The Singapore blogging scene seems to come alive with famous celebrity blogs. I am not putting the names here so it will add on their google search results. Not that I am jealous but I feel it will certainly help if the count does not increase.
I went to a few such blog sites, only 1 or 2 I feel are worthy to be mentioned. Some are really brainless and I do not see the appeal. And it seems to be the majority of these blogs are seeking attention rather than blogging. Also, some are shirking responsibilities from what they wrote. I believe you should be responsible for what you write, own up your mistakes etc.
A famous example is that someone apparently with the vicious intent to impersonate a China blogger (who is of a certain fame) and used it to attack a Singapore blogger. This Malaysian blogger who is a pal to this Singapore blogger slammed the impersonator. When it was alerted to him that it was a sham and he was tricked into response, he grudgingly put up a disclaimer to claim what he wrote at the time was true as what he believed. He only mentioned that it was blogged under the assumption that the English version of the blog belongs to the China blogger. I feel that he should not just said it was under the assumption that it was true but instead put out an apology. This can certainly be grounds for a defamation case.
Also, some blogs only show the shallowness of the so called celebrity bloggers. I am not expecting them to sprout political, artisitic or whatever high class musing of things everytime. I admit that the blogs are for personal thoughts and feelings but I feel they are surprising shallow. I can understand that if they want to blog abt daily happenings, how they feel abt things (which I do also) but when it hits important stuff, I shudders and cringes at the shallowness of it. I am not implicating I am a 'deep' person but those views are left better to oneself and proclaiming to the big audience out there. Either blogging reached a low or the voyeuristic nature of singaporeans and people reached a new low?
All this make me feels a bit reluctant to blog anymore..
PS : Taken off from a particular blog, a comment which i feel similar to my sentiments and definitely breach the subject much better than me! Some sections are censored off not to reveal too much. If you recognise this is your comment and want me to take it off, please let me know =P
There's all this debate that since it's XXXX's own blog, it's her own right and freedom to publish what she wants. But therein lies the conundrum: since she has somewhat gained a measure of celebrity through a combination of injudicious writing and shameless narcissim (imho), and receives a considerable amount of visitors to her site whether out of curiosity or to get off, isn't it up to her to maintain a sense of responsibility (however alien) about what she writes?
True enough, it IS her own blog. she does have the freedom to blog what she really feels. No one is denying this. She is free to describe in lurid and tasteless detail XXXXX, however insulting or tactless it might be. She is obviously trying to live up to her trite proclaimations to 'be real' and whoever she was 3 years ago, even if it offends a part of the singaporean online community.
After all, she IS XXXX right? she has 250 people (or more?) to seek comfort and head-patting from. who gives a flying fuck about the rest eh? Apparently her XXXXX (high intelligence) did little in helping to ruminate on the repercussions of such statements. perhaps she thought being a da mei nu and overdosing on pinkness was enough to alleviate the impassioned reactions to her controversial post.
"With great power comes great responsibility" cliched, but it rings true. When elevated to a certain position (XXXXX, in question, arguably an A-list blogger, heh), the people around you start watching. Some will observe, some will react, some will emulate. The responses of the people who notice you are myriad, and it's impossible to list them all. It's merely social dynamics, and the reason why the term "social graces" was coined.from the time her blog received some extensive media publicity (in comparison to mine, which to date has only 300 visitors sadly), it stopped being private and a personal diary. it became a platform for expressing her views publicly.
If she really wanted to express herself freely, without regard and with all privacy, couldn't she have resorted to writing a personal diary or created a blog that you'd have to suscribe to or something? The possibilities are endless, if she possessed this mysterious quality of 'social graces'. one suspects her true intentions and realises her immense vanity, when you read the method and articulation of her writing. Then again, it might all be done on purpose just to generate more publicity for herself. Hence the adage, 'any publicity is good publicity'
Oh my god! The manipulative bxxxh!
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