I've got too many blogs in my reader, I can't add any more, I'm full up, to the brink! I need to cull. This is a problem. Every now and again I go through my reader and cut anyone who hasn't posted for more than 2 months, I figure (rightly or wrongly), that they have lost interest in their blog so why should I spare interest and reader space on them. Also I will go through and cut blogs that I know I never read, usually these are crafting blogs that I followed on a whim and a pretty picture. But I am still 10 blogs too many, there are a few blogs that I kinda want to cut but feel if I do so they could work out it was me and they'd take it personally, and they'd be right. It is personal. Sometimes I read stuff on other people's blogs that makes me, at the very least, raise my eyebrows so high that they disappear into my hairline, some just make me very angry.
The ones that are candidates for me to cull are the ones who have commit the following sins...
1. Egotism, especially when it's seriously misplaced. The first out of the traps to advocate being voted for the MADS, and even for blogging events that you don't actually qualify for.... To slag off the Tots 100 list when they aren't in it but write a arselicking post about it when you are..... sorry but you're gone from my reader!
2. Ungratefulness - slagging off your secret post parcel just isn't on, no matter how nicely you worded it, and then to drop out of the Secret Post Club because you feel 'soured' by it? Whoa there... how about I just effing delete you right now...3. Your blog is over political or religious and actually I don't agree with you. To be fair a much lesser crime than the 2 previous, but horses for courses and all that.
And so to twitter...
I reckon in the 8 months or so that I have been actively using twitter I must have blocked well over a 1000 people, from porn to spam to just obvious random people collectors. I am choosy, if you don't follow back I'll block you as well, hello ... I am not here to make up your numbers, if I'm not worthy of speaking to then I don't wanna listen, if you get my drift. However when I do choose to follow someone then it's incredibly rare that I will unfollow, I can only think of 3 people off the top of my head that I have unfollowed, and 2 of those were guilty of number 3 above.
But, (well there was always going to be a but...) there are people who bug the hell out of me, blogging is not so bad, because if a blogger bugs me I can choose to not read their posts, but on twitter it's there in my timeline and it annoys me. Should I just block them or just let it go? It's a real life situation based in the virtual world. In real life your days are filled with people that you don't really like, from friends of friends, neighbours, work colleagues, God even family in some cases, mostly we just bite our tongues and grin and bear them so as not to rock the boat, is the online world the same? Do we ignore those we feel we dislike, skim over their tweets and never comment on their blogs or do we just be brave and terminate them from our systems?
All this leads me to ask the question ... How can anonymous people rile me so much?
