in other words) it gets really interesting for me, how people take on a problem and plans to solve it.

Fhina wrote: I read other fashion blogs. One of my faves is Mashas: www.masha-sedgwick.net/
Loving her style and collect a lot of inspiration by her

hey nice this is one of the few I really follow. I agree with you

Just thought this was worth posting here.
Some quotes from one of Swedens biggest bloggers (or the biggest, idk):

“Mycket klagade var det också över pengar, hur lite man har. Det hör jag aldrig bland mina vänner”

"Alot of complaining about money, how little one has. I never hear that amongst my friends"

---

“Egentligen tycker jag att om de har begått ett brott som i de flesta fall görs av vuxna ska de få samma straff som om de hade varit vuxna.”

"I think that if they've comitted a crime that in most cases is done by adults, they should get the same sentence as adults gets."

---

“Päls har i alla århundraden använts för att värma människor när det är kallt. Varför ska vi sluta upp med det nu?
Det är som att säga att vi ska sluta äta kött för att man kan leva på bönor.”

"Fur has always been used to give warmth to people when it's cold. Why should we suddenly stop using it?
It's like saying that we should stop eating meat because you can live on beans."

---

“folket som röstar blått är antaligen mer pålästa”

"people who vote "right wing" is probably more educated"

---

“Ni lär ju inte svälta i detta bidragsland men det är orättvist mot barnet att få växa upp i en sån familj där man får vända på varenda liten krona.”

"You most likely won't starve in this welfare country but it's unfair for the child to have to grow up in a family that has to turn their pockets inside out to get by."

---

This was just a few. Don't worry, she and many other sucessful swedish bloggers have more of these...

This was taken from metrobloggen.se/skvallerbitchen and then translated by me.

The blogs I follow are mostly bandblogs, also the blogs of some of my closest friends.

I actually do have a blog..
I mainly post things that's on my mind and shows I've been too and such things.
I'm not always active on a daily or weekly basis, I simply update whenever I feel like it.

Here's a link: www.threshold.webblogg.se

Whenever you tell a story, may it be in a blog or may it be person to person, you pick out the most colourful parts to make it more interesting, and often you also spice these "tops" up a bit to strengthen the story. It's a natural thing: (Almost) everyone does it, even if it's not intended.

As in the example above, there is almost a character that the writer is playing. Or maybe in this case it actually is. Peoples emotions are woken by it, and that is the point, isn't it? Therefore it's the correct behavior to me. You are able to put in whatever you want into the story you are telling, and that is to me the beatuy of it.


Also, I tend to find blogs more interesting than novels these days. When I read a book, I often feel that I want to skip a whole lot of pages to get to the "core" of the story. A blogger are much more able to tell the story straight to you, if you get what I mean.

mrs v. viper wrote:

Kraljosovina wrote: Just thought this was worth posting here.
Some quotes from one of Swedens biggest bloggers (or the biggest, idk):
....

if this should be a critique on blogs, then thats a bit.. idk.

Well it's of course not critique to blogs or bloggin, I love that anyone can share and make their voice heard through this medium.
It's critique mostly directed to the people. Like you said, they are big because of the people and I simply brought up that I wanna punch the non thinking people in their face. And of course it was critique against those big bloggers who spread stupidity and help making the world a worse place to live in. And I just felt I needed to bring that shit up, because I'm rather fucking tired of it. That's all.

But are they really "non thinking"? Their idea to provocate is by far not original, but it sure seems to work as a tool to reach their goal: to get a whole lot of readers. If she's (in your example) serious it's of course alarming, but from the quite advanced language and imagery she's using I seriously doubt that.

izzie wrote: But are they really "non thinking"? Their idea to provocate is by far not original, but it sure seems to work as a tool to reach their goal: to get a whole lot of readers. If she's (in your example) serious it's of course alarming, but from the quite advanced language and imagery she's using I seriously doubt that.

Well you don't need to think much at all to know that that kind of posting gets readers. I seriously doubt she's anything but serious, unfortunately.

Yeah well if that's your interpretation I guess I can't change it hehe

I guess. The problem is that if even if she wasn't "serious", the readers take it serious and she knows it. And if she was joking that probably would mean that what she is saying is against here beliefs. So that would be damn right stupid, even more so then what she is doing now.

It's just totally unbelievable that she has faked it all the way through without any of her likeminded friends or fans noticing.

Not everyone has making the world a better place as a goal, I'm afraid.

I KNEW IT!