To Friends, Family, and You

I’ve learned a few things recently in relation to this blog posting I do. First, I actually do have readers. This has become evident because of the reaction to the personal post I did a few days ago AND from actual discussion with actual people about it. And that’s really good. My goal isn’t to strive for attention, but to at least put opinions out there in a hopefully constructive manner and instigate some discussion on the matter.

THAT SAID… There’s one area in which my audience lacks which depresses me a bit. And I’m not blaming anyone in particular. It’s a small audience with a very niche appeal. I can’t imagine everyone on the internet is excited about my personal life or, indeed, the mad ravings of my opinionated rants on videogames, movies, TV, or entertainment in general. I mean, it’s the internet. Everyone is waving banners all over the place and you have to either do something entirely wacky and preposterous for your banner to stand out or you have to have enough money/support from people with money to back it up. Unfortunately, I’m not in the latter camp and the former camp is hard to pull off well. Making it really hard to get this a wider audience.

The issue is both a lack of audience and a lack of audience interaction. I initially posted this for you guy to go one-on-many with me where I post issues in various topics ranging from my life, gaming, politics, work related nonsense, movies, and just anything in general really. Yet 9 months in, and I’ve yet to get a single comment or response to anything I’ve posted either here or on facebook. I’m not mad, but I’m beginning to feel like the initial premise of this is becoming lost and I’m just talking to a wall. By that, I mean while I know there’s SOMEONE reading these, it’s hard to really feel that way when I don’t get any feedback. Even if it’s not leading into a discussion, just a simple “cool story bro” as shallow as that sounds, would still give me an impression that, “hey, what I’m writing is good or worthwhile” or a “well, that didn’t work so well, let’s change this for next time.”

Then there’s just the lack of an audience in general. This can also be easily aided by you guys. Whether you like what I say or not, you might know someone who’d be interested in reading what I have to say or maybe even want to engage in the discussion with me. In that case, I encourage you to like, share, subscribe, and comment on anything I’ve posted. Even if I can get just handful of people reading, watching, and discussing what I’m doing here, that’s be a great start and I’d love to see you guys conversing amongst yourselves about what goes on here.

Now, here’s a message to close friends and family about the stuff I post. Ahem… DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT go to my parents about stuff I post here on this blog. I get that I post personal stuff and they may or may not be involved. And I get that you might worry about what I say or worry about how what’s going on might affect them. I totally understand and I appreciate your concern on all those matters. But the reason I don’t want you to call the parents is because while I might be comfortable talking about personal family stuff here in public forum, they may not be, at least not as quick as myself.

As is the case with my post about my brother a few days back. I posted it because I was instigating discussion on my behalf. I was working out problems in a way that I prefer doing and am comfortable with. And I was (mostly) calling out my brother on a public space to push him into doing the right thing and also to inform people that he’s NOT doing a right thing and you shouldn’t be aiding what is essentially a wanted criminal at the moment or you’ll go to jail for doing so. If I post other content like that in the future, I repeat, DO NOT contact the parents about it. They’ll contact you if they’re ready to talk about it. If you have questions or want to talk to someone, hey, I’ve already instigated the discussion here. You can talk to me about it. Don’t want to? Then I suppose you should just not say anything then. I ask mostly for their peace of mind, more than anything. So do me that one favor, okay?

Again, after all is said and done, I’m not mad at anyone for anything listed above. You’re all good people, as far as I know, and I would love to discuss whatever we bring up here as friends, family, and colleagues. Let’s keep all this in mind going forward towards the holidays and to the upcoming year. Have a good day and see ya next time.