Why 'Snarky Blogging' Just Doesn't Cut It Anymore

It happens.

We get worked up over something that we would like to read more about, and then after searching on Google, you come across a blog that keys into your emotion, and feeds you your satisfaction. It makes you feel like saying, 'Yeah! You tell 'em! That'll show'em!', and then you close the blog...and the moment hits you:

'What good...did reading that blog do for me?'

Blogging has been around a long while now, and as trends change, I am starting to see how snarky blogging just doesn't cut it anymore. Perhaps a barometer I use for when a trend has become a thing of the past is when I see it made fun of on comedy shows, like the recent Angie Tempura skit from SNL, and it is done so well, that you laugh really hard and think, 'Yeah. Why do I read that nonsense?'.

The truth is basically this...Anyone can call themselves an 'expert' on something. Perhaps, the more 'snarkier' the expert, the less helpful and truthful, the blogger.

Why? Blogs are emotional and because a long time ago, when human beings first learned to read, they did so with the expectation that in doing so, they would enrich their minds with new knowledge, and perhaps wake tomorrow to use it to make a better world.

Snarky blogging does just the opposite. It is like reading the comics. You look for every 'crash!' 'pow!' 'thwip!' you can find, and then you close the webpage, only learning a bunch of new jokes from how someone else was emotionally feeling about something at that time. Blogging of this type completely succumbs to the ideal of 'instant gratification', as in, 'If I blog about it, I will change the world around me.' Not true. Why? Most blogs are self-serving.

If you think about it, Thomas Paine wrote 'The Crisis' to help an entire country. Blogs seek to only promote 'the blog & the blogger' or the company related to it. 'Times' change through positive & proactive behavior, not the 20 minutes it took to upload a photo-shopped image, and write whatever emotionally touched you at the time, only to stand back and count how many hits it received.

Perhaps, this is why I have not blogged in a while. I feel if you have nothing helpful to say, you only make yourself look helpless, especially if your writing is more 'childlike' in emotion, instead of 'mature in logic'.

Most of the blogs I see today are worthless and written by people with no knowledge, only emotionally charged opinions. I understand people have the right to free speech, yet, people have the right to make up their own minds, and after a while all the yelling and tomato-throwing that gets done on blogs...

...pretty much gets ignored like the guy ejected from the crowded theatre for talking too much.

So, are you writing about 'times that try men's souls'...or just throwing tomatoes to sell a blog?

I will be back when I have something more useful for everyone.