Why does one start a blog?
Good question. Glad I asked it.
I suppose there are some bloggers who want to share their works of fiction and poetry. There are some who want to share their love of travel and the arts and photography. Then there are some bloggers, like myself, who need a safe place to rant.
A blog really is the only decent place where one can rant anymore.
The original stomping ground of a good rant was at your local watering hole. But then alcohol happens, which leads to drunken calls, more drinking, follow up drunken texts, more drinking, and an insanely high tab at the end of the night. Not the best place for a rant (especially for a drunk white girl with a very low tolerance for alcohol and a very high tolerance for drama).
Enter facebook. Ranting would seem to be a perfect fit here, but perfect it is not. I used to love facebook rants but now it seems facebook brings the drama more than a passed out girl who drank 3 wine spritzers at the bar.
If you post something political, people are going to comment on it. If you post something religious, people are going to comment on it. If you post some family drama, you best believe people are going to comment on it. If you share one of my blogs…well… actually that would be the one time where you would hear crickets on a social media outlet.
Lastly, on facebook you have to watch every little thing you say because EVERYONE has a facebook. Family, friends, co-workers, frenemies, and bosses. You specifically can’t name names because that person will see it, and isn’t the point of a good old-fashioned rant to name names?
Why not twitter? Well twitter limits you to only 140 characters. Who can produce an all-inclusive and concise rant in 140 characters?! Me thinks no one (but if anyone is up to the challenge tweet me your rant @frugoal).
So naturally a blog is the safest of safe places for a rant. Blogs are a bit passe, which translates to a beautiful place to air one’s grievancesI This blogger definitely has a few grievances to air, but ranting about ranting oddly made all of my “ranting” needs go buh bye.
Thanks for stopping by and if you want to rant go ahead and leave a comment below!
Tune in tomorrow for an all new blog in my #93daysofblogging challenge happening all summer long (don’t question the hashtag, just accept it and move on).
Ang
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