Being interesting, funny, pertinent and/or useful isn’t easy. Doing it face to face in conversation isn’t easy but even more troublesome through a blog. We pride ourselves on the “I have a blog” statement but are cloaked in shame at the idea, wait reality, that nobody participates in it. A blog that nobody interacts with is masturbation. It makes us publishers feel great, but it doesn’t achieve anything. There are no other parties sharing our satisfaction by debating, arguing, agreeing or commenting on our words. Even worse are the observers of our masturbation. Those who come by to watch but refuse to join in.

That being said blogging is much like dating in that we put ourselves out there, we solicit our words to the world in hope that somebody will be attracted enough to them to respond. But hundreds of thousands of blogs remain in the singles end of the pool. Somehow the masses of the world are too shy to come say hello and we have exhausted our resources in trying to attract them. All we have now is a dwindling will to keep speaking our words and the false notion that in the end it is for ourselves anyway - which we all know is a joke. Well however noble that may be, it is still masturbation and the catholic Internet G-ds are frowning on you.

“If you build it they will come” is not true in this arena, we have built yet they still are nowhere around. So all I can offer is pride in masturbation. Know that it is better then the only alternative… abstinence. Keep hope that somebody will say anything someday. Enjoy the satisfaction of a content harvester republishing your post and getting a ping back in your comments, because that’s all you have. Just know that one of these days that lucky someone will come along and say hello.