Continued from last week . . .
4. Rant bloggers
Your girlfriend dumped you. Your best friend stole your wallet. Your mom likes your younger sister better. Your cousin is marrying an idiot. Your girlfriend cheated on you with your cousin. Your dad started dating your girlfriend and now she's your mom.
We get it. Life sucks. You need a place to vent -- somewhere to go where everybody knows your name . . . However, do we care?
Not really. We just think it's funny.
Upside: These guys (mostly guys, a few girls) complain enough to make any of us feel better. Also, out of the 5 types of bloggers, these guys put BY FAR the least amount of effort into their blogs. I'm personally surprised at times that they don't just save themselves the effort and copy long strings of profanity to their pages.
Downside: Their strength is their weakness. THEY COMPLAIN A LOT! How annoying this pessimism gets depends on how seriously they take themselves. A blogger willing to laugh at the suckiness of life is cool. A bitter one is not.
5. Get-rich-quick
Internet, meet your next millionaires. These bloggers have an idea: whether it's to sell online magazine subscriptions, promote an obscure search engine, run up thousands in profit from Google Adsense revenue (FAT CHANCE!) or even selling a book about how to get rich, these bloggers have the world, the internet, and their chumps . . . er, consumers figured out.
Upside: If you do succeed with this type of blogging, congradulations. You've beaten the system.
Downside: Blogs that generate content solely to make money -- without trying to make content that is also worth reading -- suck.
Sorry, but, to quote a cliche, "THERE AIN'T NO FREE LUNCH"
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