I like people watching--reading other peoples' blogs is just another way to people watch. When you watch people in public places you see how they behave, dress, interact, etc. On blogs, you "see" what people think, feel, believe, etc. It's just a more internal perspective.
missbhavens
· 3 years ago
I know that scrunched-up-face look. I get it all the time. Try mentioning that you capture moments of your life on video and post those too and see the additional befuddled looks.
Yes--it is like people watching from the comfort of your home. That's why I read and watch...but why do I actually post?? Gee...I'm not really sure.
I like writing. I like filming. I like editing. I don't keep a journal anymore. I don't have much to hide.
I guess I'm just a compulsive documenter...where else BUT the internet could I put it all??
laurie
· 3 years ago
I like to write stories. My blog is more about life stories (with a little hyperbole). I like rereading my own stories once I write them. Bloggers are most definitely narcissists and/or exhibitionists to some degree and that is quite alright!
We are also voyeurs. We peer into the lives of people we don't know hearing stories and seeing sides of them they may not share with anyone outside their blog.
I love reading an entertaining writerwho makes me laugh and makes me think. I also love checking out the blogs of others who read the blogs I read. Some of us are seriously weird monkeys and I always find that fascinating.
It's true, Stolie, we get involved with our readers and involved with the people we read. I share things in blog comments and stories I wouldn't tell a stranger. Bloggers tend to be forthright with each other.
Your post captures the essence of us all I believe.
ABBEY
· 3 years ago
My blogging beginnings were sort of a divine intervention. I always thought it was for computer science geeks, but for a few months before my blog, these funny takes on situations just kept popping up in my head and there was really no where to put them.
Also I'm applying to medical school presently which provides me all kinds of material to tell my readers. I'm also hoping my story will touch somebody somewhere. The blog is supposed to cover only my 1 yr application to medical school but as the months go by, i'm beginning to think it will cover more.
So there you go, one of your lurkers has come out the closet
Kris to the Tee
· 3 years ago
I was going to write a beautiful *really it would have been* post about growing and evolving and sharing and then I said NAH!!
The real reason is I'm nosy and narcissistic and this has become my guilty pleasure.
Smooches.
Mitch
· 3 years ago
Ah yes, protocol again ;)
I started my blog initially to track my travels through Australia and Indonesia. And it worked well for that.
Then, I returned to Vancouver and liked the writing - it was sort of "doogie houser'ish" in terms of writing thoughts, ideas, etc. And so I keep going.
I like reading the blogs that I've linked because I like hearing what's going on in their lives, knowing full-well that what I see is a snapshop, just like what I show is just the tip of the proverbial ice-berg.
At the end, I'm just hoping NOT to go Titanic.
Take care.
Nerd Girl
· 3 years ago
I blog because I'm too damn lazy to keep a hand-written journal. And believe me, I've tried.
I blog because I like to talk. A lot. Maybe too much. And I very much write the way I talk. So, blogging is a way for me to be "heard." Whether by a few, by many, or some days, none.
I like reading blogs because I'm nosy. Because I can escape into other people's lives and see what's happening "out there." And of course, so I can live vicariously through you and Sid!
E
· 3 years ago
I started my blog after machristy suggested it. I'm still kind of a newbie (see I'm too tired to figure out how to link her site here) but I do try to write interesting things. I tend to be extremely private so I walk that fine line all the time about what to write and what not to write.
I love reading your blog and others that I've bookmarked because it is like goldenleo said - people watching - only with words instead of the actual pictures and Stollie my dear you are the Picasso of Words.
Have a beautiful!
JohnJEnright
· 3 years ago
As for me, I just like the taste of houseplants.
Firefly
· 3 years ago
Blogs are amazing, so many different takes on life. Fact somehow always beats fiction, given what you find when browsing through blogs. Me, I'm a professed extrovert, so I guess my interest in blogging was no surprise. It's just great fun, and people's creativity baffles me time and again. Thank God for the www :)
stolie | The Funky Brown Chick
· 3 years ago
Goldenleo: That's a good one!! It *is* kind of like people-watching isn't it?
missbhavens: I *LOVE* your videoposts. The one about your crazy-ass neighbor is my favorite.
laurie: Voyeur? Moi?? ;)
ABBEY: Yes, I used to think that blogging was for hardcore techies who had no lives. I've since changed my mind. Oh, and, WELCOME TO THE PUBLIC ENJOYMENT OF THE BLOG!!! :) As you all know, I *love* it when people de-lurk themselves. Hmmm ... get ready ... someday next week, I'm thinking of having a "de-lurking day".
