It Must Be A Christian Thing?
I was mindlessly flipping through random blogs on Blogger today. I saw so many blogs with family photos in the header. Smiling young couples with infants and young kids. And an occasional dog, or in-law thrown in.
I skimmed some posts. What stood out was the mentions of church and God and whatever faith this family blog worshiped under.
I saw all kinds of bible quotes.
No Church of The Poisoned Mind, a.k.a., Scientology, by the way. Those folks are too busy getting "cleared," or killed in sweatboxs. Not good blog content that sane people would want to read.
I am not criticizing this trend of family blogs, just reporting what I observed.
Obviously, this is a spin-off of "scrap booking." That fad peaked 10 years ago. It seemed to a scrapbook was a photo album, with yarn and glitter glued on it.
Anyway, blogging is a much easier, more sharable scrapbook. I would venture to say, the sharing aspect of the family blog is the most appealing.
After all, people love to talk about their lives. If the life is going well, and the author loves the people in it.
I didn't see any dysfunctional family blogs however. Those would be more readable for people I think. Nobody wants to hear about your happy family that often. A Christmas card, or death notice, or birth; are valid excuses to sling out a mass RSS feed to an announcement like that.
But Billy's two front teeth fell out, is not an email I'm going to click open.
However, if someone tweeted a video clip of his wife getting nailed by the lawn guy while he hid in the closet and taped it... I would naturally link and bookmark that family blog. Then I would Google earth that house, and deliver some flowers to the Mrs, if you catch my drift.
I skimmed some posts. What stood out was the mentions of church and God and whatever faith this family blog worshiped under.
I saw all kinds of bible quotes.
No Church of The Poisoned Mind, a.k.a., Scientology, by the way. Those folks are too busy getting "cleared," or killed in sweatboxs. Not good blog content that sane people would want to read.
I am not criticizing this trend of family blogs, just reporting what I observed.
Obviously, this is a spin-off of "scrap booking." That fad peaked 10 years ago. It seemed to a scrapbook was a photo album, with yarn and glitter glued on it.
Anyway, blogging is a much easier, more sharable scrapbook. I would venture to say, the sharing aspect of the family blog is the most appealing.
After all, people love to talk about their lives. If the life is going well, and the author loves the people in it.
I didn't see any dysfunctional family blogs however. Those would be more readable for people I think. Nobody wants to hear about your happy family that often. A Christmas card, or death notice, or birth; are valid excuses to sling out a mass RSS feed to an announcement like that.
But Billy's two front teeth fell out, is not an email I'm going to click open.
However, if someone tweeted a video clip of his wife getting nailed by the lawn guy while he hid in the closet and taped it... I would naturally link and bookmark that family blog. Then I would Google earth that house, and deliver some flowers to the Mrs, if you catch my drift.