re: #262 CuriousLurker

I took a tour of some of the stalker blogs yesterday (something I won’t make the mistake of doing again any time soon).

I don’t get the obsession. I mean, no offense—I enjoy LGF tremendously and there are a lot of interesting & knowledgeable people here—but at the end of the day it’s just a blog. If things here suddenly went in a direction I disliked or felt was unconstructive, I’d just leave and go on about my business. To do otherwise would mean that LGF had an inordinate amount importance in my life.

I guess I must be missing something.

All blogs are ‘just blogs’…I actually got pissed off at other people online once on Yahoo Chat in 1998 or 1999, and again once on Slate’s political forum around 2002. Both times I felt like crap for losing my cool, and after a couple of days off returned to realize that it wasn’t worth getting upset over. I haven’t been drawn in by others like that since, though I sometimes rant angrily about shit that pisses me off outside the blogosphere—BP’s oil spill, the Iraq war, octomom, and rain at 7,000 feet in January—beyond that, nada.

And as I said during some of the several internal meltdowns that I’ve witnessed among members at dKos, blogs are kind of organic in nature. Cliques form, people get attached to a way of thinking, and when that image gets shattered, people react.