Kris to the Tee: Nosy and Narcissistic. That's a GREAT title for a blog. :) And, smooches right back at ya!
Mitch: Yes. Protocol. You've learned well, my dear. :) And, I know what you mean about "just the tip". When you read someone's blog, it's like you get to know them *BUT* only the parts about themselves that they've chosen to show you. And, even then, you only know it as they've *told* it, not as it actually is. So, I guess the bottom line is: don't make any assumptions.
Nerd Girl: I have a written journal, but I must admit ... now that I blog, I don't write in it as much. It seems like double-duty. Yeah, Sid and I should totally do a group blog. "Stolie and Sid ... sitting in a bar ... D-R-I-N-K-I-N-G. ;)
E: Isn't MamaChristy WONDERFUL?!?!?! :) And, *THANKS* for the compliment!!!
JohnJEnright: Yummy, right? :)
Firefly: That's so true. Fact is stronger than fiction ... which is exactly why I so rarely read fiction. :)
Dear Lovey Heart
· 3 years ago
it is the best possible emotional release, although that is my reason now my original reason was because i started my first year of college with no friends and no family and frankly i was lonely so i turned to the web.
Tonito Bandito
· 3 years ago
My sole reason for bloggin is to see you once again in your bra and panties...... Mwah!
lala
· 3 years ago
1. Right back at ya - that's why you have such high traffic.
2. Ditto. Though I hate to admit it...
3. Right again. It's funny - I thought being away from home, blogging would be a good way to keep up with friends and family - but instead its become a new, small network of new 'friends' that you can share things with. And the comments are in part funny, sage advice and inspirational. It's really helped some days.
P.S. You are one of my favourites!
stolie | The Funky Brown Chick
· 3 years ago
Dear Lovey Heart: Blogging is kinda like free therapy. I love it. :)
Tonito Bandito: I *ADORE* you, sweetie! If it's bra and panties you want, it's bra and panties you'll get. Maybe sometime later this week or early next week.
lala: THANKS!!!!! :)
Nics
· 3 years ago
I initially started blogging to keep in touch with friends who were studying abroad for a year. Then I kept hitting the next blog button and found some great people like yourself! So when my friends came back I kept going.
I think in a way it's cathartic as well as a vent for my narcissistic tendencies. There have been a few days in the past fortnight that I've come home from work, typed a post filled with bile, reread it and then deleted it. It's theraputic.
Nics
· 3 years ago
And also, I'm definitely planning on New York. I am however saving to go to Toronto in October(distant family wedding) so it might take a while!
stolie | The Funky Brown Chick
· 3 years ago
Toronto is only a mere 1-hour flight away from New York ... ;)
stolie | The Funky Brown Chick
· 3 years ago
... and, yes, Blogging is sooooo a form of therapy.
Mel Chickk
· 3 years ago
I started a blog as a way of keeping a diary of my life. Never thinking about anyone reading it, it was just a place for me to write. I did post #500 today.
I read others because I am nosey, curious, what ever you want to call it, but I like being able to peek into the lives of others, like yourself, who have really interesting lives.
It is funny how you can get wrapped up in it though. There are a few blogs that I read on a daily basis and then for what ever reason, the writers vanished. I wonder about them, what they are doing, how things turned out.
Darwin
· 3 years ago
I initially started blogging just to vent about the people I encounter that piss me off on a daily basis.
But then I started reading other people's blogs and I started taking an interest in their lives and started adding my humble two cents worth here and there. Gradually I met some really interesting people like that (like you!).
