As a big fan of blogs, I routinely look for subjects that I find interesting, and I often discover that bloggers have more information or new information quicker than a lot of established news sites.
Blog ideas abound on the information superhighway these days, but I am often amazed at some of the people that get on blogging sites just to argue with other users.
A friend of mine had a blogging site that had steady and regular visitors. Her blog idea was a relatively simple one. It looked at political issues as a conservative American, and offered opinions on them from a conservative point of view.
I was not really into it, as I tend to be more moderate when it comes to politics, but as a courtesy, which is to say as a friend, I agreed to read some of her blog ideas and give her some feedback.
What struck me most was the number of liberal-minded visitors that jumped on every topic that she addressed and made derisive comments. Some of the posts were intelligent arguments with valid points, but many of them seemed to demonize this poor woman, simply because her blog ideas suggested that she had a different political ideology than they did.
I decided to do a little investigating, so I looked at a site where the blog ideas were more liberal, and numerous posts were from conservative readers that railed against the blogger like he was the devil incarnate.
I had always been told that the best way to avoid an argument was not to talk about politics or religion, but I could not understand why someone would bother reading a blog just to argue an opposing point of view.
Perhaps I was a bit naive in my assumption that those of us who read blogs on a regular basis did so because they supported the blog ideas and wanted to offer their own polite opinions and takes on the topics.
I began to realize that the blog ideas that I found particularly interesting were more neutral, and less likely to draw people that jump on board just to criticize.
In other words, I don't think there are many people out there that are so strongly anti-opera that they are going to take the time to get on a blog and start ripping the blogger or the posters to shreds.
In the end, I suppose that we all are entitled to our own opinions, and most bloggers are just happy that their blog ideas are generating interest. I am just not sure what such people are trying to accomplish by getting on those sites to argue. Do they really think that they are going to change anybody's mind?