Blogs...Blogs...Blogs...

Blogs are everywhere. They are topics of conversation and the focus of much time by the creator. The problem is that all the conversation about them is vague and not generally specific to a named blog. Blogs are very simply overrated. There are far too many blogs and bloggers to be able to attract many overall readers. There is just not enough time to devote to a number of blogs.
Blogs are unauthoritative opinions that may or may not be based on correct information. Bloggers seem to fall into two categories: those that take nothing seriously and those that take everything very seriously. This frequently results in a lack of balanced consideration when venturing an opinion. This reality of blogging eliminates the rumored income potential for all but a minute number of established bloggers.
Not many years ago, it was a common question to ask if someone had an email. Now everyone seems to have several emails and at least one blog. The amount of individual blogs is overwhelming. Most blogs do not have readership. They are read by the creator of the blog. Blogs are more of an online diary that allows bloggers to feel validated in their opinions. They lack traffic.
Anyone with absolutely nothing to say can blog. With any right or priviledge comes responsibility. Since we have the right of free speech in this country, we also have the responsibility to not knowingly spread untruths and to not incite hatred. With the proliferation of information, opinions often become tangled with truths. Pulling up a weblog can often appear to have the validity of fact when it is a bungle of absurdities. Blogs can also be sources of disseminating hatred and recruiting for organizations devoted to violence and intolerance. Far too often blogs masquerade as standards of thought instead of the varying and creative expression they represent. This creates a dangerous area for advertisers who fear public opinion.
With total freedom and self-policing responsibilities, most blogs are polarized between nonsensical satire veiled as newsworthy truth and a degree of seriousness embracing an arrogance that the blogger has been endowed with a snobbish higher consciousness that should dictate the thoughts of others. The line between these variances can easily be blurred by a reader who might accidentally stumble upon the blog.
Blogs are excellent if they are regarded as rambling diaries that are vehicles of free expression. The illusion of commercial and literary elevation cancels their creativity and clutters the web with more opinion and less information making it more difficult to locate reliable sources of information and not just the momentary unmerited idea. The frequent anonymity allows motives and agendas to be hidden. All of these factors cause the elevation of blogs to be unrealistic and overrated.