Now I'm not so angry and pissed off at the world anymore (although I do have my moments!).Now blogging is just a nice hobby, a therapeutic way to de-stress, to follow the tales of my fellow-bloggers and live vicariously through them!
stolie | The Funky Brown Chick
· 3 years ago
Mel Chickk: WOW!!! Congrats on post #500!!! :)
Darwin: I love to live vicariously through the blogger that live throughout all the four corners of the world. It's nice to get a peek into other people's lives. :)
Poppy Cede
· 3 years ago
Tonight I just told my mother that my best friend is someone I met online, someone I've never met, someone I've never spoken to. She thought that was very odd. I thought it was relieving.
Yes, world, my best friend is Bdogg. Yay, me!
I just got a LURKER t-shirt, but I thought I'd decloak again, since it's been 6 months since I commented.
momok
· 3 years ago
Though i'm a computer geek, have never been into blogging. It is great. Where else could you write about your life and get counselling and therapy for free.
Also like that it makes me (more) aware of the fact, i'm not the only one with problems, and i'm not really that weird or out of wack compared to the rest.
People "watching" comes in as a bonus, a really big bonus.
How else am I to "know" about you and your existance?
stolie | The Funky Brown Chick
· 3 years ago
Poppy Cede: YAY!!! Welcome (back) to public enjoyment of the blog! ;)
momok: That's soooo true. Blogging "introduces" you to (part of) the lives of people that'd you'd probably never "meet" under any other circumstances.
Papigiulio
· 3 years ago
Blogging can be fun, but it can also be a pain in the ass if you have a boring life. I on one hand like to entertain my readers, as far as thats even possible lol.
Bloggers is also for people all over the world with the same interest so they can relate.
And off course the most important reason. To get laid heh.
stolie | The Funky Brown Chick
· 3 years ago
We all have our reasons.
momok
· 3 years ago
Blogging gets you laid??? now thats is news to me!!!
stolie | The Funky Brown Chick
· 3 years ago
Hey, it was news to me too, but it if worls for PapaG, then he should run with it.
I, on the other hand, can honestly say that I've never had the following situation happen ...
ME: Do you blog? HOTTIE: No. Do you? ME: Yes. HOTTIE: Let's get it on.
Papigiulio
· 3 years ago
hah well it didn't quite go like that, but you never know.
strange people on this planet so anything is possible heh
stolie | The Funky Brown Chick
· 3 years ago
That's so true! :)
beautyinbaltimore
· 3 years ago
I blog to get things off my chest. I have a million and one ideas and thoughts going through my head so I must express them.
All Comments
Yes--it is like people watching from the comfort of your home. That's why I read and watch...but why do I actually post?? Gee...I'm not really sure.
I like writing. I like filming. I like editing. I don't keep a journal anymore. I don't have much to hide.
I guess I'm just a compulsive documenter...where else BUT the internet could I put it all??
We are also voyeurs. We peer into the lives of people we don't know hearing stories and seeing sides of them they may not share with anyone outside their blog.
I love reading an entertaining writerwho makes me laugh and makes me think. I also love checking out the blogs of others who read the blogs I read. Some of us are seriously weird monkeys and I always find that fascinating.
It's true, Stolie, we get involved with our readers and involved with the people we read. I share things in blog comments and stories I wouldn't tell a stranger. Bloggers tend to be forthright with each other.
Your post captures the essence of us all I believe.
Also I'm applying to medical school presently which provides me all kinds of material to tell my readers. I'm also hoping my story will touch somebody somewhere. The blog is supposed to cover only my 1 yr application to medical school but as the months go by, i'm beginning to think it will cover more.
So there you go, one of your lurkers has come out the closet
The real reason is I'm nosy and narcissistic and this has become my guilty pleasure.
Smooches.
I started my blog initially to track my travels through Australia and Indonesia. And it worked well for that.
Then, I returned to Vancouver and liked the writing - it was sort of "doogie houser'ish" in terms of writing thoughts, ideas, etc. And so I keep going.
I like reading the blogs that I've linked because I like hearing what's going on in their lives, knowing full-well that what I see is a snapshop, just like what I show is just the tip of the proverbial ice-berg.
At the end, I'm just hoping NOT to go Titanic.
Take care.
I blog because I like to talk. A lot. Maybe too much. And I very much write the way I talk. So, blogging is a way for me to be "heard." Whether by a few, by many, or some days, none.
