About blogging
There has been a study about Greek bloggers, whose results were published some time ago. My Greek friends can find the results here.
What surprised me were the basic conclusions. There has been noted an emergence of A-bloggers who lead to an overestimation of the interactivity of the blogs and their orientation towards external events. Their individualistic and self-expressive nature has been consequently underestimated.
What I have noticed is certainly a political orientation of Greek blogs, with a lot of negativity. Leftists use it as a tool of propaganda with the peaking of a text I read recently which used the word “profit” used all over again in a clearly obsessive way.
There are also those who rant all the time and are negative about everything. I have the examples of a guy who decided to stop blogging and he got really mocking and angry responses. (If he was so negative people got sick of him… why couldn’t they just stop paying attention at him?) There are those who rant about Greek culture. I love those who rant about Greek drivers. They are so to the point!!!
I have also met those who rant about football fanaticism. (Especially back when a man was killed it was so in vogue!) And there are also those who rant about Greek pop music and artists. (Lol! I have done this too, but it was never my main point.) Basic lessons about those last people: if you want to change people, there are gentle ways to do it. Examples:
- If you don’t like football fanaticism, you can promote other sports. Having more than one stimulus is always beneficial to people. (Of course things in sports are tricky… they tend to make people let off steam.)
- If you don’t like Greek pop music, talking about underground rock music isn’t going to change anything in the music scene. It will only make you sound like an arrogant snob. People sometimes listen to music in order to be with people. Mainstream music is not wrong by default. Promoting pop music of better quality is the way to make people acquire better music criteria.
Well, my main point is that there are ways to approach people and establish better communication bridges. I know things aren’t so simple I present them, but talking in equal terms should help in principle.
What surprised me were the basic conclusions. There has been noted an emergence of A-bloggers who lead to an overestimation of the interactivity of the blogs and their orientation towards external events. Their individualistic and self-expressive nature has been consequently underestimated.
What I have noticed is certainly a political orientation of Greek blogs, with a lot of negativity. Leftists use it as a tool of propaganda with the peaking of a text I read recently which used the word “profit” used all over again in a clearly obsessive way.
There are also those who rant all the time and are negative about everything. I have the examples of a guy who decided to stop blogging and he got really mocking and angry responses. (If he was so negative people got sick of him… why couldn’t they just stop paying attention at him?) There are those who rant about Greek culture. I love those who rant about Greek drivers. They are so to the point!!!
I have also met those who rant about football fanaticism. (Especially back when a man was killed it was so in vogue!) And there are also those who rant about Greek pop music and artists. (Lol! I have done this too, but it was never my main point.) Basic lessons about those last people: if you want to change people, there are gentle ways to do it. Examples:
- If you don’t like football fanaticism, you can promote other sports. Having more than one stimulus is always beneficial to people. (Of course things in sports are tricky… they tend to make people let off steam.)
- If you don’t like Greek pop music, talking about underground rock music isn’t going to change anything in the music scene. It will only make you sound like an arrogant snob. People sometimes listen to music in order to be with people. Mainstream music is not wrong by default. Promoting pop music of better quality is the way to make people acquire better music criteria.
Well, my main point is that there are ways to approach people and establish better communication bridges. I know things aren’t so simple I present them, but talking in equal terms should help in principle.