More Than Simple Blogs

There was a time I started questioning the existence and purpose of my blog and kept asking the question, What Becometh Thy Blog? Then after a month has passed ushering now into October, Eyeris has his own question to ask many and himself, Malaysian bloggers, where has the FUN gone?

His entry wonders where has all the random fun gone in bloggers. There ain’t not many posts now touching the ramblings, rants, humorous life of people. Instead, now people are blogging for the sake of becoming famous or trying to make it famous.

With the intention of bloggers only doing it not to seek sanctuary in their own space, Eyeris says that he’ll spend anyone a Nescafe 3-in-1 if they prove themselves a qualified ‘Blog Guru’. The guru has to be a certified (though might be self-proclaimed) teacher who tells;

“This is not how you should blog” or “Your blog is not a BLOG” or “You are a bad blogger because you don’t do this and this”.
..as said by Eyeris.

Eyeris had touched a lot of points regarding the simplicity of blogging now turning into a complex media. Instead of normal people just finding a place to voice out, there are bloggers driven by their egos (in hope of making it) and even those now whom are being investigated. So what Eyeris says,

There IS no PROPER way to be a GOOD BLOGGER. There IS no such thing as a good or bad blogger, just bloggers whom are read and those whom are not.

..is entirely true. The dub proper way of blogging in Eyeris’ eyes is that a blogger shouldn’t be ashamed of his grammar or even typos. He said there have been too many bloggers always trying to edit the typos. He believes this is one of the traits of being a true blogger and I do believe so.

On the other hand, like the comment I had left on his post.

Anyway, blogging for fun has lived its over extended life. Currently, blogs are becoming more than just personal thought of a daily life into concentrated topics that people like discussing or reading certain topics in a certain style.

Examples of matured bloggers with their content are like Screenshots, Brand New Malaysian, and more. This is the evolution of blogging and what is growing up to be.

So maybe looking at probloggers as a ‘Guru’ might be too highly instated. Instead, maybe we should accept the real probloggers as our mentors. They are the people who provide guidance of maturing along with our blogs. After all, we all can’t behave like a 9 year old all the time.

Let’s all just go with the times and follow the evolution of bloggers. Allow the existence of older bloggers to be mentors and guide our local bloggers to blog for what is right from their heart and not just from what comes out of their minds.

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