Followers. Followers is a big one. A lot of people stress on that aspect, and it's easy to see why! So yeah, Followers. Probably that doesn't deserve to be the top, first one though! You don't necessarily want to put that first, as if it's your tippest-top priority. Because a lot of the time, you want to come off like "well, my voice as an artist..." - right? I'll leave it tops for now, and then after I think up one to push ahead of it, I'll just slide the text around.
Let's see. Functionality? Functionality is important. People put all kinds of weedjees or wedgies in their - wait, is it widgies? Ouijas? Anyway. Functionality adds bling, and in many cases, embedded malware as well. Depending on your source for wadgels. Be careful on that! Watch it! Malware, man...they call it "malware" because in one of your fancier languages, "mal" means "bad." Let that be a tipoff for you.
Friendliness! Friendliness, sure! That covers a lot of things. In fact, that might be important enough to slide it into the top spot, ahead of followers (which I put first only because I thought of it first). Yeah. I'm going to do it. Actually, no wait - let me get the other 2 "F"s down first. No sense jumping the gun before the facts are in. But really, "Friendliness"? That covers so much. It's going to be hard to beat out that one, once it comes to juking and rejiggering it all up for the top spot!
Facts. Sure! Lots of blogs have a focus on Facts. People appreciate them, people like to have facts brought to their attention that they'd never previously considered, even made-up ones. People sometimes seem to go in for the made-up ones in an even bigger way! They eat it up! Facts.
Which brings us to what. Let me go back and re-read a bit. Okay, one thing that keeps coming up again and again, or that comes up at least twice and starts with an "f", is Focus. It's hard to think of anything more important than Focus, folks. What is your blog's Focus? See?? That's a pretty important question! Maybe more important than friendliness, maybe a little less, you know what - I'm just going to let the "F"s fall where they fell, on this one. It doesn't have to be looked at as a tiered, ranked list by any means. Go through and give each and every one of these "F"s the thought it deserves. Let each be only as important as it really is - to you.
The five "F"s of blogging. Ignore them at your peril, seriously.
8 comments:
Uh, you forgot fantasy.
oh wait.
That's me.
Sorry.
And why didn't functionality make it to the labels? It must be the lesser of the Fs.
Dude. I'm an asshole. I almost called you out on having only 4 Fs.
Then, I realized I pretty much ignored functionality.
Five Fs is a lot to remember, and I'm kind of a slacker.
How about striving for three, but being OK with two?
i used to have a blog with thousands upon thousands of unique hits a day. in a way that served its purpose for awhile, until it didn't anymore. i don't care much about followers anymore. it doesn't quite seem to matter, ultimately; i kill and resurrect blogs all the time and the people come. mostly it's because i don't much care about followers in the first place, and certainly not friendliness (perhaps you noticed?). i just tell the truth. i let myself be an angry, or a smartass, or ingratiating, or self involved, or a whore. i let myself be whatever and surprisingly, that resonates more with people than the manufactured stuff.
@limom - it's a subtle dig at the restricted functionality of the label function.
@Sarah P - that's the beauty of the program! You can Focus on whichever "F"s you feel are the most behoovious.
@Peau - I liked what your about writing as a character, and being a character. There's real truth to what you said about real vs. online life. I think its best to just take whatever words people say at face value for whatever you happen to get out of it. Whatever truth value, whatever humor value, whatever value. Truth springs oft from tongues of fools, who may think they were only kidding!
it's always the people who don't give a shit who have people lining up all day and twice on Sundays to give a shit about them
Hm. That may be true - but you make it sound like a strategy! Which...if it were a strategy, then the strategist loses their "don't-give-a-shit" credential!
But I have hardly any followers, my blog doesn't do aything interesting, and it is only occassionally friendly.
Does that mean I am in the category of the sixth F: "Fucked"?
No way dude, you have achieved the hallowed 7th F: FUNK.
That just means You doing yo' own thing. You ain't responsible to nobody, but yet you're still responsible. Your funk is expressed in that act and essence of personal integrity that sits serenely unsupervised by the superego because it's not concerned with one's externalized concept of what the eyes of the world might think is right. It's too immediate and blood-deep natural to so much as reflect on such trash considerations.
But the decision still faces you: do you want to be the paragon of funk? Or the renegade of funk.
The point is going to come when you can only play it one of those two ways. In the meantime, though - just get down, with the funky self.
As you were.
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