I was wondering whether blogging is beginning to have an effect on the people who write them. A few of my friends have got blogs (which I still agree with Hitherto should be called personal sites or diaries or something); one has a satirical blog (and is currently freaked out and chuffed because his latest site has gone viral).
Another friend has a one about dating in New York which is incredibly honest and funny.
And another one has a brilliantly written blog and so deserves to get the job in women's magazines that she wants.
My latest discovery is a blog written by a fellow sex writer (again, in the US). It was set up so she could justify her huge porn collection. She lists me as a 'Muse of masturbation' which I love. And her bukkake links are incredibly interesting (note to anyone who already knows what this is; the links are to articles about it, not video footage.)
But I digress.
If you keep a personal site/blog/whatever, you need to be doing/thinking interesting things every day so you've got stuff to report back to your readers. So do people deliberately try to live a more interesting life so that they don't seem boring on their blogs?
I've certainly met some people who, when hearing a good story, say 'That's ace. It's got to go in my blog.' And yep, I've found myself starting doing it too.
I don't know whether this is deeply sad and pathetic, or if it means that the world is going to become a better place because everyone's out there having more fun.
(As you may be able to tell, nothing interesting happened to me today.)