There's a lot of unhappy people out there...

There seems to be an increasing number of people leaving comments on blogs, dissing the bloggers for what they write. Xiaxue just turned her's off (and turned it back on again! go read what she wrote! Funny!), Kenny Sia just wrote something about it today. What is going on? Have people forgotten the fact that blogging was conceived as an online journal, a way for people to express whatever thoughts they have about anything... Why are people so uptight about it and writing really, really bad comments about it? Its so hypocritical! But then, that's what comments are for right? :(

So, it seems we have reached an impasse... people don't like what we are blogging and we don't like what people are commenting...

So, what should bloggers do?

1. Ignore the negative comments: its people's thoughts... they can write what they want... but so can you :) (which is what Xiaxue did! Cool!) Unless you want to...
   
2. Take down the comments section: if you are really affected by the comments, just turn the comments off. Now no one can diss you anymore, but it also mean no one can encourage you or give good comments and constructive feedback. Think about...
   
3. Writing stuff that would not cause offense: yeah right, you can please some people, some of the time and all that... besides, that would defeat the purpose of a blog, right? So you have no choice but to...
   
4. Shut down your site: Not a good option but if you are seriously disillusioned by all these stuff that's going on lately, just quit lor... then nobody can read your blogs anymore, but it means the negative comments have won and you have lost your outlet for your thoughts too...
   

What can blog readers do?

1. Don't read the blogs that you dislike: easier said than done, people generally like to find out about other peoples life, that's how gossip start off... maybe their own life is too mundane or they are voyeurish in some way. So maybe you should just...
   
2. Don't make comments: read and shut up but then... you can't, can you? A comments section is just too tempting :) Therefore, you should...
   
3. Give constructive feedback or positive comments.... but then, there are some articles that will rattle your cage....

So it seems we are back to where we started. :( However, if some of us, especially the readers, can just do some of these things above, the world would be a better place, right?