.. I don’t really think there’s a good way to say what I want to say in this post without coming off sounding self righteous or judgmental or condemning or intolerant.
None of those are true about me as a person.. or about this post.
Like I said.. there isn’t any other way of saying what I’m thinking so let the hate mail commence, I guess.
Back in July, I came across a new blog written by a young woman. I found her, like I do most blogs, when she left a comment and I trailed back to leave her one.
I liked what I read.. she was a little quirky and left of center for a new attorney and so I checked back often and left comments.
I remember what it was like being a new blogger and trying to get people to read and comment.. checking stats.. etc etc etc so I did what I could to be a good “bl-end” (blog friend) to help her out.
But days go on and her blog kind of fell by my wayside.. Life kind of gets in the way of doing what you want to do, you know?
Anyway.. tonight on my dashboard, I saw that someone had traveled over here from there and was like, “…Oh! Wow! I haven’t read that blog in AGES!!” So I hop on over and boy.. was I in for surprise!
Because everything this young woman is posting now is raunchy and vulgar and so the polar opposite of what she used to write… and it’s a little more then obvious that she’s stat-obsessed and according to the figures she constantly posts, it seems she found the secret to climbing up the blog charts.
And it made me feel sad.. or disappointed..
Listen.. I don’t care what any one blogs about. It’s there choice and the last thing I’m about is censorship. If I come across a blog that I don’t like, I just keep on going. My opinion doesn’t matter and so I don’t leave it. Everyone has their own gig.. their own niche.. their own way of expressing themselves.. and kudos to them
That’s not what this is about..
Maybe that is the person she is.. maybe her early posts were just about getting her feet wet or finding her place or getting comfortable with writing.. who knows.
All I know is that for some crazy reason, the change bothered me.