i think the word you were looking for is presumptuous.
this blogging thing is funny.
what amuses me is how it inevitably comes with all the social baggage that comes with all human interaction. communities and groups are formed. and communities can't exist without "outsiders."
it's a lot like high school, i think, with the same social circles, same segregated mentality. the same elitist behavior of, "do i know you? are you known by anyone i know? no? well then, piss off." reflex action. any time you have 3 or more people in the same place, or doing the same thing, the hierarchy starts to build itself. any newcomer is either immediately shunted to the bottom of the unavoidable pyramid, or cast out entirely. it's funny that grown adults still fall into those same high school patterns.
and these blogs... they are, effectively, public diaries. diaries open to the scrutiny and commentary of others. of course, comments are only welcome from those who are "known." you gotta be part of the in-crowd, so to speak.
this is what makes me laugh, that these things actually have in-crowds. and they know that they're the in-crowd. well, they know that they are part of what they believe is an in-crowd. and they end up acting a whole lot like the in-crowd in high school did; that is to say, like self-important douches.
i wasn't aware that there could be an online in-crowd; seems like an oximoron. i thought the internet in-crowd was the demographic responsible for the coining of the term "pwned." but i guess that's a separate online social caste. and you can just see the gamer/programmer demographic glaring across the cafeteria at the blogger "community."
at any rate, sometimes the pot calls the kettle black, is what i'm saying.
what amuses me is how it inevitably comes with all the social baggage that comes with all human interaction. communities and groups are formed. and communities can't exist without "outsiders."
it's a lot like high school, i think, with the same social circles, same segregated mentality. the same elitist behavior of, "do i know you? are you known by anyone i know? no? well then, piss off." reflex action. any time you have 3 or more people in the same place, or doing the same thing, the hierarchy starts to build itself. any newcomer is either immediately shunted to the bottom of the unavoidable pyramid, or cast out entirely. it's funny that grown adults still fall into those same high school patterns.
and these blogs... they are, effectively, public diaries. diaries open to the scrutiny and commentary of others. of course, comments are only welcome from those who are "known." you gotta be part of the in-crowd, so to speak.
this is what makes me laugh, that these things actually have in-crowds. and they know that they're the in-crowd. well, they know that they are part of what they believe is an in-crowd. and they end up acting a whole lot like the in-crowd in high school did; that is to say, like self-important douches.
i wasn't aware that there could be an online in-crowd; seems like an oximoron. i thought the internet in-crowd was the demographic responsible for the coining of the term "pwned." but i guess that's a separate online social caste. and you can just see the gamer/programmer demographic glaring across the cafeteria at the blogger "community."
at any rate, sometimes the pot calls the kettle black, is what i'm saying.
posted by Just Spence | 3:31 PM
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