How to not bore your friends on Social Networking sites
Okay, I couldn't resist reading this site. I have them on my twitter, and the topic kind of just jumped out. Maybe all you hipsters have opinions you want to share on this topic too, seeing as there are a lot of strong opinions about the soul-sucking factor of FB.
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L
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I hate it when parents are told that sharing stuff about their kids is boring to other people. IMHO, NASCAR is boring, but they have a whole TV channel devoted to it.
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius"--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
the only thing I dislike or find boring about people writing about their kids on facebook or twitter or such as that, is that there is this whole genre of 'mommy blogging', of writers who are hoping/planning to use their kid writing as a springboard to a book deal or lucrative blog ad sales or whatever, and they copy the writing styles off some of the very popular mom blogs. there is this whole fake mom blog style of writing that just gets on my nerves. I wish more folks would write in their own voice when talking about their kids, you know?
"...and they copy the writing styles off some of the very popular mom blogs. there is this whole fake mom blog style of writing that just gets on my nerves. I wish more folks would write in their own voice when talking about their kids, you know?"
Yes! I know exactly what you mean. This is a concept I have been trying to put into words for a couple years now, and you nailed it.
now I'm a little curious...point me to one of these blogs, I'm in the mood for a chuckle
look I have my books listed all over my blogs and ads also so that is most definitely not what I mean. I understand that other people have children to feed and bills to pay. There is nothing wrong at all in selling your writing, ok. it's the intention to sell a cliched version of motherhood. they are not writing in their own voice. you know how there is this whole genre called 'chick lit'? you know it when you see it, it's fluffy stuff that is the literary version of that show sex in the city, a cliche idea of 'young single women in the big city' if you will. some mom bloggers remind me of that, you can tell they're deliberately writing in this 'mom-blog-lit' style.
can i quote you on my blog? i can quote it as a written by Mercury, either linking your blog {this one or one of the others. It may be a while before i use the quote... and it won't be a negative post, just some observations of my own spring boarding off your comment... if i ever get around to articulating my own thoughts on personal experience with blogs...
I'd love it if you linked it to my mama blog:
http://trulakids.com
my kid is one of many things i talk about, and people don't get bored talking to me. one friend told me, "you couldn't be boring if you tried," but i suspect it was a veiled commentary on my sanity.
anyway.
celebrity gossip. boring. tv shows. boring. yet, that's all i hear them prattle about at the office. can i go over and tell them no one gives a shit? i suppose i could.
I hate when folks try to outline what is appropriate posts in social networking. Like, every time I sit down to write, I should consider the 100 folks who may read it. Fuck that. I'm talking about my kids and if someone doesn't like it, by all means, don't read or delete my mama ass. 
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that's what it comes to if we look to those lucrative sites that blather about family tales with less than a genuine voice with the hope of more ad click-throughs.
Some of the parent /mom blogs that I read, and like, seem to not really care if anyone reads them or not. They at least come across as not being overly self editing.
If someone has written something that they intend to sell or publish, that's okay too, but honesty about their intentions is important--in my opinion at least. I like getting published; I love being read, but the content of my work is not often about my family... but sometimes it is. At least I'm up front about that.
As far as FB goes, 'love me or leave me'... that's what I say. My 'friends' can block me or dump me if they are tired of my updates and my comments about my life, my family and that includes my kids. Whatever.
I do have to seriously consider self editing, as my teenage boys are also my fb friends and there are greater things at play here than keeping everyone up to the moment with the minuta of my life. When your children begin to read your blogs, and are your facebook friends things change... but this isn't about merely writing to 'entertain' the world on fb (my world is so small it wouldn't matter) unless all you became my friends--but then we'd have way to much of each other.
'Be good to your mother, or she'll blog about you.' a dark joke--not ofen employed.
Thanks all you hip mamas for your comments... I'd thought you all might have a thing or two to say.