Breaking Blogosphere Obligations? The Series

You have to sit in the same bus seat throughout a bus trip. You have to face the elevator doors when you are in an elevator. You have to avoid looking at someone who falls down, even if you want to make sure they are ok. With so many obligations that we try to fulfill, it seems that we have forgotten why something is an obligation in the first place, and whether or not such an obligation is necessary or even good. The blogging world is no different.

Blogosphere likes obligations

We follow bloggers who make money. We try to cater to search engines more than catering to readers even if our main purpose of blogging is not to please search engines. We talk about topics revolving around money since everyone else makes money through that topic. We keep talking about being good to our readers, yet our actions and our selfish nature to want things makes us only use other online people and be nice to them only since we need things from them.

The Obligations Series

Starting today, I would like to elaborate on this point through a series of points revolving around some different elements that define blogging through different perspectives. The first point will be explained in my next post, and it will revolve around obligations we feel when it comes to communication through comments. I will tell you how I view the concept of communication through comments, and treating it as an obligation, as being something that is misunderstood by many, if not the majority, in the blogosphere.

Understanding the concept and the validity of obligations in any area where we want to appreciate others is very critical to appreciation itself; without such an understanding, we will most probably be faking appreciation or be simply doing random things without purpose while hoping to end up appreciating. I will also explain briefly how such following such obligations can be good in certain situations, and how avoiding such obligations can be bad in certain situations.

Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions for this upcoming topic, or if you have any obligations that you would like me to cover. Thank you.