Someone gave me some unsolicited advice yesterday, with good intention no doubt, that:
1): If I want to be more popular in a social site, like Multiply, I should be less choosy and accept more invitations (my Inbox on Multiply informed me today there are 141 invitations pending), and:
2) Don't post newsy Blogs (which I usually titled News Tip-Bits), because nowadays, most people if not everybody, are up to the minute with what's happening just about anywhere in the world; not with the media reporting forced down your throat however which way you look.
This someone is wrong, well wrong in the sense that ...
1) I don't have a profile on Multiply or any other site so as to collect friends like many do as their principal aim. Whenever, though very rarely, I find someone I consider a 'Friend' instead of just a name, and am also taken as such, I am over the moon. Quantity of anything, material or intangible, is never my priority; quality is.
2) I don't 'write' news, but yes, I pick up the news and write it down my own way as an observer and, definitely not with the purpose of informing others what's happening and where. My Blogs to me serve as sort of a brief record of my life and my world where certain things happen while I am doing this or that. What is generally deemed as trivial or totally lack of news value might, to me, be something I wish to remember. In addition ...
3) I do not write for others, or with even with the hope to interest others; I write purely for myself. Should a small part of what I write did interest somebody, the more gratifying for me; an unexpected bonus.
