Rising Son: Connecting All the Professional Bloggers

Connecting All the Professional Bloggers

Today I got a request from another professional blogger asking to become friends on MySpace. I don't really know him personally, but we did have an e-mail exchange a year or so ago. Before that he requested adding me as a friend on Facebook, even though I didn't have a Facebook account.

Weird, I thought.

But the truth is that I would love become friends with other professional bloggers even if that friendship is only through negatively and positively charged ions.

It also got me to create an account on Facebook. I didn't exactly know what Facebook was about until I accepted this guy's invitation, and set up an account. I thought it was like LinkedIn, full of professionals. It's actually just another MySpace, full of teenagers.

The world of professional blogging has its own aristocracy, its own "A List" and "B List", etc. I suspect this guy is on the A List, though I don't really know that. But a few years ago I intended to immerse myself into this unique society, only to be turned off by it. It's just like any other, full of bull shit, and people full of themselves.

At one point, I found myself falling into the same traps. I saw myself getting into the same stinky shit holes of self-absorbtion. Then I decided to pull out and get out.

Now, I'm content to just exist out here in the blogging boondocks. I just blaze my own trail. I don't even read the old "blogger's blogs" anymore, in fact, I can't even remember the names of them. Some days I'm content to just blog on my local blog, "Menifee 24/7" and call up some friends and ride to the local bar.

Meanwhile the blogging elite are busy kissing each other's asses at the many blogging awards they've created for themselves. They set up an entire society and framework, just to place themselves into positions of prestige and admiration.

You can tell I get pretty turned off by the whole elitist thing. I imagine this crabby attitude of mine will keep me from getting rich. That's ok. I remember that old movie, "You Can't Take it With You" with Lionel Barrymore. That's what I want to be.

So it's interesting that this guy happened to look me up on MySpace, and found me. Maybe he just wants to pad his friendship count, or maybe he really wants to be a friend.

Labels: Blogging