i can’t really think of anything to write about today but i’ve been trying to push myself to go and pay attention to the blogging world around me and i’m visiting a lot of new sites.

when i visit a new blog i always look at the layout, then i read the blogger’s “about” section, then i read one or two blogs on their main page. that’s my normal routine when visiting a blog, as i mentioned before.

a lot of times i find things that really irk me about blogs. everyone has their own pet peeves about the web. most things don’t bug me, i’ll still read a blog even if there are ads or if the person blogs on blogger, but there are some things that just drive me nuts and i wish i could poke the blogger and say hey that’s just really annoying.

on daydreamz.net we had a thread about this but i thought i would share what bugs me with my blog as well.

• music that plays when you load the site. UGH! i’ve hated this sort of thing since i started using the internet. its cool that you want to share your music with us but ffs please make it so it does not play as soon as you enter the page. give us the option to turn it on if we want but keep it off otherwise. and PLEASE do not put the music player at the very bottom of the page. that is so completely annoying to first be blasted with music and then have to hunt around to find the player.

• those damn social bar things. why are you people putting these on your blog?? sure they are fine if you are on a social networking site and need to be able to im members or something but otherwise? not cool, and very annoying. i don’t even like those bars on social networking sites to be honest.

• tiny font, font almost the same colour as the background of the page, bolding and italicizing every other frigging word. these three things will keep me from reading even one sentence of your blog. also blinking text. who decided this was cool again?

• teen blogs that glorify drinking/partying/being a general dumb ass. the internet could use a bit more intelligence.

anyway i’m done bitching, but if you see me lurking around your blog or possibly commenting its because i’m trying to be more social. i tend to get all locked up in my little safe cubby hole and i never really branch out and interact with people.