Those are my top 2 blogs I usually visit the moment I get connected with the internet. Question I ask myself now is, why?
I read blogs usually because they are my friends, and I like get updated on their lives. Good to know how they are doing. (:
But, I have no idea who Violent Acres is, and I highly doubt I'll ever meet her. So, why do I keep going back to her blog to read?
Thus, I've summed a few factors to which why I read such blogs.
The language
V is from some western country, if I'm not mistaken. You know, where the people they speak great and wonderful English. The sort of English the Government is trying to get us to speak.
Anyway, think about it, isn't it always the good English speaker who captures your attention during those long speeches? I know I'd much rather listen to them than listening to my ex-principle talk. Hell, I can even correct her English sometimes!
Thank God from my English teacher.
Paragraphs
V's blog is pretty much nicer to read, literally. When you look at her blog, the spacing between the lines and the nice big fonts makes your reading life way easier. It's just like reading some article.
Would you rather read an article like this:
"Between 7000B.C. to 5000B.C., cultivation of millet and rice and domestication of buffallo. 5000B.C. was when clay food vessels, steamers came from. From the 21st to the 18th century B.C., it was the Xia dynasty, the fatehr of agriculture. 12th to 18th century B.C., Shang dynasty, cast bronze vessels, writings about food."
Or like this:
"Between 7000B.C. to 5000B.C., cultivation of millet and rice and domestication of buffallo. 5000B.C. was when clay food vessels, steamers came from.
From the 21st to the 18th century B.C., it was the Xia dynasty, the father of agriculture.
12th to 18th century B.C., Shang dynasty, cast bronze vessels, writings about food."
I'd obviously take the 2nd one. The moment I see a whole chunk of bullsh*t I'm not interested in, I give up reading that whole essay immediatly.
See why I don't want to be a teacher now? You are forced to read the students' boring homework you give them.
And I can't stand reading the same thing every year. And teaching students the same thing every year too.
Presentation
I hardly return to those blogs where I see loads of dots. Example,
"Haiya..........today was so boring lor... I had nothing to do at home since it was the holidays........and there's still projects to do........ haiya.......I don't care about it now....... and somemore..... I just broke up with my bf.......jerk lah....."
Ok, I really can't stand reading such blogs. There are just so many dots that makes me irritated. Besides, dots make a person sound more whiny and irritating. And the Singlish!
Gosh, not that I'm against Singlish, but having so much sh*t whiny Singlish in that paragraph alone, it makes me close that window IMMEDIATLY.
The worst part is that this sort of bloggers do not paragraph their blog post. So basically, you see a lot of dots.... and dots...... and more.............................. dots.
Well, I hope this post gave you a hint to producing better post from your readers. Then again, you can choose to disregard this whole post and blog like you used to. But I can tell you that your traffic will stay patheically low.
- Crys.
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