A Quick Look at Blogger

Like I said last post, I didn't come to this blogging service by choice. I came due to a lousy computers class I attended. During this class, I had a lot of time to just sit around and browse blogs using the next blog link. And what I found amused me.

The way I see it, there are five main types of blogs on here. Artistic blogs, photography blogs, political blogs, religious blogs, and family blogs. These dominated the blogs I searched, and each one I found interesting.

The artistic blogs I saw were the most varied. I saw all sorts of arts and crafts blogs, with quilting and knitting being the dominants. As a result, whenever I'd come to an artistic blog, I'd be quick to react. If it was a painting blog, I'd read it. If it covered multiple arts, I'd read it. But if it was quilting or knitting or sewing, I'd skip it. Because almost all of those blogs are dull to read.

The photography blogs were my favorite. Being someone who likes to take photos, I learned a bit from these blogs. Sometimes I'd see a really beautiful photo and analyze it, and sometimes I'd browse an entire gallery for a while. The most intriguing ones were the portrait blogs, because they worked with something I didn't do myself.

The political blogs were fun. Being a rather political person myself, I enjoy bits of sheer stupidity from both sides, and this site gave me plenty. I'd become enraged from a naive liberal blog, then with one click would find a conservative blog that made the liberal look like a voice of reason. There was so much ideological nonsense in my browsing that it supplied me with an endless amount of amusement.

 The religious blogs were even more entertaining. Since my own views are somewhat nebulous, floating around agnosticism and Buddhism, the disproportionate amount of Christian blogs here brought endless amusement. Of course, the majority of them were from sensible people who were just talking about their love in Christ. But then there were the Fundie blogs! One, citing AiG, talked about how it was awful the situation in the third world, where people were dying due to lack of aid, but who cares about that, because they were dying without knowledge of Christ! Another talked endlessly about the rapture and its signs, citing Obama's election as the sign of the antichrist. Endless amounts of lulz.

Lastly there were the most numerous blogs, the family blogs. These blogs were the most common ones that I saw. All of them were quite personal, with some being near scrapbooks and others being summaries of daily life. Almost all of these blogs had one thing in common: They started around the birth of the first child. The reason for this is obvious, but even so, it was a little jarring to see how many of these blogs there were. After skipping over them at the start, I started reading into them, turning back time and watching the family shrink slowly, one child at a time. These blogs got my attention the most because there were so very many of them.

There are far more blog types than the ones here, like the traveling ones or the cooking ones, but these grabbed my eye the most. I like this service. These blogs have given me an endless amount of reading time, whereas on a site like tumblr I'd be overwhelmed by the show and underwhelmed by the substance. This service is balanced and entertaining. I'm glad to finally have my own blog on it.