Bad Boy Memes

Ben has a post about memes. Ten reasons why memes are wicked and unwanted and undesirable. If memes were men we would all want one at this point. Isn't that kind of ironic?

I posted a comment sticking up for the lowly meme. Add your thoughts about the life of the meme to Ben's blog.

I do memes if they are interesting or if someone I regularly read tags me with one. I pass on most of them because they are repetitive. It's easy to jump all over memes and be part of the "in" crowd. But my blog is personal and having traffic is interesting but not the reason I keep a blog. I do a meme if I want to. Answering the questions are fun if you don't take them seriously. No one needs to know your first pet's name but you don't have to take it seriously and give a real answer. Instead of writing a pet's name write the name you called your last boyfriend when you played naughty games. That's far more fun than reading anything real or true.

I wrote a confession to being a nose picker once and had loads of comments, most laughing about my post. One posted about how unsanitary that is and blab, blab, blab. It didn't matter. The post was fun to write and it still gets traffic even though it's well buried in my archives now.

Last of all, you're making a mistake if you write a blog to please your readers. You lose something when you write for an audience. It's much more interesting to step inside a blog when someone is writing just to please themselves. You take more chances and are far more likely to be unique and original. Anything less is just following the crowd and then you're just one more blog in the swamp.