Blogging: a form of verbal diarrhoea ?

A friend once told me that blogging is a bad case of "verbal diarrhoea". According to this friend, blogging is like having ingested something very bad and wanting to discharge it most urgently, but being unable to do so in a appropriate setting. Fortunately for the blogger, the internet is like a big community toilet, and is a perfect place (for the blogger) to let it all come out.

I believed that, i.e., blogging was verbal diarrhoea.

I may have changed my mind, after reading some blogs, especially those written by people who are not allowed to "poop in a regular toilet". This group of bloggers see social injustice, want to right the wrong, but are rendered helpless because of the layers upon layers of bureaucratic red tapes they encounter. This group also comprises conscientious ordinary citizens who wish to exercise civil disobedience but are threatened with the potential charge of sedition. To this group of civic minded individuals, blogging seems like the only avenue with which to voice their concerns, and to hope against hope that someone would actually listen (and, hopefully, hear) and do something.

Well, I still think blogging is a form of verbal diarrhoea. What changed is how I now view the potential effect of this diarrhoea on those around. I used to think that it was just verbal fecal waste - plain and simple. I now think it is a necessary discharge, and it, perhaps because of the awful stink, gets the needed attention.

I have not reached diarrhoea stage yet. I do not have a cause to champion, or an axe to grind, or an injustice to make just. I have no message to get across.

Fear not, readers, for my poop does not stink. I am just pretending that I am a "blogger", whatever a "blogger" may be.

Till next time.