Saw this over here at SoMi Speaks. SoMi wrote about a post she had read where the author challenged people to write interesting content by discussing a viewpoint counter to your typical opinion. She chose to write about reasons to hate blogging. Rather than choose another topic, I think I'll steal her idea completely:

Five things I hate about blogging:

1. Theme days. Wordless Wednesday. Half Naked Thursday. Thursday Thirteen. Haiku Friday. Sunday Stealing, Shitty Saturday, Moron Monday. Write on your blog because you have something you want to say. Write on your blog because you want to commit to creating content every day. Write for a real reason. Don't think to yourself "Oh, self, I haven't posted in a few days. I think I'll just stick up a photo and since it's Wednesday, I don't have to write a post and I can call it Wordless Wednesday." If you want to just put a photo up, put it up any day. You don't have to write anything if you don't want to. But following along with these theme days is just lazy blogging. Don't blog that day if you don't have anything to say.

   EDIT: Let me be clear that I'm talking about global theme days, not themes that you come up for your own specific blog. That's a huge difference. One is following and one is leading.

2. Cutesy Pseudonyms. Just like someone else, I despise cutesy pseudonyms on blogs. If you refer to your husband as "The Big Sir" and kids as "Little Creature" and "Princess from Space", I won't read you. Those types of names make your writing one-dimensional and make it very hard to see those people as anything other than characters in your shitty blog rather than full-fleshed three-dimensional people in your shitty life.

3. Twitter. Twitter has made people lazy about blogging. Rather than putting time and effort into their content, the idea is germinated in their brain and then ejaculated in 140 characters onto Twitter to never be seen again. The advent of Twitter has also reduced commenting, which, in my opinion, reduces the feeling of community that blogging provides. I routinely get someone who comments on my post on Twitter rather than ON THE FUCKING POST or who replies to my comment on their post via Twitter.

4. Blogs on Blogspot. Blogger's comment system sucks. You don't have control over your content, including images you upload. If you're serious about your blog, spend the five fucking dollars it would take to reserve a domain name or even go over to Wordpress.com for free. Every blog I see that's at http://Fuckinglazyblogger.blogspot.com I discount its value, even if its only marginally. If you don't take it seriously, why should I waste my time reading your blog?

5. Product Review Sites With the exception of very few review sites, most sites will simply post a referral link to the product with scant information about the quality or even the function of said product. If you're going to do a review, actually review the product. Provide useful information about the product. Personal experiences with the item. Cogent details on why the product is or is not worth the purchase. If I'm searching for info on a product, and I see a site that just links to the product with a photo and maybe a rating or a one-line review, I usually hunt down the person who runs the site and throw hot pokers at their face.

Those are just five things that I hate about blogging. What do you hate?