Foist

Wow, yet another blog site under my belt. I guess I'm addicted. Here I am, wasting away in front of the computer to publish more useless babble for a minuscule portion of the world to see. There are many different aims of a blog site, as I have see in my 3 years of observing them . . . let's break them down, shall we?

1. Story tellers: Now this one breaks into two categories

• The authors . . . blogging is a way for their fiction or non-fiction to be read by others. (with the sub-group of fan-fiction writers)
• Life-divulgers . . . these are the people that use their blog for maybe its first intended use, something to chronicle their lives and possibly share with others.

2. Community Creaters: There are also two categories

• True Community producers . . . these are the people who are honestly trying to create a group for those with similar interests. This provides for much of the community on the world-wide-web.
• Excluders . . . I love this group. These little darlings make communities just to shun others. Rigorous online hazing and ridiculous rules for exclusion keep these communities small and foul-tempered.

3. Urgent News Sharers: Well . . . I don't read many of these, but they are the people that have journalists shaking in their boots. Whether or not this fear is warranted or not is yet to be seen, but all the same, they are probably the most talked-about sect of bloggers.

4. Attention Whores: This group is seen most commonly on sites such as Xanga.com and Myspace.com. They seek picture comments, friends requests, blog comments, and just plain old profile comments like a fat kid seeks delicious chocolate cake.




I guarantee there are more groups out there that I have overlooked, and for that I am sorry . . . if you have any to add feel free to let me know. For now . . . I will resign to sleep in the bed I am sitting on and hope for a better tomorrow, today. Adios.