Blogging Readers Deserve Respect

Blogs have been a fantastic tool to help every common person share his experiences and opinions through writing to a vast audience. But I write here discussing a very different observation which might not find many takers but still has been in my mind for quite a while.

It hurts me to read a half baked blog where the writer's sole purpose seems to attractive comments from followers. I agree that all cannot be good writers and, yes, they do have every right to express themselves in whatever way they can. But the least any writer can do is spend some time on his thoughts, explore the possibilities and various angles of his imagination and present them in his/her write-up in a coherent manner. Its so common to see blogs with decent content but all thoughts mixed up, absolute lack of clarity and poor formatting. These are the kind of blogs which make the reader wonder why he/she even cared to read. Such a feeling is the result of a writer not putting his heart in the writings and taking it too casually to even care for a second look at the draft. Is this what the readers deserve?

I believe that the problem is slightly wider is scope. In the Facebook and Twitter age, there is a mania of people wishing to be cyber celebrities by attracting numerous comments and likes. What they post, how they post has hardly any relevance left. Some people can argue that this is true freedom of expression, but to me, it often appears a blatant disregard for other's time and sensitivity in a mindless pursuit of being more cyber popular. May be the world has changed and I am from old school of thought, but still, perhaps the reader, the follower deserves a better approach.