Most Boring Blogs in the Community

Here's a list of the different categories of blog that I have come across with in my years of bloghopping, and swear I will never come back again to.

Political blogs. No, don't get me wrong. I'm not talking about always-political blogs. I'm talking about the sometimes-political-most-of-the-time-personal-disguising-as-political type of blogs. Uh, give me a break. Stick to one theme for Pete's sake. If they want to publish their take on political issues, then do so only if there are such. Wait until there is actually something you could comment on. They shouldn't mix political critiques with this-is-what-happened-today-and-it-totally-sucked posts. They just confuse readers. And please, don't they claim that they author a political blog if they post their daily ramblings on it. That's just so not amusing.

Dark-themed rant blogs. Yeah, I know what you're thinking. This blog used to be exactly like that. And I did realize I wasn't getting any readers because of my content. That's why I switched genres, from totally dark stuff to light, popular, loving life kind of writing. Accept it. No one wants to read depressing stuff. One reason may be that they don't wanna get affected by what you write (read: get depressed). That is, if you write effectively. If you don't and you just think you do, visitors end up leaving your site and swearing never to come back again, pissed. Another reason may be that it's just boring. See, there are a lot of rant blogs out there waiting to be read and recognized. Some actually are, for crying out loud. But if you don't do that well in rant writing, you had just better write about something else.

Blogs authored in the conyo (English-Filipino slang) language. Uh huh, conyo is slang. It's never okay to use it in a civilized, much more, a formal conversation. And the same goes with writing. Don't tell me you haven't stumbled upon one. If you really haven't, click here. Let me warn you first before giving it a whirl. This totally is one of the blogs your mama warned you about. Don't you go there if you're already in a bad mood. You will surely want to take the author's head off for publishing such content on the internet.

Poetry blogs. The not-so-applause-deserving kind of poetry. Poetry is one great thing to mess with. I'm referring to aspiring poets who start with writing nonsense. Say, a mug for example. These people try to make a rotten poem out of this mug, thinking of all possible rhymes they could use, and coming up with something far less than what is actually called a poem. It may also give an impression that it might just be a seven-year old learning how to do rhyming for the first time.

Personal story blogs. Personal blogs are fine. They're fun most of the time, especially if the author writes well and never forgets to inject some humor into the posts. What's irritating to read is the personal story type of blog. The blog that only contains here's-what-happened-and-that's-just-it posts. I mean, what do they think they're doing? They blog just for the sake of doing it on a daily basis. No reason. No sense. No idea. No insight. So why read at all?

Most of the time, you have just got to adhere to what works for you. You have to set your rules and standards to make the best out of your blogging experience. Sometimes, though, you have just got to break your own rules.