I keep on blogging because, compared to tweeting for thousands of followers or posting to hundreds of Facebook friends, the single-digit pageviews my blog now attracts are a paradoxically private way to express myself.
Yep, call me a Gen-X dinosaur, but I'm sticking with my blog, too. ("I'm so 2008; I'm so 2000 and late.") To me, prose is still more powerful and precise than photo or video. Most times I don't even add photos to my posts. Why bother? It's not my content; my value added is the written word.
That said, the format of this blog is mainly re-posts, a kind of Twitter without the character limit. This blog is basically my personal filing cabinet of opinions and what's most important in world events... minus the Kardashians, naturally.
Believe it or not, I get anywhere from 300 to 900 pageviews a day, (over 200,000 overall), and that's without banners, monetization, SEO, linking to other blogs, or otherwise trying to promote it. Most of my acquaintances don't even know I have a blog. Those pageviews are simply because I've got 2,613 posts and counting, some of them on arcane or abstruse topics, and so I get Google's respect.
At any rate, like they say, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, so in honor of all you Millennials with yer Instagrams, enjoy this collection of cheesy, awkward, terrible and obnoxious selfies!
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| I'm shocked that Geraldo, after decades as a distinguished TV journalist, went in for this venal self-promotion thing on social networks like the kids. |
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| Actually she still looks really f-able. |
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| Inappropriate? I'm on the fence. |
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| Is this what passes for self-expression nowadays? |
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| "These flames make my teeth look really sparkly." |
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| Don't worry, I think it's really Tyler Perry in there, acting. |
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| Good thought, bad timing. |
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| ??? |
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| "Well, I'm the only one here so you must be talkin' to me!" |
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| Dude, I tried, but enlarging this photo didn't help. |
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| And this concludes my gettin' with the times. |
By Mel Campbell
July 16, 2014 | Guardian
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