I like reading blogs because I'm nosy. Because I can escape into other people's lives and see what's happening "out there." And of course, so I can live vicariously through you and Sid!
I love reading your blog and others that I've bookmarked because it is like goldenleo said - people watching - only with words instead of the actual pictures and Stollie my dear you are the Picasso of Words.
Have a beautiful!
missbhavens: I *LOVE* your videoposts. The one about your crazy-ass neighbor is my favorite.
laurie: Voyeur? Moi?? ;)
ABBEY: Yes, I used to think that blogging was for hardcore techies who had no lives. I've since changed my mind. Oh, and, WELCOME TO THE PUBLIC ENJOYMENT OF THE BLOG!!! :) As you all know, I *love* it when people de-lurk themselves. Hmmm ... get ready ... someday next week, I'm thinking of having a "de-lurking day".
Kris to the Tee: Nosy and Narcissistic. That's a GREAT title for a blog. :) And, smooches right back at ya!
Mitch: Yes. Protocol. You've learned well, my dear. :) And, I know what you mean about "just the tip". When you read someone's blog, it's like you get to know them *BUT* only the parts about themselves that they've chosen to show you. And, even then, you only know it as they've *told* it, not as it actually is. So, I guess the bottom line is: don't make any assumptions.
Nerd Girl: I have a written journal, but I must admit ... now that I blog, I don't write in it as much. It seems like double-duty. Yeah, Sid and I should totally do a group blog. "Stolie and Sid ... sitting in a bar ... D-R-I-N-K-I-N-G. ;)
E: Isn't MamaChristy WONDERFUL?!?!?! :) And, *THANKS* for the compliment!!!
JohnJEnright: Yummy, right? :)
Firefly: That's so true. Fact is stronger than fiction ... which is exactly why I so rarely read fiction. :)
2. Ditto. Though I hate to admit it...
3. Right again. It's funny - I thought being away from home, blogging would be a good way to keep up with friends and family - but instead its become a new, small network of new 'friends' that you can share things with. And the comments are in part funny, sage advice and inspirational. It's really helped some days.
P.S. You are one of my favourites!
Tonito Bandito: I *ADORE* you, sweetie! If it's bra and panties you want, it's bra and panties you'll get. Maybe sometime later this week or early next week.
lala: THANKS!!!!! :)
I think in a way it's cathartic as well as a vent for my narcissistic tendencies. There have been a few days in the past fortnight that I've come home from work, typed a post filled with bile, reread it and then deleted it. It's theraputic.
I read others because I am nosey, curious, what ever you want to call it, but I like being able to peek into the lives of others, like yourself, who have really interesting lives.
It is funny how you can get wrapped up in it though. There are a few blogs that I read on a daily basis and then for what ever reason, the writers vanished. I wonder about them, what they are doing, how things turned out.
But then I started reading other people's blogs and I started taking an interest in their lives and started adding my humble two cents worth here and there. Gradually I met some really interesting people like that (like you!).
Now I'm not so angry and pissed off at the world anymore (although I do have my moments!).Now blogging is just a nice hobby, a therapeutic way to de-stress, to follow the tales of my fellow-bloggers and live vicariously through them!
Darwin: I love to live vicariously through the blogger that live throughout all the four corners of the world. It's nice to get a peek into other people's lives. :)
Yes, world, my best friend is Bdogg. Yay, me!
I just got a LURKER t-shirt, but I thought I'd decloak again, since it's been 6 months since I commented.
Also like that it makes me (more) aware of the fact, i'm not the only one with problems, and i'm not really that weird or out of wack compared to the rest.
People "watching" comes in as a bonus, a really big bonus.
How else am I to "know" about you and your existance?
momok: That's soooo true. Blogging "introduces" you to (part of) the lives of people that'd you'd probably never "meet" under any other circumstances.
Bloggers is also for people all over the world with the same interest so they can relate.
And off course the most important reason. To get laid heh.
I, on the other hand, can honestly say that I've never had the following situation happen ...
ME: Do you blog?
HOTTIE: No. Do you?
ME: Yes.
HOTTIE: Let's get it on.
strange people on this planet so anything is possible heh