I should really work on a goal. The blog at the minute is moving really slowly. Just to clarify, I want to have a shout out to those in Japan and Brazil. This week, Brazil has viewed the blog five times and Japan has viewed once, Germany also viewed once. Overall the blog’s traffic has increased 90% but let’s aim to get that higher. How do we get it higher? We need to make more posts! Most of the traffic to the site is from referring sites and only some traffic is coming directing from searching. One thing I should really do is to link most of the things I’ve got a profile with to the blog. Facebook is where I mainly post a link when I write a new post so that my friends can read it. Some do but I assume most don’t. Here’s a shout out to those who do read my blog! Big ups to you guys! You keep me going!
Anyway, that’s one thing I should maybe try and do this summer is to link up the blog with my YouTube channel which is currently not doing very much at the moment except for favourite-ing videos. There are a few videos on there but most of them aren’t very good. I used to have a few others on there but I think I took them down. Maybe I should put them back up again? There are also a few sketches that I could do and then post them up. However, there’s one thing that’s holding me back from all this... its called anonymity. Once you link up all your different profiles from different websites, it’s probably easier to track you down in real life, if you really wanted to of course. A little bit of information here, and a little bit of information there, a photo here, and location there can prove vital for those who want to track you down. You can’t be too careful out there and I try to remain as anonymous as possible. I have nothing to hide and I have done no serious wrongs nor has my family. I’m 18 so why should I be frightened of other people I don’t know on the internet finding out? You never know who’s stalking you.
Since I’ve started my job in December, it seems like I know everyone in my area when I go out to the shops. Some regulars even come up to me to say ‘hi’. It’s actually rather annoying. However, do we really have to sacrifice our own privacy to become an internet hit or at least grow an audience who’d read your posts or even watch your videos? I don’t believe we should have to come out and give out all our details. We can easily fake them just like those who may watch or read your posts might fake their identities. It could be even fun faking yourself and taking on a new persona. Taking on a new persona and saying things that you really wouldn’t say yourself. But if you fake yourself and your persona, would the readers or viewers be put off because there person portrayed isn’t real? Most people these days strive to watch reality TV in all forms and watch videos and read blogs on the internet of real people. Maybe most people these days strive and beg to find that they are normal just like everyone else out there. They desperately want to know what other people are doing and relate to them. Take for example the millions of ‘likes’ on Facebook. Each ‘like’ is like a reward for the brain, a sigh of relief that 20,000 other people do the same things while eating or hovering or driving or something.
The whole sense of loss of community now makes people strain to find out what other people are doing over the fence. Fences weren’t used ‘back in the day’ or they were very low fences because most neighbours in the street would talk to each other, now the fences are built up 2 or even 3 metres high so that they block out the neighbours and allows you to sunbath naked in the back. But the ‘socialness’ in humans is still there because we go on the internet so much and even end up stalking each other. On the internet, it feels safe. You can be anonymous but also have a few profiles on different sites which makes you feel you have you own little corner to play with, decorate, and update as much as you want to. Humans want to be so private, yet still have a little hole in the fence to peer through to see what they’re missing and be reassured that they’re normal.
So why do I have a blog? Blogging keeps me going even though it doesn’t seem like it. I used to write in the Moleskine detailing everything that no one really cares about, my thoughts and opinions aren’t really cared for by anyone else but me. I had this delusion that I am a writer and that makes me so much different to other people and that when I die, all my writing’s, songs, and sketches will be published for everyone to see. After a few months of believing, I finally realised that I’m about as normal as everyone else. Lots of other people write day in day out, even more than me. Writers who are younger than me are coming up with better songs and sketches. This obviously made me feel insignificant. I wrote to entertain and yet everyone has the same story to tell or relate to. I’m just like everyone else. The blog allows me to get that instant hit from having people read about what I think about and my opinions. An instant hit that something I keep coming back for more and more. Sometimes I stop for a few weeks or months, but I do come back to it again. Blogging helps writing because you have an audience and the audience want to be entertained and reassured that they’re normal just like me. I am an entertainer. Maybe not naturally but I do try to be. The silent entertainer. The one who sits back and listens to what others have to say before I say what I have to. Sometimes I have to shout but no one hears, so I might shout a little louder. These days you have to be very bold in a group of people to get your opinion noticed. You have to speak fast before everyone loses their interest and starts talking to the nearest person beside them instead of listening to you. Instead I sit quietly, sometimes I shout, sometimes I just remember what I have to say and say it later. With blogging, no one interrupts. If they get fed up with me ranting on this, they can just hit ‘back’ and read and search something else. There’s more freedom and I can express and entertain for as long as I want or for as long you want me to entertain you.
The hit of being an entertainer and hearing that people enjoy you can be about as deadly as a hit from heroin. Most entertainers, comedians, and performers end up dead years before they were meant to because they end up putting too much strain on themselves. They do something not quite as good on one night of stand up so they go back and work and work until they get it better next time. They’re never quite satisfied and try to get it better each time because there’s a special hit of making someone laugh until they cry or even just a simple smile. They keep coming back for more. That’s what I love. I like getting that hit of someone reading. For once someone might read my opinions and discover a different side to me. It’s another side which is afraid of coming out and shouting and doing its own thing because it’s afraid of what other people might think. A fear of failure and not being able to get that hit, so it stays quite until it’s the right time.
What have I just written? I type a load of gibberish and ends up there’s no valid point to it in the end. Ah well! I think I need to structure my posts more. Something to work on.
The points!
· Link profiles· Keep anonymous until ... it’s time
· Update YouTube channel
· Post more on here. More photos perhaps? A project to work on and keep you updated on it?
Suggestions are very much welcomed!
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