Thursday, 09 July 2009

  • Your Blogging Age

    What is your blogging age?  Now by that I don’t mean how long you have been blogging or how long you have been associated with any blog site etc.  I mean, what age do you portray by the way you blog and interact?

    Now that may seem like an odd question, but hear me out for a minute.  The more I read out here in the blogosphere, the more I find that people are not really as old as they make you think by how they write and comment. 

    For example…I was reading comments from someone one day on another blog site and this person was letting others know that their “years” of study of a particular subject qualified them to be considered more of an expert than the person they were conversing with.  I kept reading as the comments went along and this “expert” had some convinced that he was truly an experienced scholar in this particular field.  Well…I felt the need to look closer at this scholar based on some of his comments and found his profile and profile picture.  He appeared to be no older (real age) than 21 years of age so I commented and simply asked, “How old are you by the way?”  This learned scholar then disappeared off the comments of this particular blog.  I don’t care how smart someone thinks they are, 21 years of age will never qualify someone to say “I have studied this subject for years extensively.”  My point is that this person was making people think he was a seasoned scholar by what he posted which in turn made his blog age seem older than it really was.

    Then there are those who claim that they have life’s answers due to their experiences and then again you click on their profile and find them to be a teenager in real life.  Their posts would make you think you were reading someone who truly has experienced different aspects of life simply due to their age being old enough that they probably have seen and experienced more than someone much younger.




    Then there are those who are out of high school, out of college and have been in the work place for a few years or several years so you would think they would show some signs of their real age out here in cyberspace.  BUT NO!  You see them acting like kids.  They show disrespect towards others.  They post useless dribble for the sake of attention.  They make up senseless stories to compete for friends and readership.  Their comments are full of vulgarity and resemble more of what you used to hear during recess.  These “kids” stalk others and harass like they did in the halls of their high school.  These are the types that when you click on their profile, you are expecting to find an adolescent teenager, but instead find an adult who should know better.

    So here is some advice.  Act your age!  If you are young, don’t try to fool people into thinking you are some wise beyond your years expert.  Be humble enough to realize you don’t know all there is to know yet and learn from the lives of others and someday you will be at the other end of that spectrum and be better equipped to help some young buck (or doe) that comes along.  If you are older, for Pete’s sake show it by the way you write and interact with others.  Quit acting like some punk kid is school and grow up!  Actually put into practice all of those great social skills that you should have learned by now being you really are as old as your birth certificate says.


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